or squeeze, subs. (old).—1.  The neck (GROSE and VAUX). Also (2) = the hangman’s noose.

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  c. 1816.  Old Song, ‘The Night before Larry Was Stretched’ [FARMER, Musa Pedestris (1896), 79].

        For Larry was always the lad,
    When a friend was condemn’d to the SQUEEZER,
But he’d pawn all the togs that he had,
    Just to help the poor boy to a sneezer.

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  c. 1864.  VANCE, The Chickaleary Cove. The stock around my SQUEEZE a guiver colour see.

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  1887.  W. E. HENLEY, Villon’s Straight Tip to all Cross Coves.

          Until the SQUEEZER nips your scrag,
Booze and the blowens cop the lot.

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  3.  (American).—In pl. = playing cards with the values marked in the top left hand margins. Also SQUEEZE, verb., see quot.

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  1896.  LILLARD, Poker Stories, 23. Gen. Schenck, like all great poker players, used to SQUEEZE his hand, that is, arrange them so that only the indicators at the corners were visible.

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