What does catch-'em-alive-o mean?

catch-'em-alive-o

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.18 in modern English

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Obsolete; Slang

"1855-1857, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit There were views, like and unlike, of a multitude of places; and there was one little picture-room devoted to a few of the regular sticky old Saints, with sinews like whipcord, hair like Neptune’s, wrinkles like tattooing, and such coats of varnish that every holy personage served for a fly-trap, and became what is now called in the vulgar tongue a Catch-em-alive O."

catch-'em-alive-Os (plural)

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