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Coster2. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Coster2 colloq. Short for COSTERMONGER.

1 1851.  Mayhew, Lond. Labour (1861), I. 26/1. The costers never steal from one another.

2 1864.  F. W. Robinson, Mattie, I. 135. Bawling costers with barrows.

3 1878.  Besant & Rice, Celia’s Arb., i. A street market, consisting almost entirely of costers’ carts and barrows.

4   b.  attrib. and Comb., as coster-boy, -ditty, -girl, -song, etc.

5 1851.  Mayhew, Lond. Labour, I. 35/2. The Education of the ‘Coster-Lads.’ Ibid., I. 43/2. The story of one coster-girl’s life may be taken as a type of the many.

6 1857.  Kingsley, Two Y. Ago, xxiv. Laying down the law to a group of coster-boys.

7 1887.  Times, 3 Dec., 12/3. He and his brethren of the coster fraternity had been driven from pillar to post.

8 1892.  Graphic, 21 May. Long before the days of Mr. Chevalier and his excellent songs, there was a coster-ditty, which [etc.].

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