CAB, to stick together, to muck, or tumble up.—_Devonshire.__A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James.

CABBAGE, pieces of cloth said to be purloined by tailors.

CABBAGE, to pilfer or purloin. Termed by Johnson a cant word, but

adopted by later lexicographers as a respectable term. Said to have

been first used in this sense by _Arbuthnot_.

CABBY, the driver of a cab.

CAD, or CADGER (from which it is shortened), a mean or vulgar fellow;

a beggar; one who would rather live on other people than work for

himself; a man trying to worm something out of another, either money

or information. _Johnson_ uses the word, and gives _huckster_ as the

meaning, but I never heard it used in this sense. CAGER, or GAGER, the

_old cant_ term for a man. The exclusives in the Universities apply the

term CAD to all non-members.

CAD, an omnibus conductor.

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