white choker

English

Etymology

From the article of clothing.

Noun

white choker (plural white chokers)

1. (thieves' cant, obsolete) A clergyman.
   • 1862, Henry Mayhew, The London Underworld In The Victorian Period:

     We go in more for tradesmen, shopboys, commercial travellers, and that sort, and men who are a little screwy, and although we musn't mention it, we hooks a white choker now and then, coming from Exeter Hall.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary