subs. (common).—1. A short-tailed coat; a jacket: also BUM- (or ARSE-) PERISHER.
2. (common).—A consummation; an extreme.
1888. BOLDREWOOD, Robbery under Arms, xli. Then he most times went in an awful PERISHER—took a month to it, and was never sober day or night the whole time.
1890. Licensed Victuallers’ Gazette, 7 Nov. He went in a PERISHER last night, laying against Sir Tatton Sykes for the Derby with a half-a-dozen thousand pound notes in his hands, all of which he will lose.
