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[quote=DODGER,392258]HB, Dodger, or to give him his full title ‘The Artfully Dodger‘ is one of Charles Dickens’ characters from the novel ‘Oliver Twist’
He was a thief and pick pocket. He was eventually caught and sent to the penal colony of Australia, as I was.
It’s also rhyming slang for a lodger or someone called Roger.
Dickens described him as; 
“He was a snub-nosed, flat-browed, common-faced boy enough; and as dirty a juvenile as one would wish to see; but he had about him all the airs and manners of a man. He was short of his age: with rather bow-legs, and little, sharp, ugly eyes. His hat was stuck on the top of his head so lightly, that it threatened to fall off every moment--and would have done so, very often, if the wearer had not had a knack of every now and then giving his head a sudden twitch, which brought it back to its old place again. He wore a man's coat, which reached nearly to his heels. He had turned the cuffs back, half-way up his arm, to get his hands out of the sleeves: apparently with the ultimate view of thrusting them into the pockets of his corduroy trousers; for there he kept them. He was, altogether, as roystering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six, or something less, in the bluchers.”
Sounds just like me.
Cheers, Dodger.
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