blackfriars

See also: black friars and Blackfriars

English

Noun

blackfriars

  1. plural of blackfriar

Interjection

blackfriars

  1. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) look out; beware

Synonyms

  • cave, look out, watch it, or for semantic relationships of this term, see heads up in the Thesaurus.

References

  • “blackfriars” in Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant, volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: The Ballantyne Press, 1889–1890, page 127.
  • Farmer, John Stephen (1890) Slang and Its Analogues‎, volume 1, page 212
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