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Collared Up, ppl. adj. (colloquial).—Kept close to business. Cf., Out of collar.
Collar or Get the Big Bird.—See
Big Bird, and for synonyms,
Goosed.
Collar Work, subs. phr. (colloquial).
Laborious work.—See
Against Collar.
1883. Daily Telegraph, July 3, p. 2, col. 1. The bald patches on their shoulders testified to their intimate acquaintance with collar work and tugging on stoney roads with heavy loads behind them.
1888. Ant. Trollope, What I Remember. And when Lucca was reached there were still fourteen miles, nearly all collar work, between that and the baths.
Collector, subs. (old).—A highwayman
or footpad.
College, subs. (thieves').—A
prison; the inmates are called
collegians or collegiates
(q.v.); Newgate was formerly
called 'the City College.'
The Spanish Germania has colegio
and collège is found in the argot
of French thieves.
1703. Title, 'The History of Whittington's Colledge otherwise (vulgarly) called Newgate. London, Printed in the Year 1703.'
1785. Grose, Dict. Vulg. Tongue. College, Newgate, or any other prison.
1836. Dickens, Pickwick Papers (about 1827), p. 370 (ed. 1857). 'Mornin', gen'l'mem', said Sam, entering at the moment with the shoes and gaiters; 'avay vith melancholly, as the little boy said ven his schoolmissus died. Velcome to the college, gen'l'mem.'
1859. Matsell, Vacabulum, or Rogue's Lexicon, p. 20. College: a State prison.
1889. Answers, 8 June, p. 25. I have since met several men whom I knew in prison at one time or other, and most of them have recognised me; but only one other has stopped me to remind me that we were at 'college' together.
College Chum.—See Collegiate.
Colleger, subs. (University and
public schools').—A square cap,
otherwise known as a mortar-board.
For general synonyms,
see Golgotha.
Collegian.—See Collegiate.
Collegiate, Collegian or College
Chum, subs. (thieves').—The
inmate of a prison.—[See College.]
1743. North, Life of Lord Guildford, I., 123. His beginnings were debauched, and his study and first practice in the gaol. For having been one of the fiercest town-*rakes and spent more than he had of his own, his case forced him upon that expedient for a lodging, and there he . . . busied himself with the cases of his fellow-collegiates.
1785. Grose, Dict. Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1836. Dickens, Pickwick Papers (about 1827), p. 369 (ed. 1857). 'I say—do you expect anybody this morning? Three men—devilish gentlemanly fellows—have been asking after you downstairs, and knocking at every door on the hall flight: for which they've been most infernally blown up by the collegians that had the trouble of opening 'em.'
1859. G. W. Matsell, Vocabulum, or the Rogues Lexicon, College Chum: a fellow-prisoner.
1884. Dickens. [Quoted in Supplement to Annandale's ed. of Ogilvie's Imperial Dict.] It became a not unusual circumstance for letters to be put under his door at night enclosing half-a-crown . . . for the father of the Marshalsea, 'with the compliments of a collegian taking leave.'
Ladies' College, subs. (general).—A brothel. For synonyms, see Nanny-shop.
Collogue, verb (colloquial).—To
confer confidentially and secretly;
to conspire; to wheedle; or flatter.
The term is also used in a humorous
sense. [From Lat. col, toge-
