See shab on Wiktionary
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"text": "[…] but when that [money] was gone, and he had not as much ground, that he could call his own, as would sod a lark, they soon shabbed him off.",
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"ref": "1840, John Pendleton Kennedy, Quodlibet: Containing Some Annals Thereof ..., page 61:",
"text": "I hold the people in too much esteem, to shab them off with any thing of a secondary quality, whilst Providence has blessed me with the means of providing them the best.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To move (something, away or out of the way), to drive off."
],
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"(obsolete, UK, dialect) To move (something, away or out of the way), to drive off."
],
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"UK",
"dialectal",
"obsolete"
]
},
{
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"British English",
"English criminal slang",
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Crime"
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"ref": "1731, The Windsor Medley: Being a Choice Collection of Several Curious and Valuable Pieces in Prose and Verse: that Were Handed about in Print and Manuscript, During the Stay of the Court at Windsor-Castle Last Summer. ..., page 24:",
"text": "[…] and so the fat Parson shabb'd off,[…]",
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"ref": "2017 February 23, Jake Arnott, The Fatal Tree, Sceptre, →ISBN:",
"text": "We bided a moment as the push we were part of moved forward and took the opportunity to slip deftly back through it, thus shabbing off from our prey.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To skulk or sneak away."
],
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"criminal",
"criminal"
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"skulk",
"skulk"
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[
"sneak",
"sneak"
]
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"(obsolete outside historical fiction, UK, criminal slang) To skulk or sneak away."
],
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"ipa": "/ʃæb/"
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"word": "shab"
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