Haymarket Hector

noun

A thug, bully or pimp inhabiting the London neighbourhood of Leicester Square and the Haymarket.

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nounHaymarket Hector (plural Haymarket Hectors)

plural Haymarket Hectors

  1. UKobsoleteslangA thug, bully or pimp inhabiting the London neighbourhood of Leicester Square and the Haymarket.

    You cannot have forgotten that when the late King took offence at an expression of Sir John Coventry's, he employed O'Brian, Sir Thomas Sands, and some other Haymarket Hectors, to cut off Sir John's nose as he returned home at night.

    1899, Horace Smith, Walter Colyton: A Tale of 1688, page 121
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