foot-scamp

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English[edit]

Noun[edit]

foot-scamp (plural foot-scamps)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A common thief who escapes on foot.
    • 1951, Odell Shepard, Willard Shepard, Jenkins Ear, page 428:
      "They" were the nickers and running rumblers and cock-a-brasses and blue-pigeon-flyers and foot-scamps and sharps and flash boys of London.

References[edit]

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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