Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Brown-papermen
subs. phr. (thieves’).—See quot.
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1851. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, I. 502. But the Little Nick is what we call only BROWN-PAPERMEN, low gamblers—playing for pence, and Is… being a great go.
