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Graphic (London) 30 Jan. 23/1: ‘Slop’ is a corruption of the so-called backslang version of the word ‘police’ [...] so by this system police becomes ‘esclop’.at esclop, n.
Graphic (London) 30 Jan. 23/1: ‘Slop’ is a corruption of the so-called backslang version of the word ‘police’ [...] so by this system police becomes ‘esclop’. Graphic 26 Mar. in Life and Death at the Old Bailey (1935) 95: ‘To cop’ in thieves’ parlance, is to arrest.at cop, v.
Graphic (London) 3 Dec. 11/2: The man [...] sneered at him as a ‘counter-hopper’.at counter-hopper, n.
Graphic (London) 20 Aug. 11/3: Some girls have carried on to such an extent as to gain the name of ‘Garrison Hacks’.at garrison hack, n.
Graphic 26 March in Life and Death at the Old Bailey (1935) 95: Another slang verb, ‘sloush,’ puzzled the court [...] The policeman rushed forward, and one of the thieves cried, ‘Sloush him!’ The meaning was at once exemplified.at slosh, v.1
Graphic (London) 21 Dec. 3/2: The New Cut, which in medical students’ slang used to be called the Recent Incision.at Recent Incision, the, n.
Graphic (London) 9 Aug. 9/1: Doubtless backers of favourites, with their pockets full of money on Tuesday evening [...] were neatly, if not quite ‘mucked out’ by the next.at mucked (out), adj.
Graphic (London) 28 June 9/2: He who drew the wine was a ‘skinker’.at skinker, n.
Graphic (London) 28 June 9/2: He who drew the wine was a ‘skinker’, a Dutch word; ‘upsee-Dutch’ described the effects of a drinking debauch.at upsee, adj.
Graphic 27 Nov. 6/2: We left the hotel when we heard a great jabbering for ‘baksheesh’.at baksheesh, n.
Graphic (London) 18 Mar. 17/2: Weston walked 450 miles in six days and nights, ‘fair heel and toe’.at heel-and-toe, v.
Graphic (London) 1 Apr. 14/3: Long ago, ere Lady Maud was wrapt in silk / She was sent through Sandy Groves for pigeon’s milk.at pigeon’s milk (n.) under pigeon, n.1
Graphic 29 Sept. 18/3: One of the oldest dodges of the street swindler is to drop a ‘duffing’ ring made in imitation of old jewellery. This trick was successfully practised [...] in Oxford Street [...] he ring-dropper is now in custody.at duffing, adj.
Graphic (London) 29 Dec. 12/2: A Manchester policeman [...] summonsed a gentleman for indluging in the popular exclamation, ‘Whoa, Emma!’ which he considered an ‘obscene expression’.at whoa, Emma, phr.
Graphic 29 Sept. 18/3: One of the oldest dodges of the street swindler is to drop a ‘duffing’ ring made in imitation of old jewellery. This trick was successfully practised [...] in Oxford Street [...] the ring-dropper is now in custody.at ring faller, n.
Graphic (London) 16 Feb. 12/3: Two plain-clothes men had slyly concealed theselves in a doorway of a jeweller’s shop hoping to bag some knight of the jemmy.at ...the jemmy under knight of the..., n.
Graphic (London) 13 Sept. 24/1: We have been here now, ‘at the back of God’s speed’ as our host stules it, since [etc.].at back of God speed under back, adv.
Graphic (London) 28 June 26/3: Only let them wait [...] ‘fogey’ and ‘dolly-mop’ [...] will adorn[...] our popular speech.at dollymop, n.
Graphic (London) 3 June 3/3: In their first innings the Twickenhamites scored 271 [...] against the Kangaroolanders’ meagre 75.at Kangarooland (n.) under kangaroo, n.1
Graphic (London) 13 May 26/1: A vapor floated all about [...] and the bathing rooms, with their scummy waters, are very unattractive.at scummy, adj.
Graphic (London) 15 Apr. 1/1: [picture caption] ‘This village is suspish.’ ‘Confound it, how do they known I’m English’.at suspish, adj.
Graphic 31 Mar. 319/1: The ‘Dude’ sounds like the name of a bird. It is, on the contrary, American slang for a new kind of American young man [...] The one object for which the dude exists is to tone down the eccentricities of fashion [...] The silent, subfusc, subdued ‘dude’ hands down the traditions of good form .at dude, n.1
Graphic 17 Mar. 287/1: If there was one institution which the Anglo-Indian froze to more than another, it was his sit-down supper and – its consequences [F&H].at freeze (on) to (v.) under freeze, v.1
Graphic 26 May 531, 3: Who the moment before had been administering a vigorous jacketing to him anent her neglected wardrobe [F&H].at jacketing, n.
Graphic 12 May 487, col. 3: The Marine... not being either a soldier or a sailor, was generally described as a joey, a jolly, a shell-back, etc [F&H].at jolly, n.1
Graphic (London) 31 Mar. 15/2: Hyde Park Corner may in some way repel the stump orators and mock-litany men who troop out periodically as the champion sof popular interests.at mock litany men, n.
Graphic 17 Mar. 286, 3: Another curious custom of Indian hospitality which extended to a late period [...] was that of inviting visitors, or ‘callers,’ to take beer at eleven o’clock in the forenoon [...] The quantity of bottled ale which a gentleman of the period out peacocking, as it was called, could put inside him [etc.] [F&H].at peacock, v.
Graphic 17 Nov. 494/2: Medicus, the great Cambridgeshire pot, and Thebais, who showed well in that race, were among the runners [F&H].at pot, n.1
Graphic 27 Sept. 5/2: The tradesman shook his head, and explained that ‘fish-bagger’ was a contumelious term applied to those who live in good suburbs ‘without spending a penny there beyond rent for lodgings [...] He goes to town every morning with an empty bag, and returns [...] bringing a little pieve of fish [...] and even his groceries’.at fishbagger (n.) under fish, n.1
Graphic 27 Sept. 315/2: So now, the malefactor does not murder, he ‘pops a man off’, or puts his lights out [F&H].at put someone’s light(s) out (v.) under light, n.
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