Show quotatns</tle><g fill-le="evenodd"><path d="M0 0h3v2H0zM4 0h8v2H4zM4 3h6v2H4zM4 6h7v2H4zM4 9h8v2H4zM0 6h3v2H0zM0 9h3v2H0z"></path></g></svg></a></div></div></div><table class="qtable"><tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2N1gAAD3iZEXZzso8" data-dat="1744"><td class="date"><time>1744</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">H. Walpole</span> 26 Nov. <ce><a href="/sourc/4648">Letters</a></ce> I (1891) 332: He let to the p great numbers of Bear-garn <i>bisers</i> (that is the term), to knock down everybody that hissed .</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2N3YAAD3iZEbbTffA" data-dat="1753"><td class="date"><time>1753</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Foote</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7937">Englishman Paris</a></ce> <ce><a href="/sourc/5603">Works</a></ce> (1799) I 4: Dick Daylight and Bob Breadbasket, the bisers.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2N48AAD3iZEffpaPz" data-dat="1759"><td class="date"><time>1759</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J. Townley</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4488">High Life Below Stairs</a></ce> I ii: Take re what you say; his Grace is a Biser.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2N6YAAD3iZEhuT8uX" data-dat="1763"><td class="date"><time>1763</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[St]" tle="Stland"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/1358">Sts Mag.</a></ce> 6 June 39/1: Broughton, of bisers once the dread.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2N70AAD3iZEn_1o0l" data-dat="1772"><td class="date"><time>1772</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Bridg</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/5038">Burlque Homer</a></ce> (3rd edn) 2: And a manner que uncivil, / Sent fifty bisers to the vil.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2N9UAAD3iZEpx9FAz" data-dat="1789"><td class="date"><time>1789</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">G. Parker</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3343">Life’s Pater</a></ce> 139: Wh whom me muzzy Tom, / And sneakg Snip, the boozer, / Bag-pickg, blear-ey’d Ciss, / And squtg Jack, the biser.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2N-wAAD3iZEvgZ4Ig" data-dat="1797"><td class="date"><time>1797</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Bridg</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/5038">Burlque Homer</a></ce> (4th edn) I 118: He beat the mighty biser, Slack.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OAMAAD3iZEx2_8UU" data-dat="1800"><td class="date"><time>1800</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/4204">Sportg Mag.</a></ce> May XVI 90/1: A Nobleman, well known on the town as a fighter and biser, has been black-balled at the Jockey Club.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OBkAAD3iZE1W6WyC" data-dat="1811"><td class="date"><time>1811</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J. Poole</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3497">Hamlet Travtie</a></ce> III v: His Majty hath ma a match for you, Sir, To spar wh young Laert—a prime biser.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2ODAAAD3iZE4ZBYJf" data-dat="1812"><td class="date"><time>1812</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[Ire]" tle="Ireland"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/10776">Spir of Irish W</a></ce> 99: [A]n ement biser [...] ntetly addicted to whisky.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OEYAAD3iZE8Rhp9O" data-dat="1824"><td class="date"><time>1824</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/5854">Annals of Sportg</a></ce> 1 May 361/2: Many well-known sportg circl were observed — the <i>Biser-General, Long Bill, Dty Jack, Dandy Coalman</i>, &c.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OF0AAD3iZFAvmn-u" data-dat="1824"><td class="date"><time>1824</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/8894">Natnal Advote</a></ce> (N.Y.) 19 Apr. 2/3: The urt regretted scerely the necsy of lockg him up, but Tom was such a biser; he was so much attached to sky-larkg, and alt out his blows wh such force and severy.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OHQAAD3iZFHVX3tU" data-dat="1832"><td class="date"><time>1832</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Egan</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7722">Bk of Sports</a></ce> 73: Many a cross buttock have I given the <i>black biser</i> [i.e. the vil] for your sake! [Ibid.] 121: A secret joy the biser knows / In givg and receivg blows.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OIoAAD3iZFLWHHOD" data-dat="1848"><td class="date"><time>1848</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Thackeray</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4399">Vany Fair</a></ce> I 131: At llege he pulled stroke-oar the Christchurch boat, and had thrashed all the bt bisers of the ‘town’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OKAAAD3iZFMv9UZS" data-dat="1854"><td class="date"><time>1854</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[A]" tle="Atralia"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/9305">Goulburn Herald</a></ce> (NSW) 29 July 4/3: [W]e beheld a thick-set fellow, of bull-dog aspect, [...] formerlv a nvict, [...] and by profsn a <i>biser</i>.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OLcAAD3iZFQQ-Aho" data-dat="1854"><td class="date"><time>1854</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">‘Cuthbert Be’</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/6537">Adventur of Mr Verdant Green</a></ce> (1982) II 152: ‘Biser’ was plaly wrten his personal appearance, om his hard-featured, low-browed, battered, hang-dog face, to his thickset ame.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OM0AAD3iZFWbbTSV" data-dat="1867"><td class="date"><time>1867</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">G.W.H. Griff</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/8255">Hamlet the Daty</a></ce> Act III: To spar wh young Laert, a mmy biser.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OOQAAD3iZFbe9jEa" data-dat="1870"><td class="date"><time>1870</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">W.E.A. Axon</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/5221">Boggart of Orton Cloough</a></ce> 3: Theaw’s b a great biser i’ th’ toime, Roger.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OPoAAD3iZFez4Blq" data-dat="1883"><td class="date"><time>1883</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/9284">Nat. Police Gaz.</a></ce> (NY) 17 Nov. 10/2: A glove ntt [...] between Marcell Baker, of Boston, and Billy Andrews, a lol ‘biser’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2ORIAAD3iZFglQ9Et" data-dat="1883"><td class="date"><time>1883</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J. Greenwood</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/8234">Odd People Odd Plac</a></ce> 58: Two villano-lookg ‘bisers’ [...] of the very lowt of the ‘rough’ type – broken-nosed, botted, pimple-visaged, and unwholome-lookg fellows, whose foul and blasphemo language seemed to pollute the ptilent air of the place.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OSgAAD3iZFmAC2Dx" data-dat="1887"><td class="date"><time>1887</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[A]" tle="Atralia"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/6873">Bullet</a></ce> (Sydney) 15 Oct. 6/4: No more mt be said about the disreputable row which ed boxer Le’ flight to England. [.] The biser’s warm tted claratn will be a d rrective to the ‘loyal’ gh of our travellg C.M.G.’s.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OT4AAD3iZFpjrnIe" data-dat="1890"><td class="date"><time>1890</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/6633">Bird o’ Freedom</a></ce> 22 Jan. 2: Each ath-drawn trace on the biser’s face / Jack, sighg, looked upon.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OVUAAD3iZFvN97jR" data-dat="1894"><td class="date"><time>1894</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[A]" tle="Atralia"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/4522">Tth</a></ce> (Sydney) 28 Oct. 5/6: They ll me the ‘Biser’ [...] I uld knock out John L. Sullivan.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OWsAAD3iZFzAQ_n9" data-dat="1894"><td class="date"><time>1894</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">A. Morrison</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3003">Tal of Mean Streets</a></ce> (1983) 93: The old biser bbed vigoroly at his arms.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OYIAAD3iZF1QqAH3" data-dat="1895"><td class="date"><time>1895</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[A]" tle="Atralia"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Crowe</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/11120">A. Sl. Dict.</a></ce> 12: Biser, a low pugilist.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OZkAAD3iZF4DwgMW" data-dat="1901"><td class="date"><time>1901</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[St]" tle="Stland"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/995">Eve. Teleg.</a></ce> (Ang, St.) 3 June 3/4: A Famo biser As Klondyke Mer.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2ObEAAD3iZF9Dr69v" data-dat="1904"><td class="date"><time>1904</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[A]" tle="Atralia"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/9316">Sydney Sportsman</a></ce> (Surry Hills, NSW) 20 Jan. 6/1: ‘Spir’ Kelly will fight Ted Dargan the aborigal biser.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OckAAD3iZGBOFhh2" data-dat="1907"><td class="date"><time>1907</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" class="reta" alt=""></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">L. Esson</span> ‘The Sacred Place’ <ce>Lone Hand</ce> May 48: They had no tck wh [...] the unlucky bucks, broken bisers, and ‘guns’ out of a job.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OeAAAD3iZGGOZG70" data-dat="1910"><td class="date"><time>1910</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[A]" tle="Atralia"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/1418">Sun. Tim</a></ce> (Perth) 20 Mar. 2nd sect. 12/2: It would be a pretty game jockey who would liberately pull one of Tommy's [i.e. Burns] hors when the biser’s money was on .</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OfYAAD3iZGJ90YtC" data-dat="a1914"><td class="date"><time>1913–14</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Van Loan</span> ‘For the Pictur’ <ce><a href="/sourc/4592">Takg the Count</a></ce> 330: The thick-skulled, unimagative, old-style type of biser.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2Og0AAD3iZGM2GgK_" data-dat="1926"><td class="date"><time>1926</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">N. Lus</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/2555">London and s Crimals</a></ce> 62: They ually keep some kd of ‘biser’ on the premis se of trouble.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OiMAAD3iZGQIf98U" data-dat="1936"><td class="date"><time>1936</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[A]" tle="Atralia"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">‘Banjo’ Paterson</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3356">Shearer’s Colt</a></ce> 30: He [...] had fought a profsnal biser wh bare knuckl.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OjoAAD3iZGWsAPOC" data-dat="1941"><td class="date"><time>1941</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">G. Kersh</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/2215">They Die wh Their Boots Clean</a></ce> 29: Bullock is a biser. He is one of those boxers of whom nobody ever heard.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OlEAAD3iZGaehJzh" data-dat="1964"><td class="date"><time>1964</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[NZ]" tle="New Zealand"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J.A. Lee</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/2406">Sher Slattery</a></ce> 151: What separat a succsful biser om a brawler, a Sher om a pany promoter?</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OmgAAD3iZGeCaTcl" data-dat="1999"><td class="date"><time>1999</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[A]" tle="Atralia"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">G. Seal</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3965">Lgo</a></ce> 45: A fixed fight was known as a <span class="sc">barney</span> and a crooked fighter was reviled as a <span class="sc">biser</span>.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2On8AAD3iZGjQ1sgy" data-dat="2005"><td class="date"><time>2005</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J. Stahl</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4216">I, Fatty</a></ce> 34: Will didn’t say anythg about a biser like you beg part of the al.</td></tr> </table></sectn></sectn><sectn class="fn"><p id="sn2"><span class="senseno">2. </span>any form of thug who prefers to exprs himself wh his fists.</p><sectn class="quotatns qshown"><div class="timelearea"><div class="qfloatarea" style="display: none;"><div class="qfloat"><table class="qfloattbl"></table></div></div><div class="timelewrap"><div class="tlfirstdate"></div><div class="timele"></div><div class="tllastdate"></div><div class="qtoggle"><a href="#"><svg xmlns=" width="12" height="11"><tle>Show quotatns</tle><g fill-le="evenodd"><path d="M0 0h3v2H0zM4 0h8v2H4zM4 3h6v2H4zM4 6h7v2H4zM4 9h8v2H4zM0 6h3v2H0zM0 9h3v2H0z"></path></g></svg></a></div></div></div><table class="qtable"><tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2Oq0AAD3iZGo9UH7n" data-dat="1765"><td class="date"><time>1765</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">H. Brooke</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/6806">Fool of Qualy</a></ce> I 140: Their Adversary, had, like Harry, been a Biser, om two Years old and upward.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OsUAAD3iZGtTmyIj" data-dat="1771"><td class="date"><time>1771</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">R. Kg</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/11256">New London Spy</a></ce> 25: A uple of bulli [...] began a dialogue the character of bisers. ‘D—n your ey (says one) [etc].</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2Ot4AAD3iZGyVLMtf" data-dat="1822"><td class="date"><time>1822</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/1501">Wtmorland Gaz.</a></ce> (Cumbria) 16 Nov. 2/3: Female Biser. Elizabeth Smh [...] one of the most celebrated pugilists London, was [...] charged wh assltg and knockg down some watchmen.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OvUAAD3iZG2FXsGB" data-dat="1840"><td class="date"><time>1840</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">T. Haliburton</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/8300">Clockmaker</a></ce> III 114: Regular built bisers too; claw your ey right out, like a Carola gouger.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OwwAAD3iZG6O-blt" data-dat="1850"><td class="date"><time>1850</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">‘Ned Buntle’</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/6883">G’hals of N.Y.</a></ce> 65: The unlucky tars, half ad and stupefied wh the poisoned liquor they had drank, as well as the punishment they had received at the hands of the bisers.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OyMAAD3iZG882fTO" data-dat="1855"><td class="date"><time>1855</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">T. Taylor</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/180">Still Waters Run Deep</a></ce> II i: <span class="sc">mrs. s</span>: If a man gave you a blow, what would you do? <span class="sc">dmay</span>: H him aga. <span class="sc">mrs. s</span>: Y, if he were a Biser, but if he were a gentleman...</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2OzoAAD3iZHAh-mub" data-dat="1873"><td class="date"><time>1873</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J. O’Connor</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3212">Wanrgs of a Vagabond</a></ce> 285: You’d make a d—n nice job of , gog up agast McGovern and his bisers. Why, they’ll bt you all up five mut.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2O1AAAD3iZHH3y_0O" data-dat="1885"><td class="date"><time>1885</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/496">North Amer. Rev.</a></ce> Nov. 434: Among the crowd were four New-York ck-fighters, two Chigo murrers, three Baltimore bisers, one Philalphia prize-fighter, four San Francis hoodlums, three Virgia beats, two Unn Pacific roughs.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2O2cAAD3iZHJqHxgM" data-dat="1889"><td class="date"><time>1889</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/717">Sunrland Dly Echo</a></ce> 7 Aug. 4/2: [headle] A Female Biser. At the Borough Police Court [...] Isa Campbell charged San Watson wh asslt.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2O34AAD3iZHMWQ8w_" data-dat="1891"><td class="date"><time>1891</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J.A. Riis</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3715">How the Other Half Liv</a></ce> 218: The mon ‘biser’ of a more phlegmatic clime.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2O5UAAD3iZHS4TNyb" data-dat="1894"><td class="date"><time>1894</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">A. Morrison</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3003">Tal of Mean Streets</a></ce> (1983) 147: The fallen joker found himself awkwardly nonted by the shop biser.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2O6wAAD3iZHWSEwri" data-dat="1907"><td class="date"><time>1907</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[Can]" tle="Canada"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">R. Service</span> ‘Gr’ <ce><a href="/sourc/5722">Songs of a Sourdough</a></ce> 28: If you’re up agast a biser and you’re gettg knocked about – Gr.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2O8IAAD3iZHbXEYct" data-dat="1908"><td class="date"><time>1908</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">D. Stewart</span> <ce>Wild Trib of London</ce> <ce><a href="/sourc/1109">Ill. Police News</a></ce> 11 Jan. 12/4: ‘Listen, my ancient biser’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2O9kAAD3iZHc9XE1_" data-dat="1919"><td class="date"><time>1919</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">H.C. Wwer</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/4916">Se A Mute</a></ce> 371: Like most fatheads, Lefty figured a woman falls to the arms of a biser which will beat up the prent cumbent.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2O-8AAD3iZHgiWuen" data-dat="1924"><td class="date"><time>1924</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">S. Stt</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3942">Human Si of Crook and Convict Life</a></ce> 146: A typil old ‘biser’ who was prison wh me, and was released about the same time.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2PAYAAD3iZHn5dW8K" data-dat="1939"><td class="date"><time>1939</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J.T. Farrell</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7838">Tommy Gallagher’s Csa</a></ce> 71: Only ten fellows had e along to break up the meetg: Al O’Reilly [...] and five bisers whom Tommy didn’t know.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2PB0AAD3iZHrpnqQX" data-dat="1948"><td class="date"><time>1948</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">C. Day Lewis</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7447">Otterbury Incint</a></ce> 34: Ted had gone a b pale [...] wh that great biser glarg down at him.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2PDQAAD3iZHtbsc1H" data-dat="1948"><td class="date"><time>1948</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" class="reta" alt=""></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">Dan Burley</span> ‘Back Door Stuff’ 27 Nov. [synd. l.] Big bisers who should be turng over streetrs and wrasslg polar bears.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2PEoAAD3iZHzMxMtJ" data-dat="1953"><td class="date"><time>1953</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">R. Chandler</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7066">Long Good-Bye</a></ce> 48: I’m a bs where people e to me wh troubl [...] but always troubl they don’t want to take to the ps. How long would they e if any biser wh a police shield uld hold me upsi down and dra my guts?</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2PGIAAD3iZH0kQVMy" data-dat="1966"><td class="date"><time>1966</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">M. Rumaker</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3822">Ex 3 and Other Stori</a></ce> 41: This big biser got funny.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2PHgAAD3iZH7Y7m1o" data-dat="1978"><td class="date"><time>1978</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">A. Burgs</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/110">1985</a></ce> (1980) 173: Bev [...] enuntered two bisers official overalls.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2PI4AAD3iZH_eNXrY" data-dat="1984"><td class="date"><time>1984</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">P. Barker</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/6450">Blow Your Hoe Down</a></ce> 113: She was one of the only two wicked people I’ve known, and I’ve known some bisers.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2PKUAAD3iZICwcb1d" data-dat="1996"><td class="date"><time>1996</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[A]" tle="Atralia"></td><td class="quote">(n. 1964-65) <span class="thor">B. Thorpe</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/10885">Sex and Thugs and Rock ’n’ Roll</a></ce> 130: Like all big bisers, he was heavy and slow.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2PLwAAD3iZIHGydGB" data-dat="1997"><td class="date"><time>1997</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">D. Farson</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/7843">Never a Normal Man</a></ce> 311: Outrageo tarts, dark-skned bisers, dnks, tramps and me.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2PNIAAD3iZIIJ1PEz" data-dat="2000"><td class="date"><time>2000</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/2041">Inp. on Sun.</a></ce> Culture 23 Jan. 12: He is the kd of good-natured biser wh whom his subject [...] would have cheerfully attempted to start a fist-fight.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2POkAAD3iZIOMtbhY" data-dat="2004"><td class="date"><time>2004</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[A]" tle="Atralia"></td><td class="quote">(n. 1960s-70s) <span class="thor">T. Taylor</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/10882">Top Fellas</a></ce> 59/2: Too many five-star bisers [...] classed themselv as sharpi.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2PP8AAD3iZIQS8te5" data-dat="2006"><td class="date"><time>2006</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">E. St Aubyn</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/3854">Mothers Milk</a></ce> 91: The biser’s mother me over. ‘I’m sorry about that,’ she said. ‘Elt is so petive.’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2PRUAAD3iZIUx67Dk" data-dat="2011"><td class="date"><time>2011</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">J.J. Connolly</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/742">Viva La Madns</a></ce> 74: Four sisters, bisers wh very hard, sharp fac.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2PSwAAD3iZIb0UlE0" data-dat="2013"><td class="date"><time>2013</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">T. Robson</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/10684">Hard Bounce</a></ce> [ebook] ‘If you jt wanted a biser, you uld throw a stick Kenmore Square and ’d bounce off a dozen thick necks’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2PUIAAD3iZIcNqCK4" data-dat="2015"><td class="date"><time>2015</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[A]" tle="Atralia"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">G. Disher</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/10628">Heat</a></ce> [ebook] [M]ost people would see him for a suave biser, not a bsman: the hands, the rd tendons, the chill.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2PVkAAD3iZIib9zFp" data-dat="2017"><td class="date"><time>2017</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[Ire]" tle="Ireland"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">L. McInerney</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/11369">Blood Miracl</a></ce> 38: Aren’t they both ebony-topped bisers disposed towards sullenns.</td></tr> </table></sectn></sectn><sectn class="fn"><p id="sn3"><span class="senseno">3. </span>one who performs strongly (although not necsarily aggrsively).</p><sectn class="quotatns qshown"><div class="timelearea"><div class="qfloatarea" style="display: none;"><div class="qfloat"><table class="qfloattbl"></table></div></div><div class="timelewrap"><div class="tlfirstdate"></div><div class="timele"></div><div class="tllastdate"></div><div class="qtoggle"><a href="#"><svg xmlns=" width="12" height="11"><tle>Show quotatns</tle><g fill-le="evenodd"><path d="M0 0h3v2H0zM4 0h8v2H4zM4 3h6v2H4zM4 6h7v2H4zM4 9h8v2H4zM0 6h3v2H0zM0 9h3v2H0z"></path></g></svg></a></div></div></div><table class="qtable"><tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2PYgAAD3iZIpEMvnp" data-dat="1823"><td class="date"><time>1823</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[US]" tle="Uned Stat"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/3130">N.-Y. Eve. Post</a></ce> 11 Feb. 2/1: [headle, of a heavy drker] A stout grog biser.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2PZ8AAD3iZIvWt6ZP" data-dat="1859"><td class="date"><time>1859</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[A]" tle="Atralia"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/11295">Bell’s Life Tasmania</a></ce> 12 July 3/3: [T]he horsemanship of some of our ‘gay valiers’ serv a word or two of mentn; more pecially the pluck and skill of Msrs. Clarke and Allison, who showed themselv regular ‘bisers’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2PbcAAD3iZIxNJFOe" data-dat="1874"><td class="date"><time>1874</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[UK]" tle="Uned Kgdom"></td><td class="quote"><span class="thor">‘Old Calabar’</span> <ce><a href="/sourc/10642">Won a Canter</a></ce> I 174: [of hors] They were not bisers over a untry, but were difficult to beat along the roads.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2Pc8AAD3iZI3I-nbr" data-dat="1882"><td class="date"><time>1882</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" srcset="/static/img/flags/ 1x, /static/img/flags/ 2x" alt="[NZ]" tle="New Zealand"></td><td class="quote"><ce><a href="/sourc/1449">Tuapeka Tim</a></ce> (Otago) 16 Sept. 4: Our junr iend ought to be pretty strong for a tssle; but look out C[ounsello]r. M! Gee gets the name of beg a ‘biser’.</td></tr> <tr class="quotatn" id="DjAlA60nQdknuUF2PeYAAD3iZI46ua_B" data-dat="1896"><td class="date"><time>1896</time></td><td class="flag"><img src="/static/img/flags/" class="reta" alt=""></td><td class="quote"><ce>Meridnal</ce> (Abbeville, LA) 7 Mar. 2/1: I’m a biser, / A bloomg snoozer, / A rare amer. / And my lors they are black-and-tan.</td></tr> </table></sectn></sectn><sectn class="fn"><p id="sn4"><span class="senseno">4. </span> attrib. of sens 1 & 3.</p><sectn class="quotatns qshown"><div class="timelearea"><div class="qfloatarea" style="display: none;"><div class="qfloat"><table class="qfloattbl"></table></div></div><div class="timelewrap"><div class="tlfirstdate"></div><div class="timele"></div><div class="tllastdate"></div><div class="qtoggle"><a href="#"><svg xmlns=" width="12" height="11"><tle>Show quotatns

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