get it here | In the 19th Century Victorian British underworld slang, playing-cards were called broads. Playing a game of cards was known as 'Spreading Broads.' Cheating at cards was called 'broading' and a card sharp was called a 'broadsman'. Tossing Broads is a gaffed game that cannot be beat; hence, the broad tosser plays a gaffed joint, or flat joint. A Three-Card Monte game with the prevailing myth is that the broad tossers used a queen as the winning card, and would say 'Find the Lady.'
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