Kidder.  A forestaller:  see Crocker.  Kidders are also
  persons employed by the gardeners to gather peas.

KIDDEYS.  Young thieves.

Kiddy nippers.  Taylors out of work, who cut off the
  waistcoat pockets of their brethren, when cross-legged on
  their board, thereby grabbling their bit.  Cant.

Kidnapper.  Originally one who stole or decoyed children
  or apprentices from their parents or masters, to send
  them to the colonies; called also spiriting:  but now used
  for all recruiting crimps for the king’s troops, or those of
  the East India company, and agents for indenting servants
  for the plantations, &c.

Kidney.  Disposition, principles, humour.  Of a strange
  kidney; of an odd or unaccountable humour.  A man of
  a different kidney; a man of different principles.

Kilkenny.  An old frize coat.

Kill care club.  The members of this club, styled also
  the Sons of Sound Sense and Satisfaction, met at their
  fortress, the Castle-tavern, in Paternoster-row.

Kill devil.  New still-burnt rum.

Kill priest. Port wine.

To kimbaw.  To trick, cheat or cozen; also to beat or to
  bully.  Let’s kimbaw the cull; let’s bully the fellow. 
  To set one’s arms a-kimbaw, vulgarly pronounced a-kimbo,
  is to rest one’s hands on the hips, keeping the elbows
  square, and sticking out from the body; an insolent
  bullying attitude.  Cant.

Kinchin.  A little child.  Kinchin coes; orphan beggar
  boys, educated in thieving.  Kinchin morts; young girls
  under the like circumstances and training.  Kinchin
  morts, or coes in slates; beggars’ children carried at their
  mother’s backs in sheets.  Kinchin cove; a little man.  Cant.

King’s plate.  Fetters.

King’s wood lion.  An Ass.  Kingswood is famous for
  the great number of asses kept by the colliers who inhabit
  that place.

King’s bad bargain.  One of the king’s bad bargains; a
  malingeror, or soldier who shirks his duty.

King’s head inn, or chequer inn, in Newgate
  street.  The prison of Newgate.

King john’s men.  He is one of king John’s men, eight
  score to the hundred:  a saying of a little undersized man.

King of the gypsies.  The captain, chief, or ringleader
  of the gang of misrule:  in the cant language called also the
  upright man.

King’s pictures.  Coin, money.

Kingdom come.  He is gone to kingdom come, he is dead.

Kip.  The skin of a large calf, in the language of the
  Excise-office.