"fidlam ben" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fidlam bens",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fidlam ben (plural fidlam bens)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English Thieves' Cant",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1834, Seba Smith, Charles Augustus Davis, John Clarke (of Philadelphia), The Life of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States: Illustrated with Numerous Cuts, page 122",
          "text": "Given them are fidlam-bens who want Beauty and Booty as the reward of their havin fag'd as many of you as dont pike off, bullets for their prog; and let me see that you are jonnok, when these shabbaroons of England attack you.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 December 4, Bree Wolf, Sydney Jane Baily, Tracy Sumner, Charlie Lane, Fenna Edgewood, Jennifer Monroe, Meredith Bond, Naughty or Nice: A Holiday Regency Anthology, WOLF Publishing UG (haftungsbeschränkt)",
          "text": "He could get sent to jail for breaking in like a thieving fidlam ben.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A thief."
      ],
      "id": "en-fidlam_ben-en-noun-rDjwVIAZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "thief",
          "thief"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "thieves' cant",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(thieves' cant, archaic) A thief."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fidlam ben"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fidlam bens",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fidlam ben (plural fidlam bens)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English Thieves' Cant",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1834, Seba Smith, Charles Augustus Davis, John Clarke (of Philadelphia), The Life of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States: Illustrated with Numerous Cuts, page 122",
          "text": "Given them are fidlam-bens who want Beauty and Booty as the reward of their havin fag'd as many of you as dont pike off, bullets for their prog; and let me see that you are jonnok, when these shabbaroons of England attack you.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 December 4, Bree Wolf, Sydney Jane Baily, Tracy Sumner, Charlie Lane, Fenna Edgewood, Jennifer Monroe, Meredith Bond, Naughty or Nice: A Holiday Regency Anthology, WOLF Publishing UG (haftungsbeschränkt)",
          "text": "He could get sent to jail for breaking in like a thieving fidlam ben.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A thief."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "thief",
          "thief"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "thieves' cant",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(thieves' cant, archaic) A thief."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fidlam ben"
}