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Haymarket Hectors

Haymarket Hectors is the plural of Haymarket Hector.

Meaning of Haymarket Hector

Noun

Haymarket Hector (plural Haymarket Hectors)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) A thug, bully or pimp inhabiting the London neighbourhood of Leicester Square and the Haymarket.
    • You cannot have forgotten that when the late King took offence at an expression of Sir John Coventry's, he employed O'Brian, Sir Thomas Sands, and some other Haymarket Hectors, to cut off Sir John's nose as he returned home at night.1899, Horace Smith, Walter Colyton: A Tale of 1688, page 121

Questions about Haymarket Hectors

What is Haymarket Hectors the plural of?
Haymarket Hectors is the plural of Haymarket Hector.

Words near Haymarket Hectors in the dictionary

  1. Hayman Island
  2. Haymanot
  3. Haymans
  4. haymarket
  5. Haymarket Hector
  6. Haymarket Hectors
  7. Haymarket ware
  8. haymarkets
  9. Haymes
  10. haymishe
  11. Haymon

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