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dimber damber

noun

Definitions

  1. The leader of a group of thieves or vagrants.

    • Dick Turpin must be one of us. He shall be our dimber damber.
    • Smasher has the ear of every dimber damber in the city.

  2. Alternative form of dimber damber.

    • "No, no refusal," exclaimed a chorus of voices. "Dick Turpin must be one of us. He shall be our Dimber Damber."
    • By the Rom-pad maundred none In quarrons both for stamp and bone, Like my Clapperdogeon! Dimber Damber fare thee well, Pallyards all thou didst excel;
    • Sung on the electing of a new Dimber Damber, or King of the Gypsies,

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA