simply, "He has been voting for the alderman." A lush-crib, or lush-ken, is a public-house.—From Vaux's Memoirs.
Aldgate pump (old), a draught on Aldgate pump meant a bill of exchange drawn on persons no better able to pay than Aldgate pump.
Ale draper (old), ale-house keeper.
Alemnoch (tinker), milk.
Ales (Stock Exchange), a nickname used by men on 'Change for Allsopp & Sons' stock.
Alexandra limp, the (common), a fashionable craze, resulting from a toadying imitation of a certain lady well known in society who walks with a slight limp.
Your own advocacy for the Grecian bend and the Alexandra limp—both positive and practical imitations of physical affliction.—Chambers's Journal.
Alfred David (popular), affidavit; also Affidavy and Davy.
I almost dropped when up she jumped
And said, "I'm ready now,
But why this look of thusness
That is stealing o'er thy brow?"
I cried, "Avaunt and touch me not!"
Then bolted up the lane,
And I'll take my Alfred David hot,
She don't catch me there again.
—Blighted Love, by Harry Adams.
He is engaged in receiving the afterdavy of a man who got his head broke by a tinker.—Kingsley: Geoffrey Hamlyn.
Algerines (theatrical), performers who bully the manager of a theatre when the salaries are not paid. Also petty money-borrowers.
All abroad (common) an expression used when any undertaking has failed, and a person is uncertain as to the course to pursue. A variant is "all at sea."
"Alas! poor ghost!" It's a doubt which is most
To be pitied—one doom'd to fry, broil, boil, and roast,—
Or one bandied about thus from pillar to post,—
To be all abroad—to be "stumped," not to know where
To go—so disgraced.
—Ingoldsby Legends: A Legend of Dover.
Allacompain or alicumpaine (rhyming slang), rain, termed "parney" in thieves' lingo; also a common sweetmeat derived from the name of the plant.
Of ups and downs I've felt the shock,
Since days of bats and shuttlecocks,
And alicumpaine and Albert rocks
When I the world began.
—The Leary Man.
He had been noted for an immoderate partiality for the saccharine though indigestible cates known as alecampane, and Bonaparte's ribs.—Sala: The Baddington Peerage.
All afloat, rhyming slang for a coat.
All alive (tailors), garments unfairly or slovenly made.
All along of, an illiterate synonym for "on account of," "by reason of," or "owing to such and such a cause." The phrase oc-
