Floster, subs. (common).—A mixed drink: sherry, noyau, peach-leaves, lemon, sugar, ice, and soda-water. Cf., Flesh-and-blood.
Flouch. To fall (or go), flouch (or floush), verb. phr. (colloquial).—To come to pieces; to sag suddenly on the removal of a restraining influence: as a pair of stays.
1819. Moore, Tom Crib, p. 13. Old Georgy went floush, and his backers look’d shy.
Flounce, verb. (colloquial).—To move with violence, and (generally) in anger. Said of women, for whom such motion is, or rather was, inseparable from a great flourishing of flounces.
Flounder, subs. (riverside thieves’).—1. A drowned corpse. Cf., Dab, and for synonyms, see Stiff. [[33]]
2. (Stock Exchange).—To sell, and afterwards re-purchase a stock, or vice versâ.
1889. Echo, 1 Feb. A third expedient offers itself—namely, to turn round and buy; but this operation goes by the name of ‘floundering’ especially when the speculator loses both ways.
Flounder-and-Dab, subs. phr. (rhyming).—A cab. For synonyms, see Growler.
Flour, subs. (American).—Money. For synonyms, see Actual and Gilt.
Flourish, subs. (venery).—Coition in a hurry; flyer (q.v.); a fast-fuck (q.v.). Also verbally. For synonyms see Greens and Ride.