TO WADDLE. To go like a duck. To waddle out of Change alley as a lame duck; a term for one who has not been able to pay his gaming debts, called his differences, on the Stock Exchange, and therefore absents himself from it.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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