eslop
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[edit]Noun
[edit]eslop (plural eslops)
- Alternative form of esclop
- 1851, Henry Mayhew, “The Literature of Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor[1], volume 1, page 25:
- Anything about the police sets them a talking at once. […] 'The blessed crushers are everywhere,' shouted one. 'I wish I'd been there to have had a shy at the eslops,' said another. And then a man sung out: 'O, don't I like the Bobbys?'