Gapped, ppl. adj. (old).—Worsted; floored (q.v. for synonyms).
1753. Richardson, Sir Chas. Grandison. I will never meet at hard-edge with her; if I did … I should be confoundedly gapped.
Gap-Stopper, subs. (old).—1. A whoremaster. For synonyms, see Molrower.
2. (venery).—The penis. [Gap = female pudendum]. For synonyms, see Creamstick and Prick.
Gar. See by gar!
Garble, to garble the coinage, verb. phr. (old).—See quot. [Garble = to pick and choose.]
1875. Jevons, Money, etc., p. 81. A practice amongst money-lenders of picking out the newest coins of full weight for export or re-melting, and passing the light ones into circulation.
Garden, subs. (various).—1. (greengrocers’, fruiterers’, etc.) = Covent Garden Market; 2. (theatrical) = Covent Garden Theatre; 3. (diamond merchants’) = Hatton Garden. Cf., House, Lane, etc.
[The Garden (= Covent Garden) was frequently used for the whole neighbourhood, which was notorious as a place of strumpets and stews. Thus, Garden-house = a brothel; Garden-goddess = a woman of pleasure; Garden-gout = the pox or clap; Garden-whore = a low prostitute, etc.]
1733. Bailey, Erasmus. When young men by whoring, as it commonly falls out, get the pox, which, by the way of extenuation, they call the Common Garden-gout.