A bad, worn-out, foundered horse; also a cowardly or faint-hearted horse-stealer.
·noun A horse which prances. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A horse. Prancer's nab.; a horse's head, used as a seal to a counterfeit pass. At the sign of the pr...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
·noun Counterfeit money. II. Queer ·add. ·adj To <<Puzzle>>. III. Queer ·adj Mysterious; suspiciou...
or quire Base, roguish, bad, naught or worthless. How queerly the cull touts; how roguishly the fel...
A fine horse. CANT. ...
Large buckles. ...
Insolvent sharpers, who make a profession of bailing persons arrested: they are generally styled Jew...
Rogues relieved from prison, and returned to their old trade. ...
An odd, out-of-the-way fellow. ...
The master of a public-house the resort of rogues and sharpers, a cut-throat inn or alehouse keeper....
An empty purse. ...
Among strolling players, door-keepers who defraud the company, by falsely checking the number of peo...
A rogue. CANT. ...
A justice of the peace; also a churl. ...
An ordinary sword, brass or iron hilted. ...
A prison. CANT. ...
A bad pair of breeches. ...
A diseased strumpet. CANT. ...
A felt hat, or other bad hat. ...
Cheats who throw themselves into the water, in order that they may be taken up by their accomplices,...
An informer that pretends to be sleeping, and thereby overhears the conversation of thieves in night...
Wrong. Improper. Contrary to one's wish. It is queer street, a cant phrase, to signify that it is wr...
An odd or eccentric person is often called a queer fish, an odd stick. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
Coiners. CANT. ...
A putter off, or utterer, of bad money. ...
A maker of bad money. ...
Out of order, without knowing one's disease. ...