flatty-ken

English

Noun

flatty-ken (plural flatty-kens)

  1. (UK, thieves' cant, obsolete) A public house whose landlord is ignorant of the practices of the thieves and tramps who frequent it.

References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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