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单词 to give gammon
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to give (a person) gammon
a. to give (a person) gammon: to help (a thief) by distracting a victim while a crime is committed. Also to stand gammon in the same sense. Cf. sense A. 1.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > picking pockets > pick pockets [verb (transitive)] > distract from or screen pickpocket
stall1592
to give (a person) gammon1717
cover1819
1717Stood gammon [see sense A. 1].
1720 A. Smith Compl. Hist. Lives & Robberies Highway-men (ed. 5) III. 358 Give me Gammon. That is, to side, shoulder, or stand close to a Man, or a Woman, whilst another picks his, or her Pocket.
1821 Life D. Haggart 68 I whidded to the Doctor, and he gave me gammon.
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