moskeneer

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Verb[edit]

moskeneer (third-person singular simple present moskeneers, present participle moskeneering, simple past and past participle moskeneered)

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To pawn (an article) for more than it is worth, in order to make a profit.

References[edit]

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
  • Oxford English Dictionary.