the Crack (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

the Crack

All the Crack

The fashionable theme, the go. The Crack Lay, of late is used, in the cant language, to signify the art and mystery of house-breaking.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

To Crack * Cracker

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Nathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang

John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes

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