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Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 29 Dec. 14/3: ‘I won’t queer your deal. I’ll give you a downer and then you must sham Abraham’.at sham abram, v.
Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 29 Dec. 14/3: ‘I won’t queer your deal. I’ll give you a downer and then you must sham Abraham’. Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 22 Dec. 12/2: ‘We’ll have some hot coffee, my little bantam’.at bantam, n.
Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 15 Dec. 12/2: ‘Oh, you are on that game still, are you? Won’t give no coin unless I make the boy a thief or a gallow bird’.at gallows-bird, n.
Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 8 Dec. 12/1: ‘[T]he old gent below would melt it [i.e. silver plate] in his pot a blarmed sight quicker than we shall in ourn’.at blame, adj.
Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 8 Dec. 12/1: ‘[I]t won’t take us a jiffy to bunk over to the back and give the office to the Badger’.at bunk, v.1
Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 15 Dec. 12/1: ‘I funked his bringing the cove here, but he laughed, told to cheese my patter, and went out’.at cheese, v.1
Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 8 Dec. 12/1: ‘Did you see those two covees t’other side of the way?’.at covee, n.
Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 29 Dec. 14/3: ‘If this vicious-looking cuss gets that blooming gag out o his tater-trap [etc]’.at cuss, n.1
Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 22 Dec. 12/1: ‘In five minutes time we shall be in [...] the Dials’.at Dials, the, n.
Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 29 Dec. 14/3: ‘I won’t queer your deal. I’ll give you a downer and then you must sham Abraham’.at downer, n.4
Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 15 Dec. 12/1: ‘He collared a finney (five pound note) out his cly (pocket) and bundled the cove into the coal hole’.at fin, n.2
Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 8 Dec. 12/1: ‘I don’t think as they nosed us, Jemmy’ [...] ‘[T]hey was a-foxing of summat the other way’.at fox, v.2
Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 15 Dec. 12/1: ‘I funked his bringing the cove here, but he laughed, told to cheese my patter, and went out’.at funk, v.2
Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 15 Dec. 12/1: It was a gruesome, horrible hole, smelling vilely of foul tobacco, onions, fish, cheese, and fried bacon.at hole, n.1
Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 8 Dec. 12/1: ‘I wonders if the old barrow-night has pegged out yet. [...] I’ve heard as he’s been a hot ’un in his time; if he slings his hook to-night he’ll go off with fireworks.at sling one’s hook, v.
Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 8 Dec. 12/1: ‘I wonders if the old barrow-night has pegged out yet. Don’t like a-dying, these rich blokes don’t. I’ve heard as he’s been a hot ’un in his time; if he slings his hook to-night he’ll go off with fireworks.at hot one, n.
Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 8 Dec. 12/3: ‘Perhaps we shall meet again at one of those lummy hotels what is sittiwated at Portland and Wormwood Scrubbs’.at hotel, n.
Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 15 Dec. 12/4: ‘I’ll knife the jagger (gentleman) and pitch his carcass into the well-hole’.at jagger, n.1
Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 15 Dec. 12/2: ‘[Y]ou’ll get nothing out of me while you play the fool with that Kinchen.’ The housebreaker with a scowl here pointed to a little, pale-faced lad of about twelve years of age.at kinchin, n.
Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 15 Dec. 12/2: ‘We all know you’d like Stab to cop a lifer’.at lifer, n.
Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 8 Dec. 12/3: ‘Perhaps we shall meet again at one of those lummy hotels what is sittiwated at Portland and Wormwood Scrubbs’.at lummy, adj.
Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 8 Dec. 12/1: ‘[H]is pals is a-waiting to collar and mizzle with the barrownight’s plate and wallybles’.at mizzle, v.
Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 29 Dec. 14/4: ‘I want just eighteen pounds [...] You’ve five days to hunt up the needful’.at needful, n.
Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 8 Dec. 12/1: ‘Did you see those two covees t’other side of the way?’ [...] ‘A copper and a split (detective) with him.’ ‘I don’t think as they nosed us’.at nose, v.
Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 15 Dec. 12/1: He’s snide. Bill—too much the old soldier he is for me.at old soldier, n.
Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 15 Dec. 12/1: Stab will land some of us in the pig! He only came out of the Steel (House of Correction, Pentonville) yesterday, and plays this ’ere game to-night. He’s snide. Bill—too much the old soldier he is for me.at pig, n.
Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 8 Dec. 12/1: ‘This ’ere is the crib [...] The best plant, Jem, we’ve had for a blooming long spell’.at plant, n.
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Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 15 Dec. 12/1: In one of the turnings off Seven Dials, stood an old, tumbledown, grim-looking tenement known all [as] the Rats’ Castle.at rats’ castle (n.) under rat, n.1
Vultures of the City in Illus. Police News 29 Dec. 14/3: ‘A reader (pocket-book) full of flimsies’.at reader, n.
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