AtDDtA1: Darby Suckling

[Dave Monroe]

--- Joseph Hutchison <joe at jhwriter.com> wrote:

> Speaking of Darby...one more idea concerning Darby
> Suckling¹s name: an online ³Dictionary of Thieving
> Slang² lists ³Darby² as meaning ³ready money²
> (http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/dict/D/DARBY.html),
> but the plural ³Darbies² as meaning ³irons,
> shackles or fetters²
> (http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/dict/D/DARBIES.html).
> The latter meaning was applied by Melville in title
> of the poem that ends his short novel Billy
> Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative), ³Billy in the
> Darbies.²...

Nor do I know what to do with this, but ...

Darby Crash ... (A.K.A. Bobby Pyn) ....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darby_Crash


 
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