coniacker
A counterfeiter, a dealer in counterfeit money.
Noun
- A counterfeiter, a dealer in counterfeit money.
- Among the notables we were shown [was] Biebusch, the coniacker, who was sent up from St. Louis about three months ago for ten years for the making and shoving of the queer. - 1880, “Penitentiary Points — The "Ledger...
- Twenty-eight men cover this entire country hunting out counterfeits and counterfeiters, devising intricate schemes to catch the coniacker red handed in his infamous work. - 1891, “The Government Secret Service”, in...
- "I sold my stock [...] and received in payment five counterfeit one-thousand-dollar-bills!" "What! You insolent man! You dare to tell me to my face that you recognize in me a coniacker or shover of the queer?" - 1899,...
Origin
From Cogniac Street, a location in Dunham, Quebec close to the United States-Canada border from which a significant amount of counterfeiting took place in the 18th century and early 19th century.