"badge-cove" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: badge-coves [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} badge-cove (plural badge-coves)
  1. (archaic, thieves' cant) A parish pensioner. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-badge-cove-en-noun-g7Kz1Gcf Categories (other): English Thieves' Cant
  2. (obsolete) A licensed (badged) beggar. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-badge-cove-en-noun-MgzRXWil
  3. (Polari) An old person; a senior citizen. Tags: Polari Categories (topical): People Synonyms (old person): geriatric
    Sense id: en-badge-cove-en-noun-3oZIJf0Z Disambiguation of People: 29 21 50 Categories (other): Polari, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 21 67 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 21 16 63 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 18 16 66 Disambiguation of 'old person': 2 0 98
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: oldster, senior citizen, old person

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for badge-cove meaning in English (2.0kB)

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