white choker

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From the article of clothing.

Noun[edit]

white choker (plural white chokers)

  1. (thieves' cant, obsolete) A clergyman.
    • 1862, Henry Mayhew, The London Underworld In The Victorian Period:
      We go in more for tradesmen, shopboys, commercial travellers, and that sort, and men who are a little screwy, and although we musn't mention it, we hooks a white choker now and then, coming from Exeter Hall.

References[edit]

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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