dimber damber
(obsolete, UK, thieves) The leader of a group of thieves or vagrants.
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(obsolete, UK, thieves) The leader of a group of thieves or vagrants.
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(obsolete, UK, thieves) A rascal; a dishonest person; a man belonging to a criminal gang.
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(obsolete, UK, thieves) Pretty; neat.
- dimber73%
18th-century British thieves' cant — from Romani 'dimber' (fine, handsome). Used in flash vocabulary to describe a person or thing of admirable quality; the cant equivalent of 'top-notch.' Fell out of use after the 1800s but survives in historical crime fiction and slang dictionaries.
- dimber mort70%
(archaic, UK, thieves) A pretty girl.
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(obsolete, UK, thieves) A gentleman.