Word: kidded
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...Albany, N. Y., a gypsy caravan was arrested for traffic violation. Asked to produce bail, the gypsy chief handed the judge his small baby, said: "Keep the kid." The judge demurred. The tribe gave $4 bond, did not reappear...
...KID HIMSELF...
...Kid...
...Racket: Some particular kinds of fraud and robbery are so termed, when called by their flask titles, and others, Rig; as, the Letter-racket; the Order-racket, the Kid rig, the Cat and Kitten rig; etc., but all these terms depend on the fancy of the speaker. In fact, any game may be termed a rig, racket, suit, slum, etc. by prefixing thereto the particular branch of depredation or fraud in question...
Incidently, this "Kid rig" was a confidence game. Children carrying parcels were accosted by petty thieves acting as messengers, who told the child that they were to relieve him of the burden while he returned to his employer for more urgent business. From this we get the expression "to kid out of." When we kid a person out of some possession, we work the "Kid...