subs. (thieves’).—A swindler who lets money drop before some ‘flat,’ and, offering to share it with him, passes off counterfeit coin in return for good ‘change.’
1748. SMOLLETT, Roderick Random, xv. A rascally MONEY-DROPPER.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
1811. GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
