old gentleman
English
Noun
old gentleman (plural old gentlemen)
- (Britain, slang, obsolete) A playing card that is almost imperceptibly longer than the others in the deck, used by cheats.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see old, gentleman.
References
- 1865, Edward Samuel Taylor, The History of Playing Cards
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary