[Origin unknown; perh. two distinct words.]

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  † 1.  slang. A thief. Obs.–0

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1610.  Rowlands, Martin Mark-all. A Flicke [printed Afflicke], a Theefe.

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  2.  dial. and vulgar. (See quots.)

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1883.  Punch, 28 July, 38/1, ‘’Arry at the Royal Evening Fete.’

        You ’ll ’ave ’eard of the Fisheries, CHARLIE, the Kensington Show. Well, larst night,
They ’d a Feet in these Gardens, old flick, as was somethink too awfully quite.

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1888.  Elworthy, W. Somerset Word-bk., Flick, a very familiar epithet—as ‘Come on, old flick.’

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