¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Costers
1. coster [n] - See also: coster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Costers
Literary usage of Costers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"... Shine-nag (costers), a token of bankruptcy, or being " cracked up." "You'll
ruin the shine- nag if you go on like that." Shiner (popular), a sovereign; ..."
2. The English at Home by Alphonse Esquiros (1861)
"The English costers reside in courts and alleys in the vicinity of the ...
It is calculated that only one-third of the costers have a capital of their own; ..."
3. London labour and the London poor: Cyclopædia of the Condition and Earnings by Henry Mayhew (1861)
"But I'm satisfied that if the costers had to profess themselves of some ...
This is the reason :—London costers live very often in the same courts and ..."
Other Resources:
