or corner-cove, subs. (common).—1. A loafer; literally a lounger at corners.
1851. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, IV., 445. I mean by CORNER-COVES them sort of men who is always a standing at the corners of the streets and chaffing respectable folks a-passing by!
1885. Chambers’s Journal, Feb. 28, p. 136. Curley Bond was well known in the district as a loafer and CORNER-MAN.
2. (music hall).—The ‘Bones’ and ‘Tambourine’ in a band of negro minstrels.
