frisk someone's cly

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frisk someone's cly (third-person singular simple present frisks someone's cly, present participle frisking someone's cly, simple past and past participle frisked someone's cly)

  1. (thieves' cant, obsolete) To steal from someone's pocket.
    • 1959, Frank Clune, Murders on Maunga-tapu, page 10:
      To steal a housewife's purse might mean that her children would have to go hungry; but what of that, if the flash young “dip” could gain admiration from his mates by boasting that he had “frisked a judy's cly and lifted a skinful of bunce”?

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary