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by alex_hitchins 3183 days ago
If you like UK slang, look up what 'An Archer' is. Still hear this used today and it never fails to make me smile.
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I think this might actually be hard to google.

An archer is £2000, the amount Conservative Party deputy chairman Jeffrey Archer was caught paying a prostitute to keep quiet about his allegedly being a client of hers.

I first heard this usage on The New Statesman (the Rick Mayall TV comedy), but it may have originated elsewhere.