long firm

English

Etymology

Possibly from a playful allusion made by one of the firm to the length of their credit.

Noun

long firm (plural long firms)

  1. A company of swindlers who obtain goods on pretence of being established in business, and then decamp without payment to do the same elsewhere.

References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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