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Underworld 20: The acky is acquafortis wth which a fence wll test every mllmetre of every article alleged to be gold.at acky, n.
Underworld 20: The acky is acquafortis wth which a fence wll test every mllmetre of every article alleged to be gold. Underworld 156: ‘[T]hey’re all right. Of course he meant that they were all wrong, as far as the law [...] were concerned.at all right, adj.
Underworld 68: ‘Alls-bay’ was always Dingo Denny’s rejoinder.at allsbay, n.
Underworld 181: ‘Pipe the iron with the long barnet. Eye-eye the iron’s cock-an’. Nit the iron’.at cock and hen, n.
Underworld 68: [note] Humourous slang — for example aper-pay = paper.at aper-pay, n.
Underworld 21: A strong-arm chap is [...] a bruiser, one who, for a pound or two, will punch someone on the nose.at strong-arm man (n.) under strong-arm, adj.
Underworld 181: ‘Pipe the iron with the long barnet. Eye-eye the iron’s cock-an’. Nit the iron’.at barnet (fair), n.
Underworld 48: [W]hen needs must — I will [...] cross a strange forest in the black before dawnng .at black, n.
Underworld 27: [M]y second geezer blows along just in time.at blow in, v.2
Underworld 177: Another corner-man may be covering a big street bookie.at bookie, n.
Underworld 21: [T]he bruiser was wanted for some separate private affair.at bruiser, n.
Underworld 164: [T]he hunting-man will not be a sadist or a bundler [...] [W]e leave the bundlers [...] looking for [...] some one they can flog without danger to themselves.at bundler, n.
Underworld 164: [I]n Society generally those things are not said. We burke the discussion, hide the facts, and prate the silly pretences.at burke, v.
Underworld 26: [of an office] ‘Wants a screwsman to do his gaff, stick three burnts, and lolly the peter’.at burnt (cinder), n.
Underworld 89: ‘[H]e were the best man for miles on a stiff-burnt’.at stiff-burnt (n.) under burnt (cinder), n.
Underworld 179: To carve a person is to break an agreement, to cheat some person out of a reward agred.at carve, v.
Underworld 34: ‘I chatted you a few words’.at chat, v.1
Underworld 13: He had no ‘chatting-china’ — [...] no regular companion with whom to to exchange the lip-still mutterings on the exercise yard.at chatting-china (n.) under chat, v.1
Underworld 27: ‘Partners they were, the two geezers. [...] And each one was doing his china down’.at china (plate), n.
Underworld 46: The chiv is a wooden handle, wth a safety-razor blade embedded more or less deeply so it will slash a man’s face without quite cutting hs head off.at chiv, n.1
Underworld 23: A chiv-man is a professional razor-slasher, who wll mark a man’s face [...] for any sum from one to five pounds.at chiv artist (n.) under chiv, n.1
Underworld 83: [A] good man could clean out the whole towen of Keswick in one night.at clean out, v.
Underworld 69: [E]very one present waited to see whether it was a con-trick.at con, adj.
Underworld 35: ‘You can’t con an honest man’.at con, v.
Underworld 175: A corner-man is the underworld equivalent of a policeman on point-duty!at corner man (n.) under corner, n.2
Underworld 179: On one occasion Alf cornered a strip-flick for Freddy Vice.at corner, v.
Underworld 23: [E]xtractng some weird sum [...] as his ‘corner’.at corner, n.1
Underworld 13: [A] single burglar, a solitary representative of the cracksman class.at cracksman, n.1
Underworld 87: [E]ven they [i.e. two thugs] was near creased with the cold.at creased, adj.
Underworld 181: Freddy drops down stone-cold dead [...] Creased.at creased, adj.
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