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Fullam

//ˈfʊləm// name, noun, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A false die; a die intentionally loaded, or unevenly weighted, so that it always rolls a specific number. UK, archaic, slang

    "Captaine, you perceiue how neere both of vs are driuen, the dice of late are growen as melancholy as a dog, high men and low men both prosper alike, langrets, fullams, and all the whole fellowshippe of them will not affoord a man his dinner, some other means must be inuented to preuent imminent extremitie."

  2. 2
    A sham; a hoax; a make-believe. UK, archaic, broadly, colloquial

Etymology

From Fulham, a London suburb, which during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I was the most notorious place for blacklegs in all of England. Loaded dice were supposed to have been chiefly made there.

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