ring-dropping

English

Noun

ring-dropping (uncountable)

  1. (historical) A form of fraud in which a ring or other spurious article is supposed to be found just in front of the mark, who is tempted to buy it at a fraction of its claimed value.

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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