CLY-FAKER, a pickpocket.
COACH-WHEEL, a dollar or crown-piece.
COME. A thief observing any article in a shop, or other situation, which he conceives may be easily purloined, will say to his accomplice, I think there is so and so to come.
COME IT, to divulge a secret; to tell any thing of one party to another; they say of a thief who has turned evidence against his accomplices, that he is coming all he knows, or that he comes it as strong as a horse.
COME TO THE HEATH, a phrase signifying to pay or give money, and synonymous with Tipping, from which word it takes its rise, there being a place called Tiptree Heath, I believe, in the County of Essex.
COME TO THE MARK, to abide strictly by any contract previously made; to perform your part manfully in any exploit or enterprise you engage in; or to offer me what I consider a fair price for any article in question.
CONCERNED. In using many cant words, the lovers of flash, by way of variation, adopt this term, for an illustration of which, see [Bolt-in-Tun], [Alderman Lushington], [Mr. Palmer], &c.
CONK, the nose.
CONK, a thief who impeaches his accomplices; a spy; informer, or tell-tale. See [Nose], and [Wear it].
COVE, the master of a house or shop, is called the Cove; on other occasions, when joined to particular words, as a cross-cove, a flash-cove, a leary-cove, &c., it simply implies a man of those several descriptions; sometimes, in speaking of any third person, whose name you are either ignorant of, or don’t wish to mention, the word cove is adopted by way of emphasis, as may be seen under the word [Awake].