See CARRY THE STICK, adding quot. infra.
1887. Daily Chronicle, 18 Nov. A witness at the East End inquest yesterday alluded to ‘TRIPPERS-UP,’ as though everyone should know them as they would bakers, butchers, grocers, or other tradesmen. To the Coroner’s perplexed question, ‘What is that?’ Inspector Read answered: ‘A man who TRIPS you up and robs you. If you make a noise they jump on you.’
