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noun
A member of a gang of criminal youths that originated in the early 1620s.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, in-plural
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History
An allusion to the first line in Virgil's First Eclogue: "Tityre tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi" ("Tityrus, thou reclining beneath the shelter of the spreading beech tree").
