Word: cribbing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...write, but it was all wrong. The keepers of these cages glided up and down before them noiselessly, and watched the inmates. Then Lighthead turned to a wight next him and inquired, "Why do they peer at us so carefully?" "They are afraid that we may spring a crib upon them," replied the lad; but ere Lighthead could go farther in his quest of knowledge, one of the watchers did approach, and said, "Report yourself at the office this afternoon...
...MINNIE lights her T. D. pipe, and they go out arm in arm, discussing the good old times when the students weren't put on their honor, and could crib through an examination...
...shall slump and dead in spite of crib and cram...
...Semis all the proctors are on hand the crib to spot...
...author opens with remarks about the word pony. At Cornell the word has a different meaning from that which it bears nearly everywhere else, being used to signify a crib, or other unlawful aid used at examinations or recitations. At Bowdoin a crib is known as a fakir, and at Yale it is a skin. The author - Richard Grant Black is his name - makes one or two unimportant mistakes with regard to the few original slang words in use here. Snab for girls, he tells us, is a Harvard word. He may be right, but I think very few undergraduates...