coffin dodger

Definitions

1. 1

   An elderly person, a person close to death, or good at avoiding death.

   • That if parents don't look after their kids some long box makers are likely to be busy soon. That if after the discharge of buckshot these urchin's escape the "O.K" man will have to have another look out for the coffin-dodgers.
   • "Captain Cook" tells a tale of sin and deceit :- Have you ever heard of Harry, the Coffin Dodger, champion leg-puller of the Ultimo depot ?
2. 2

   An alcoholic drink, sometimes drunk as a hangover "cure".

   • All sorts came to see Linda, whose soulful innocence was as refreshing as a gin cocktail or a coffin-dodger the next morning, when one has a tongue like the corporation street brush and a mouth in semblance, to the bottom of a parrot cage.
   • PICKUP. SIR JOHN BARLEYCORN. He is a Dispenser of everything WET, and a Vendor of COFFIN-DODGERS.

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