tooler
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
tooler (plural toolers)
- A stonemason's chisel.
- One who tools leather.
- A criminal who defrauds a fruit machine and steals the money inside.
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A pickpocket.
- 1970, Kellow Chesney, The Anti-society: An Account of the Victorian Underworld (page 168)
- Pickpockets took to housebreaking and housebreakers joined gangs of street thieves; cracksmen's mistresses were often toolers and shoplifters.
- 2010, Bryce Courtenay, The Potato Factory (volume 1, page 103)
- A tooler was the most elite of the pickpockets, a planner and plotter, a boy with brains, daring and courage. At any one time Ikey hoped for four toolers in the making and two fully blown and working at the top of their trade.
- 1970, Kellow Chesney, The Anti-society: An Account of the Victorian Underworld (page 168)
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References[edit]
- (pickpocket): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary