FLIP, to shoot.
FLOOR, to knock down any one, either for the purpose of robbery, or to effect your escape, is termed flooring him.
FLOOR’D, a person who is so drunk, as to be incapable of standing, is said to be floor’d.
FLUE-FAKER, a chimney-sweeper.
FLY, vigilant; suspicious; cunning; not easily robbed or duped; a shopkeeper or person of this description, is called a fly cove, or a leary cove; on other occasions fly is synonymous with flash or leary, as, I’m fly to you, I was put flash to him, &c.
FLY THE MAGS, to gamble, by tossing up halfpence.
FOGLE, a silk-handkerchief.
FORKS, the two fore-fingers of the hand; to put your forks down, is to pick a pocket.
FOSS, or PHOS, a phosphorus bottle used by cracksmen to obtain a light.
FRISK, to search; to frisk a cly, is to empty a pocket of its contents; to stand frisk, is to stand search.