subs. (thieves’).—A prison: also STIRABEN (gypsy).
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, I. 469. I was in Brummagen, and was seven days in the new STIR.
1897. MARSHALL, Pomes, 123. I didn’t hear the reason why the lad was booked for STIR.
1901. Referee, 28 April, 9, 3. Mr. Patrick M’Hugh, M.P. for North Leitrim, has gone to STIR for six months for a seditious libel.
2. (common).—A crowd; a PUSH (q.v.).
TO HAVE PLENTY TO STIR ON, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To be wealthy.
See STUMPS.
