kickseys

English

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Noun

kickseys pl (plural only)

  1. (slang, obsolete) Trousers.
    • 1827, James Hardy Vaux, Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux:
      KICKSEYS, breeches; speaking of a purse, &c., taken from the breeches pocket, they say, it was got from the kickseys, there being no cant term for the breeches pocket. To turn out a man's kickseys, means to pick the pockets of them, […]
    • 1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London (volume 2, page 140)
      From a Rum-Tom-Pat's kickseys I knapp'd a green twitch, / And nearly got off the gold glims from his snitch.
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