gooseberry lay

English

Noun

gooseberry lay (plural gooseberry lays)

  1. (archaic, thieves' cant) The stealing of linen hanging on a line.

References
  • Farmer, John Stephen (1893) Slang and Its Analogues‎, volume 3, page 183
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