Originally published 1905-08-05
(I don’t 100% get this one tbh)
4 points
Looks like there’s a generic sense of “Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.”, but even more relevant here it can mean “A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.”
4 points
Looks like that horse racing use was also interestingly closer to the original use of the word. Fun that it was a thieves’ cant as well.
