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ring-dropping
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Noun
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ring
-
dropping
(
uncountable
)
(
historical
)
A form of
fraud
in which a
ring
or other
spurious
article
is supposed to be found just in front of the
mark
, who is tempted to buy it at a fraction of its claimed value.
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John Camden Hotten (
1873
)
The Slang Dictionary
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