Foot-scamp

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A common thief who escapes on foot. UK, obsolete, slang

    ""They" were the nickers and running rumblers and cock-a-brasses and blue-pigeon-flyers and foot-scamps and sharps and flash boys of London."

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""They" were the nickers and running rumblers and cock-a-brasses and blue-pigeon-flyers and foot-scamps and sharps and flash boys of London."

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