籠かご抜ぬけ

noun

slipping out the back way with swindled goods

Historical term for a specific Edo-period scam: a customer in a brothel or similar establishment would sneak out without paying, often taking items with them. Rarely used in modern Japanese outside historical contexts.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの遊ゆう郭かくでは、籠かご抜ぬけは重じゅう罪ざいだった。

  In Edo-period pleasure quarters, slipping out with swindled goods was a serious crime.