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New Call (Perth, WA) 17 Dec. 1/1: Most of them took to the ‘coke’ or ‘snow’ racket.at coke, n.1
New Call (Perth, WA) 17 Dec. 1/1: Most of them took to the ‘coke’ or ‘snow’ racket. New Call (Perth, WA) 17 Dec. 1/3: [I]t was nothing to see a side-walk sister spend £5 every night on the drug, which usually represented about one-third of their night’s takings for soliciting.at sidewalk sister (n.) under sidewalk, n.
New Call (Perth, WA) 17 Dec. 1/1: Most of them took to the ‘coke’ or ‘snow’ racket.at snow, n.1
New Call (Perth, WA) 24 Dec. 5/3: ‘It’s no laughing matter,’ said Bill, who was now ‘well sprung’.at sprung, adj.
New Call (Perth, WA) 17 Dec. 1/3: ‘There's so little cash about these days that the street tarts have got to take dole tickets!’.at tart, n.
New Call (Perth, WA) 7 Apr. 3/4: A bird that has only Just escaped from his ‘cage’ after doing a ‘stretch’.at bird, n.1
New Call (Perth, WA) 14 Jan. 2/4: ‘This “blue” [i.e. a gun battle] ’as been brewing fer days now, and I knew there was going to be trouble; but, struth, I never thought ’e’d ’ave ther guts ter shoot’.at blue, n.4
New Call (Perth, WA) 24 Nov. 3/2: ‘Mabel,’ the ‘Queen’ of London's underworld [...] the ‘brains’ of one of the most powerful smash-and-grab gangs the Yard has ever been up against.at brain, n.1
New Call (Perth, WA) 31 Mar. 12/1: [T]hieves and robbers conduct their ‘businesses’ with flagrant disregard for the law.at business, n.
New Call (Perth, WA) 7 Apr. 3/4: A bird that has only Just escaped from his ‘cage’ after doing a ‘stretch’.at cage, n.
New Call (Perth, WA) 7 Apr. 3/5: In former times an ‘open go’ was afforded, and a winner simply had to take the risk, Sometimes he got through unscathed, more often he was ‘choked’ before he got fifty yards.at choke, v.
New Call (Perth, WA) 7 Apr. 3/4: When one of these ultra-respectable citizens [...] has a decent win, and desires to ‘chuck it,’ he is guaranteed safe conduct [...] nobody must leave, and a taxi is secured to
convey him to his home.at chuck it, v.
New Call (Perth, WA) 21 Apr. 12/8: I recognised the prettiest collection of criminal talent I have ever seen outside a police station. [...] ‘Giggling Dot,’ ‘Cokey Edna,’ and several other notorious women law
breakers.at cokey, adj.
New Call (Perth, WA) 14 Jan. 2/4: ‘I’d better “drum” Gladys when she comes home’.at drum, v.2
New Call (Perth, WA) 7 Apr. 3/1: In days that were, big hazard schools flourished in most
of the States and the men who made money by running them are in ‘Easy-street’ to-day.at easy street, n.
New Call (Perth, WA) 7 Apr. 3/5: In former times an ‘open go’ was afforded, and a winner simply had to take the risk, Sometimes he got through unscathed, more often he was ‘choked’ before he got fifty yards.at fair go, n.
New Call (Perth, WA) 21 Apr. 12/7: [A] young woman [...] informed the company that she had just ‘touched off’ a ‘gay’ which I learned meant that she had picked a man’s pocket.at gay, n.1
New Call (Perth, WA) 21 Apr. 12/7: ‘There’s enough cocaine in that saucer to send them all in the horrors for the rest of the night’.at horrors, the, n.
New Call (Perth, WA) 28 Jan. 12/7: Male drug addicts lurk in dark doorways for the homecoming ‘nymph de pave,’ and they hold her up at gun point to steal her evilly begotten few shillings so that they can satisfy the craving for cocaine.at nymph of the pavé, n.
New Call (Perth, WA) 7 Apr. 3/4: In every ‘well-conducted’ hazard school is to be found what is known as the ‘Out-backer,’ [...] He [...] is a man of substance, and is not a gambler, in the strict sense of the term. It is not unusual for him to ‘sit behind’ a thousand or two, and he has figured out the chances long before being installed.at outbacker, n.
New Call (Perth, WA) 14 Jan. 2/4: ‘They turned us over the other day, and found a gun’.at turn over, v.1
New Call (Perth, WA) 7 Apr. 3/4: He never takes his eyes off the ‘Peter’ for a moment. Deft fingers would ring in the ‘crookeis’ [sic] if he left himself open, or the dummy had his attention drawn elsewhere for a momen.at peter, n.3
New Call (Perth, WA) 21 Apr. 12/7: ‘I want some “Angie”.’ ‘How much do you want?’ inquired the voice. ‘Oh! better give me eight “rears”,’ was the reply.at rear, n.
New Call (Perth, WA) 7 Apr. 3/4: [The gambling school] is far removed from the beat of the average pedestrian — likewise the ‘Jack’ and his sticky-beak propensities.at stickybeak, n.
New Call (Perth, WA) 7 Apr. 3/4: A bird that has only Just escaped from his ‘cage’ after doing a ‘stretch’.at stretch, n.
New Call (Perth, WA) 21 Apr. 12/7: [A] young woman [...] informed the company that she had just ‘touched off’ a ‘gay’ which I learned meant that she had picked a man’s pocket.at touch, v.1
New Call (Perth, WA) 14 Jan. 2/4: ‘[I]f them “Demons” wake that Jimmy was livin’ with er they’ll be down ‘ere’.at wake up, v.
New Call (Perth, WA) 13 Apr. 19/3: Dirty little vagabonds down the hill in the Loo have cause to re member that little indiscretion.at Loo, the, n.
New Call (Perth, WA) 2 Feb. 17/1: [He was] by no means reluctant to ‘top off’ any of his associates.at top off, v.
New Call (Perth, WA) 6 July 1/3: ‘Then the cafe went smash and we all lost our jobs’.at go (to) smash (v.) under smash, n.1
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