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Grafter (1922) 8: ‘After us taking weeks to get it together [...] you blow the bank’.at blow, v.2
Grafter (1922) 8: ‘After us taking weeks to get it together [...] you blow the bank’. Grafter (1922) 25: ‘Got your brief?’ The Mug dived into his pocket a produced a [betting] ticket.at brief, n.1
Grafter (1922) 99: The ‘game’ was a bubble with Skinny.at bubble, n.1
Grafter (1922) 84: I had, perforce, to wooden him on the back of [his head] with the stick, and it didn’t even ‘buzz’ him’.at buzz, v.1
Grafter (1922) 25: ‘He has only to stake to win. It’s all cop with him’.at cop, n.2
Grafter (1922) 90: ‘I’ve been so long hard up against the cushion that I’ll have to do something or I’ll bust’.at (hard) up against the cushion under cushion, n.
Grafter (1922) 24: ‘He’s been winning every night [...] and I’m sure he’s getting it under the cushion some way or another’.at under the cushion under cushion, n.
Grafter (1922) 1: [B]eing careful to keep two or three horses which he lnew would be well backed under the cushion.at under the cushion under cushion, n.
Grafter (1922) 1: [of betting, very attractive odds] The shorter-priced horses, which he laid at dynamite odds.at dynamite, adj.
Grafter (1922) 47: He’ll never have a good winning day if he dynamites them the way he is doing now.at dynamite, v.
Grafter (1922) 4: ‘Stop him. I’ll give a fiver to the hospital if they yard him’.at fiver, n.
Grafter (1922) 4: ‘[Y]ou’ll have to get to work on that [betting] ticket [...] You’re on the usual. ‘It’s a go’.at go, n.1
Grafter (1922) 4: ‘[Y]ou’ll have to get to work on that [betting] ticket [...] A Jay’s got it, and it will be dead easy’.at jay, n.1
Grafter (1922) 115: ‘He ran a furlong last at “Kenso” you know’.at Kenso, n.
Grafter (1922) 46: ‘Jinker could give most of them a day’s start and a licking’.at licking, n.
Grafter (1922) 120: Then producing a handful of sovereigns, Davis counted the minto the upturned palm [sic].at minto, n.
Grafter (1922) 84: ‘[H]e muzzled me. I suppose he thought I was silvery, He’s a mug garrotter, or he wouldn’t have picked me out’.at mug, adj.
Grafter (1922) 84: ‘[H]e muzzled me. I suppose he thought I was silvery, He’s a mug garrotter, or he wouldn’t have picked me out’.at muzzle, v.
Grafter (1922) 49: ‘I can guarantee that hes trying, because I got the right oil about it’.at straight oil (n.) under oil, n.
Grafter (1922) 4: ‘[Y]ou’ll have to get to work on that [betting] ticket [...] You’re on the usual’.at on, prep.
Grafter (1922) 59: [T]hey were a little bit previous, and doomed to disappointment.at previous, adj.
Grafter (1922) 32: I can mark a pack of ‘readers’ with the next man — readers good enough to pass muster in a game of poker with ordinary players.at reader, n.
Grafter (1922) 25: ‘If he were working a ready you would think that he would lose now and then so as not to draw attention to himself’.at ready, n.
Grafter (1922) 1: Then he dug into the ‘rough stuff’. The Grafter knew his business.at roughie, n.1
Grafter (1922) 103: ‘I’ll take twelve to six,’ he mumbled faintly. He was set instantly.at set, v.
Grafter (1922) 84: ‘[H]e muzzled me. I suppose he thought I was silvery’.at silvery (adj.) under silver, adj.
Grafter (1922) 4: ‘Skinner?’ queried the little man. ‘Skinner?’ said The Grafter. He was my absolute worst’.at skinner, n.1
Grafter (1922) 25: ‘[H]e’d stand up behind the players, broke to the world, keeping his eye out for “sleepers”’.at sleeper, n.
Grafter (1922) 4: [of a bookmaker tipping his clerk] ‘How does he sling?’ ‘Fair’.at sling, v.
Grafter (1922) 4: ‘[Y]ou’ll have to get to work on that [betting] ticket [...] Get some of the boys to give you a smother, and when he goes to put it in, dive on it and see you don’t miss’.at smother, n.
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