subs. (old).—A pickpocket who confined his operations to pocket-books. [From DUMMY (q.v.) = a pocket book + HUNTER.]

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  1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.

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  1834.  W. H. AINSWORTH, Rookwood, ‘Jenny Juniper’s Chaunt’ [ed. 1884], p. 80.

        No DUMMY HUNTER had forks so fly,
No knuckler so deftly could fake a cly.

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  1843.  Punch, vol. IV., p. 129.

        While ears are cramm’d with humbug, boys!
  The DUMMY-HUNTERS ply
An easy trade.

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