Something of this is implied in the slang word _Pross_, since it also means "to sponge upon a comrade," &c., "for drink." TOSHERS are in English low language, "men who steal copper from ship's bottoms." I cannot form any direct connection between this word and any in English Gipsy, but it is curious that in Turkish Gipsy _Tasi_ is a cup, and in Turkish Persian it means, according to Paspati, a copper basin used in the baths.

It is as characteristic of English Gipsy as of any of its cognate dialects, that we often find lurking in it the most remarkable Oriental fragments, which cannot be directly traced through the regular line of transmission.
UP TO TRAP means, in common slang, intelligent.

It is worth observing, that in Gipsy, _drab_ or _trap_ (which words were pronounced alike by the first Gipsies who came from Germany to England), is used for medicine or poison, and the employment of the latter is regarded, even at the present, as the greatest Rommany secret.

Indeed, it is only a few days since a Gipsy said to me, "If you know _drab_, you're up to everything; for there's nothing goes above that." With _drab_ the Gipsy secures game, fish, pigs, and poultry; he quiets kicking horses until they can be sold; and last, not least, kills or catches rats and mice.

As with the Indians of North America, _medicine_--whether to kill or cure--is to the Gipsy the art of arts, and those who affect a knowledge of it are always regarded as the most intelligent.