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160 BUB, a low expression signifying drink.

BUCKET. To bucket a person is synonymous with putting him in the well. See. Such treatment is said to be a bucketting concern.

BUFF. To buff a person or thing, is to swear to the identity of them; swearing very positively to any circumstance, is called buffing it home.

BUFFER, a dog.

BUG or BUG OVER. To give, deliver, or hand over; as, He bug’d me a quid, he gave me a guinea; bug over the rag, hand over the money.

BULL, a crown, or five shillings.

BULL-DOG, a sugar-loaf.

BULL-HANKERS, men who delight in the sport of bull-hanking; that is, bull-baiting, or bullock-hunting, games which afford much amusement, and at the same time frequent opportunities of depredation, in the confusion and alarm excited by the enraged animal.

BUM-CHARTER, a name given to bread steeped in hot water, by the first unfortunate inhabitants of the English Bastile, where this miserable fare was their daily breakfast, each man receiving with his scanty portion of bread, a quart of boil’d water from the cook’s coppers!

BUM-TRAP, a sheriff’s officer or his follower.

BUNCE, money.

BURICK, a prostitute, or common woman.

BUSH’D, poor; without money.

BUSHY-PARK, a man who is poor is said to be at Bushy park, or in the park.

BUSTLE, a cant term for money.

BUSTLE, any object effected very suddenly, or in a