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(noun) - A man who travels about for the purpose of obtaining information useful to professional burglars. A man of this description will assume many characters, sometimes ingratiating himself with the master of the house, sometimes with the servants, but all to one end - that of robbery. He rarely or never joins in the actual burglary, his work being simply to obtain full particulars as to how, when, and where, for which he receives his full share of the swag.
--John Hotten's Slang Dictionary, 1887
January 14, 2018