Meaning of dimber damber | Babel Free

Definitions

The leader of a group of thieves or vagrants.

UK, obsolete

Examples

“First, a new name is given him, by which he is ever after to be called; then, standing up in the middle of the assembly, and directing his face to the dimber damber, or principal man of the gang, he repeats the following oath, which is dictated to him by some experienced member of the fraternity.”

“Dick Turpin must be one of us. He shall be our dimber damber.”

“Smasher has the ear of every dimber damber in the city.”

“"No, no refusal," exclaimed a chorus of voices. "Dick Turpin must be one of us. He shall be our Dimber Damber."”

“By the Rom-pad maundred none In quarrons both for stamp and bone, Like my Clapperdogeon! Dimber Damber fare thee well, Pallyards all thou didst excel;”

“Sung on the electing of a new Dimber Damber, or King of the Gypsies,”

“Everything that passed through the Bear and Dog, the Dimber Damber took a tax from– from jewel theft, from the income of the whores of the so-called pushing academies, from the haul of pickpockets and tricksters.”

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