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plural vincents
(historical slang) The victim or dupe in a betting game, especially bowls. quotations
If the vincent could actually be persuaded to play a game, the professionals always won in the end, either because of their superior skill or because of such stratagems as those described by Greene […]
1977, Gãmini Salgãdo, The Elizabethan Underworld, Folio Society, published 2006, page 26