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foot-scamps

foot-scamps is the plural of foot-scamp.

Meaning of foot-scamp

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

Questions about foot-scamps

What is foot-scamps the plural of?
Foot-scamps is the plural of foot-scamp.

Words near foot-scamps in the dictionary

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

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