Croakers.  Forestallers, called also Kidders and Tranters.

CROCODILE’S tears.  The tears of a hypocrite.  Crocodiles
  are fabulously reported to shed tears over their prey before
  they devour it.

Crocus, or Crocus METALLORUM.  A nick name for a
  surgeon of the army and navy.

Croker.  A groat, or four pence.

Crone.  An old ewe whose teeth are worn out; figuratively,
  a toothless old beldam.

Crony.  An intimate companion, a comrade; also a confederate
  in a robbery.

Crook.  Sixpence.

Crook back.  Sixpence; for the reason of this name, see
  cripple.

Crook your elbow.  To crook one’s elbow, and wish it
  may never come straight, if the fact then affirmed is not
  true—­according to the casuists of Bow-street and St.
  Giles’s, adds great weight and efficacy to an oath.

Crook shanks.  A nickname for a man with bandy legs. 
  He buys his boots in Crooked Lane, and his stockings
  in Bandy-legged Walk; his legs grew in the night, therefore
  could not see to grow straight; jeering sayings of men
  with crooked legs.

Crop.  A nick name for a presbyterian:  from their cropping
  their hair, which they trimmed close to a bowl-dish,
  placed as a guide on their heads; whence they were likewise
  called roundheads.  See roundheads.

Crop.  To be knocked down for a crop; to be condemned
  to be hanged.  Cropped, hanged.

Cropping drums. Drummers of the foot guards, or Chelsea
  hospital, who find out weddings, and beat a point of
  war to serenade the new married couple, and thereby
  obtain money.

Croppen.  The tail.  The croppen of the rotan; the tail
  of the cart.  Croppen ken:  the necessary-house.  Cant.

CROPSICK.  Sickness in the stomach, arising from drunkenness.

Cross.  To come home by weeping cross; to repent at the
  conclusion.

Cross dishonest. A cross cove; any person who lives by
  stealing or in a dishonest manner.

Cross bite.  One who combines with a sharper to draw in
  a friend; also, to counteract or disappoint.  Cant.—­This
  is peculiarly used to signify entrapping a man so as to obtain
  Crim.  Com. money, in which the wife, real or supposed,
  conspires with the husband.

Cross buttock.  A particular lock or fall in the Broughtonian
  art, which, as Mr. Fielding observes, conveyed more
  pleasant sensations to the spectators than the patient.

Cross patch.  A peevish boy or girl, or rather an unsocial
  ill-tempered man or woman.