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foot-scamp

foot-scamp noun: a common thief who escapes on foot.

Noun

foot-scamp (plural foot-scamps)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) A common thief who escapes on foot.
    • "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.1951, Odell Shepard, Willard Shepard, Jenkins Ear, page 428

Forms of foot-scamp

pluralfoot-scamps

Questions about foot-scamp

What does foot-scamp mean?
Foot-scamp means a common thief who escapes on foot.
What part of speech is foot-scamp?
Foot-scamp is a noun.
What is the plural of foot-scamp?
The plural of foot-scamp is foot-scamps.

Words near foot-scamp in the dictionary

  1. foot-pound-seconds
  2. foot-poundal
  3. foot-poundals
  4. foot-pounds
  5. foot-rule
  6. foot-scamp
  7. foot-scamps
  8. foot-slog
  9. foot-stalk
  10. foot-stalks
  11. foot-stool

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