CHEESE THAT. See [Stow that].
CHINA STREET, a cant name for Bow Street, Covent Garden.
CHIV, a knife; to chiv a person is to stab or cut him with a knife.
CHRISTEN, obliterating the name and number on the movement of a stolen watch; or the crest, cipher, &c., on articles of plate, and getting others engraved, so as to prevent their being identified, is termed having them bishop’d or christen’d.
CHUM, a fellow prisoner in a jail, hulk, &c.; so there are new chums and old chums, as they happen to have been a short or a long time in confinement.
CHURY, a knife.
CLEANED OUT, said of a gambler who has lost his last stake at play; also, of a flat who has been stript of all his money by a coalition of sharps.
CLOUT, a handkerchief of any kind.
CLOUTING, the practice of picking pockets exclusively of handkerchiefs.
CLY, a pocket.