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"text": "A flashman just naturally tried to promote and show- off his company at every opportunity. Wasn't that what sales-PR was all about? Even the police departments engaged flashmen.",
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"ref": "2009, Patricia Morrison, California Screamin, Lulu.com, page 90",
"text": "\"They're all Los Angeles flashmen running this thing. Joe McDonald told anyone who'd listen that they're just a bunch of sleazebags opposed to everything we stand for, dragging show biz into it, and he was right.\"",
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"ref": "1818, William Hone, “Interview with Marquiz Boudoir”, in The Three Trials of William Hone, for Publishing Three Parodies: Viz. the Late John Wilkes's Catechism, the Political Litany, and the Sinecurist's Creed; on Three Ex-officit Informations, page 56",
"text": "Are not your favourite friends horn-boys and flashmen",
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"ref": "1823, Jon Bee, Diet, of the Turf, etc., page 80",
"text": "While loud her flashman cries, 'Arise, my ladybird, arise!'",
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},
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"ref": "1998, Padraic O'Farrell, The '98 Reader",
"text": "He now had a country seat at Kilmacud and women procured for him by a flashman.",
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"(obsolete) A pimp."
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"ref": "1819, London, The London Guide, and Stranger's Safeguard, Etc. (Second Edition.)., page 125",
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"text": "c. 1833, Broadside Ballad, \"My flashman has gone to sea\".\nMy flashman he's a Yankee, with his hair cut short behind"
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"ref": "1841, Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, page 186",
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"ref": "1843, Horace Smith, Adam Brown, the merchant. By the author of Brambletye house, page 173",
"text": "By not knowing it: the fellow's manners are so plausible and even insinuating, his appearance so gentlemanly, his voice so winning, that I suffered him to cheat me at Newmarket in the sale of a spavined horse, a regular screw, on the strength of which he claimed my acquaintance ; but as soon as I twigged that he was a flashman — one of the swell mob, I mizzled — gave him the cut direct.",
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"ref": "1912, Peter Hampson Ditchfield, The old English country squire, page 260",
"text": "He shared the fate of most country bumpkins on arriving at the metropolis, and was quickly robbed by a flashman, who claimed acquaintance with him and cleared out his fob"
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},
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"ref": "2009, Patricia Morrison, California Screamin, Lulu.com, page 90",
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},
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"text": "While loud her flashman cries, 'Arise, my ladybird, arise!'",
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},
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"ref": "1998, Padraic O'Farrell, The '98 Reader",
"text": "He now had a country seat at Kilmacud and women procured for him by a flashman.",
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},
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"text": "c. 1833, Broadside Ballad, \"My flashman has gone to sea\".\nMy flashman he's a Yankee, with his hair cut short behind"
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"text": "\"Stop your jaw, or I'll stop it for you, and teach you another time to know a gentleman from a flashman.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1843, Horace Smith, Adam Brown, the merchant. By the author of Brambletye house, page 173",
"text": "By not knowing it: the fellow's manners are so plausible and even insinuating, his appearance so gentlemanly, his voice so winning, that I suffered him to cheat me at Newmarket in the sale of a spavined horse, a regular screw, on the strength of which he claimed my acquaintance ; but as soon as I twigged that he was a flashman — one of the swell mob, I mizzled — gave him the cut direct.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "1912, Peter Hampson Ditchfield, The old English country squire, page 260",
"text": "He shared the fate of most country bumpkins on arriving at the metropolis, and was quickly robbed by a flashman, who claimed acquaintance with him and cleared out his fob"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Someone who distracts the target of a thief; a confidence trickster."
],
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