Diver

a pickpocket. Also applied to fingers, no doubt from a similar reason. To DIVE is to pick pockets. Do , this useful and industrious verb has for many years done service as a slang term. To DO a person is to cheat him. Sometimes another tense is employed, such as “I DONE him,” meaning, I cheated or “paid him out;” this is only used in the lowest grades of society. Done brown , cheated thoroughly, befooled; DONE OVER , upset, cheated, knocked down, ruined. Among thieves DONE OVER means that a man’s pockets have been all quietly searched; the term also means among low people seduced; DONE UP , used up, finished, or quieted. Done also means convicted, or sentenced; so does DONE-FOR . To DO a person in pugilism is to beat him. Humphreys, who fought Mendoza, a Jew, wrote this laconic note to his supporter—“I have DONE the Jew, and am in good health.—Rich. Humphreys.” Tourists use the expre ion, “I have DONE France and Italy,” meaning I have been through those countries.