| 单词 | pocketbook dropping |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspocketbook dropping pocketbook dropping n. now historical and rare the confidence trick of dropping a wallet with the hope of making money from a gullible person by substituting a wallet of counterfeit money, or being paid a ‘reward’. ΚΠ 1852 Hunt's Merchants' Mag. Aug. 215 Their principles are ancient; their whole system is but pocketbook dropping, or thimble-rigging on an enlarged scale, with fresh apparatus. 1889 Salem (Ohio) Daily News 21 Mar. A system of ‘sharp practice’ which is only one degree less rascally than pocket-book dropping and patent-safe swindling. 2003 J. W. Frick Theatre, Culture & Temperance Reform 19th-Cent. Amer. ii. 53 Stabbings, muggings, dognapping, purse snatching, watch-stuffing, pickpocketing and ‘pocketbook dropping’ were common occurrences on city streets. < as lemmas |
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