faggot brief

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Noun[edit]

faggot brief (plural faggot briefs)

  1. (obsolete, slang) A bundle of worthless papers tied up with red tape, carried by unemployed barristers in the back rows of the courts to simulate briefs.

References[edit]

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary