kinchin lay
English
Noun
- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) The robbing of children.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXV, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 259 footnote:
- This is still a popular form of the "Kinchin lay", and as the turbands are often of fine stuff, the petite industrie pays well.
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