FLIP. Small beer, brandy, and sugar: this mixture, with the addition of a lemon, was by sailors, formerly called Sir Cloudsly, in memory of Sir Cloudsly Shovel, who used frequently to regale himself with it. FLOATING ACADEMY. See CAMPBELL'S ACADEMY. FLOATING HELL. The hulks. TO FLOG. To whip. FLOGGER. A horsewhip. CANT. FLOGGING CULLY. A debilitated lecher, commonly an old one. FLOGGING COVE. The beadle, or whipper, in Bridewell. FLOGGING STAKE. The whipping-post. TO FLOOR. To knock down. Floor the pig; knock down the officer. FLOURISH. To take a flourish; to enjoy a woman in a hasty manner, to take a flyer. See FLYER. TO FLOUT. To jeer, to ridicule. FLUMMERY. Oatmeal and water boiled to a jelly; also compliments, neither of which are over-nourishing. FLUSH IN THE POCKET. Full of money. The cull is flush in the fob. The fellow is full of money. FLUSTERED. Drunk. FLUTE. The recorder of a corporation; a recorder was an antient musical instrument. TO FLUX. To cheat, cozen, or over-reach; also to salivate. To flux a wig; to put it up in curl, and bake it. FLY. Knowing. Acquainted with another's meaning or proceeding. The rattling cove is fly; the coachman knows what we are about. FLY. A waggon. CANT. FLY-BY-NIGHT. You old fly-by-night; an ancient term of reproach to an old woman, signifying that she was a witch, and alluding to the nocturnal excursions attributed to witches, who were supposed to fly abroad to their meetings, mounted on brooms. FLY SLICERS. Life-guard men, from their sitting on horseback, under an arch, where they are frequently observed to drive away flies with their swords. FLYER. To take a flyer; to enjoy a woman with her clothes on, or without going to bed. FLYERS. Shoes. FLY-FLAPPED. Whipt in the stocks, or at the cart's tail. FLYING CAMPS. Beggars plying in a body at funerals. FLYING GIGGERS. Turnpike gates. FLYING HOUSE. A lock in wrestling, by which he who uses it throws his adversary over his head. FLYING PASTY. Sirreverence wrapped in paper and thrown over a neighbour's wall. FLYING PORTERS. Cheats who obtain money by pretending to persons who have been lately robbed, that they may come from a place or party where, and from whom, they may receive information respecting the goods stolen from them, and demand payment as porters. FLYING STATIONERS. Ballad-singers and hawkers of penny histories. FLYMSEY. A bank note. FOB. A cheat, trick, or contrivance, I will not be fobbed off so; I will not be thus deceived with false pretences. The fob is also a small breeches pocket for holding a watch. FOG. Smoke. CANT. FOGEY. Old Fogey. A nickname for an invalid soldier: derived from the French word fougeux, fierce or fiery. FOGLE. A silk handkerchief, FOGRAM. An old fogram; a fusty old fellow. FOGUS. Tobacco. Tip me a gage of fogus; give me a pipe of tobacco. CANT.