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swell mob

noun

Definitions

  1. Well-dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively.

    • But some of the Swell Mob, on the occasion of this Derby that I refer to, so far kiddied us as to hire a horse and shay; start away from London by Whitechapel, and miles round; come into Epsom from the opposite direction; […]

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