"dimber damber" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "dimber dambers",
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        "plural"
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      "expansion": "dimber damber (plural dimber dambers)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English Thieves' Cant",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1812, Robert Goadby, The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, new edition, original published 1745, W. Salter Tiverton, page 280:",
          "text": "First, a new name is given him, by which he is ever after to be called; then, standing up in the middle of the assembly, and directing his face to the dimber damber, or principal man of the gang, he repeats the following oath, which is dictated to him by some experienced member of the fraternity.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1837, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood, page 208:",
          "text": "Dick Turpin must be one of us. He shall be our dimber damber.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Suzannah Davis, Dance of Deception, →ISBN, page 140:",
          "text": "Smasher has the ear of every dimber damber in the city.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The leader of a group of thieves or vagrants."
      ],
      "id": "en-dimber_damber-en-noun-7PzuJti9",
      "links": [
        [
          "leader",
          "leader"
        ],
        [
          "thieves",
          "thief"
        ],
        [
          "vagrant",
          "vagrant"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "thieves' cant",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) The leader of a group of thieves or vagrants."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "criminal leader"
        },
        {
          "word": "dimber-damber"
        },
        {
          "word": "Dimber Damber"
        },
        {
          "word": "Dimber-Damber"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dimber damber"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dimber dambers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "dimber damber (plural dimber dambers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "British English",
        "English Thieves' Cant",
        "English apophonic reduplications",
        "English countable nouns",
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        "English multiword terms",
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        "English terms with quotations",
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        {
          "ref": "1812, Robert Goadby, The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, new edition, original published 1745, W. Salter Tiverton, page 280:",
          "text": "First, a new name is given him, by which he is ever after to be called; then, standing up in the middle of the assembly, and directing his face to the dimber damber, or principal man of the gang, he repeats the following oath, which is dictated to him by some experienced member of the fraternity.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1837, William Harrison Ainsworth, Rookwood, page 208:",
          "text": "Dick Turpin must be one of us. He shall be our dimber damber.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Suzannah Davis, Dance of Deception, →ISBN, page 140:",
          "text": "Smasher has the ear of every dimber damber in the city.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The leader of a group of thieves or vagrants."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "leader",
          "leader"
        ],
        [
          "thieves",
          "thief"
        ],
        [
          "vagrant",
          "vagrant"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "thieves' cant",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) The leader of a group of thieves or vagrants."
      ],
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        "UK",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "criminal leader"
    },
    {
      "word": "dimber-damber"
    },
    {
      "word": "Dimber Damber"
    },
    {
      "word": "Dimber-Damber"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dimber damber"
}