customer

A cant term, meaning one that one has to deal with, that one comes across. In use, it answers nearly to the word "fellow," and is often heard in such phrases as "He's a queer customer," "You'll find him an ugly customer."

What is any home game, or the wild boar of which British Lloyds write so pleasantly, when compared with such a customer as the buffalo bull?--London Athenæum, No. 195.