subs. (common).—See quot. TO GIVE KENNEDY = to lay in with a poker.

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  1864.  Athenæum, 29 Oct., p. 559. St. Giles’s perpetuates the memory of a … man … who was killed by a poker by calling that instrument a KENNEDY.

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  1887.  W. E. HENLEY, Villon’s Good-Night.

        Paste ’em, and larrup ’em, and lamm!
GIVE KENNEDY, and make ’em crawl!

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