badge-cove

== English == === Noun === badge-cove (plural badge-coves) (archaic, thieves' cant) A parish pensioner. [18th–19th c.] (obsolete) A licensed (badged) beggar. [16th–18th c.] (Polari) An old person; a senior citizen. ==== Synonyms ==== (old person): geriatric, oldster, senior citizen; see also Thesaurus:old person === References === [Francis] Grose [et al.] (1811), “Badge-cove”, in Lexicon Balatronicum. A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence. […], London: […] C. Chappell, […], →OCLC. Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890), “Badge coves”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 63.