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ham lottery. [Written also bunco.] Bunko steerer, a person employed as a decoy in bunko. [Slang, U.S.]

Something huge; a roistering blade; also, a spree. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

collection; the entire quantity or number; -- usually in the phrase the whole caboodle. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg. [Prov. or Slang, Eng.] Wright.

One who gets his living by trickery or begging. [Prov. or Slang] "The gentleman cadger." Dickens.

Partnership; as to go in cahoot with a person. [Slang, southwestern U. S.] Bartlett.

Vulgar jargon; slang; the secret language spoker by gipsies, thieves. tramps, or beggars.

A Canadian. [Slang]

To salute by removing the cap. [Slang. Eng.] Tom . . . capped the proctor with the profoundest of bows. Thackeray.

A by-bidder; a decoy for gamblers [Slang, U. S.].

To vomit. [Slang] Smollett.

To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter. To cave in. Etym: [Flem. inkalven.] (a) To fall in and leave a hollow, as earth on the side of a well or pit. (b) To submit; to yield. [Slang] H. Kingsley.

To prance ostentatiously; -- said of a horse or his rider. [Local slang U. S.]

d; a variety of argillaceous slate. -- By a long chalk, by a long way; by many degrees. [Slang] Lowell. -- Chalk drawing (Fine Arts), a drawing made with crayons. See Crayon. -- Chalk formation. See Cretaceous formation, under Cretaceous. -- Chalk line, a cord rubbed with chalk, used for making straight lines on bo…

A street seller of ballads and other broadsides. [Slang, Eng.]

Cool confidence; assurance; impudence. [Slang] Cheek of beef. See Illust. of Beef. -- Cheek bone (Anat.) the bone of the side of the fase; esp., the malar bone. -- Cheek by jowl, side by side; very intimate. -- Cheek pouch (Zoöl.), a sacklike dilation of the cheeks of certain monkeys and rodents, used for holding fo…

a Brazen-faced; impudent; bold. [Slang.]

An old joke or story. [Slang] Chestnut tree, a tree that bears chestnuts.

See Chivy, v. t. [Slang, Eng.] One poor fellow was chevied about among the casks in the storm for ten minutes. London Times.

Good form; style. [Slang]