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单词 Haymarket Hector
释义

Haymarket Hector

English

Noun

Haymarket Hector (plural Haymarket Hectors)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A thug, bully or pimp inhabiting the London neighbourhood of Leicester Square and the Haymarket.
    • 1899, Horace Smith, Walter Colyton: A Tale of 1688 (page 121)
      You cannot have forgotten that when the late King took offence at an expression of Sir John Coventry's, he employed O'Brian, Sir Thomas Sands, and some other Haymarket Hectors, to cut off Sir John's nose as he returned home at night.

References

  • 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
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