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N.Y. Daily Trib. 23 Dec. 2/5: A newly arrived abstractionist, i e pickpocket.at abstractionist, n.
N.Y. Daily Trib. 23 Dec. 2/5: A newly arrived abstractionist, i e pickpocket. N.Y. Daily Trib. 28 Sept. 2/5: Busted! — William Henry Basteed, Proprietor of the Buffalo Penny Press, has left that city after cheating his washer-woman and effecting a fair amount of kindred petty villainies.at busted (out), adj.
N.Y. Daily Trib. 15 July 2/5: Being caught ‘fowl,’ as the parlance is, [he] confessed he stole the pocket book and money, and stated that he was alone in the transaction — which is not true, as two or three always go together, one to steal and the other or others to receive and conceal the property stolen.at foul, adv.
N.Y. Daily Trib. 31 Aug. 2/4: [headline] Arrest of a Thimble Rigger.at thimble-rigger, n.
N.Y. Daily Trib. 28 July 2/4: Look out for the New World [a publication] of next Saturday. It will be a screamer!at screamer, n.
N.Y. Daily Trib. 28 Sept. 2/5: William Henry Basteed, Proprietor of the Buffalo Penny Press, has left that city after cheating his washer-woman and effecting a fair amount of kindred petty villainies. [...] He has probably taken the ‘Sabine slide.’.at take the Sabine slide (v.) under slide, n.
N.Y. Daily Trib. 27 Aug. 2/3: Theft at a Trap house. [headline] [...] while in bed he saw a secret panel of the room open, and a huge black fellow thrust his head in, take the pocket-book and money from his pantaloons’ pocket, and then withdraw, closing the panel after him.at trap house (n.) under trap, n.1
N.Y. Daily Trib. 16 Apr. 1/1: [headline] Who are the Pipe-Layers?at pipe-layer, n.
N.Y. Daily Trib. 6 June 4/3: [headline] A Dutch Roping-in Game.at roped game (n.) under rope, v.
N.Y. Daily Trib. 10 May 3/1: This ‘shindig’ as it was called, was a scene of great violence, riot and disorder.at shindig, n.
N.Y. Daily Trib. 13 Nov. 4/1: A drop gamester named Charles Granger.at drop gamester (n.) under drop game, n.
N.Y. Daily Trib. 9 Nov. 2/3: Reward of Merit. [headline] 1. A Leather Medal each – very thick and solid. . . . [to some voters]. A pair of horn goggles – regular dead-eyes – [to other voters].at goggles, n.
N.Y. Daily Trib. 4 Oct. 2/5: [Thieves force] the lock of the front door with a ‘London Jemmy,’ or short crowbar found in their possession.at jemmy, n.3
N.Y. Daily Trib. 9 Nov. 2/3: Reward of Merit. [headline] 1. A Leather Medal each – very thick and solid. . . . [to some voters]. A pair of horn goggles – regular dead-eyes – [to other voters].at leather medal (n.) under leather, adj.
N.Y. Daily Trib. 1 July 2/6: [headline] Stealing a Watch from a Snoozer.at snoozer, n.1
N.Y. Daily Trib. 27 July 1/5: The Touch Game Again. [...] She is well known to the police officers as an adept at the touch game.at touch game (n.) under touch, n.1
N.Y. Daily Trib. 23 Sept. 2/5: A noted colored thief and ‘toucher’ [is arrested; he] for a long time has been in the habit, aided by a mulatto girl, of inveigling strangers into their den and robbing them by means of the secret panel.at toucher, n.2
N.Y. Daily Trib. 7 June 2/5: One verdant [...] lost $290 and his gold watch on the ‘little joker,’ [...] but . . . there was very little sympathy expressed for one fool enough to risk his money on the thimbles.at little joker (n.) under little, adj.
N.Y. Daily Trib. 22 June 3/1: [headline] Panel Robbery. [...] Joseph Lewis [...] was last night inveigled into a secret panel house, at the corner of Leonard and Hudson streets, by a girl named Louisa Fisher.at panel crib (n.) under panel, n.1
N.Y. Daily Trib. 29 Dec. 2/3: The swindler who played the part of ‘Peter Funk’ and persuaded the stranger to pay $20 to the boy who was running off with the pocket book rather than have the unfortunate loser robbed of his money, finally left the victim standing before a store which he represented as his brother’s while he went for the key to open it.at Peter Funk, n.
N.Y. Daily Trib. 18 Nov. 1/2: Pickpockets are perfectly horrified at the idea of being thus exposed, and when threatened with it, beg most piteously to be let off. A month’s imprisonment is nothing, in their estimation, when compared with this newly established mode of ‘spotting’ cross boys.at cross-boy (n.) under cross, adj.
N.Y. Daily Trib. 15 Oct. 2/2: Bob Neil was [arrested] for trying to ‘come the drop game’.at drop game, n.
N.Y. Daily Trib. 29 Jan. 4/1: G.H. Fielding, being ‘three shillings short of any change,’ undertook to replenish his pockets by robbing his own mother.at change, n.
N.Y. Daily Trib. 12 July 2/5: We accepted Capt. Kellett’s invitation to a little Chow-Chow (chaw-chaw, dinner) with him. The dinner, though served on board the junk, was not composed of Chinese dishes, not a single rat or joint of a young puppy being on the table.at chow-chow, n.1
N.Y. Daily Trib. 9 July 3/1: A fellow named William Cooney [was] charged with having ‘sponged’ a watch from an emigrant named Dennis Dumack.at sponge, v.
N.Y. Daily Trib. 16 Oct. 2/6: [headline] Thick as Three in a Bed.at ...three in a bed under thick as..., adj.
N.Y. Daily Trib. 14 Nov. 1/5: The Races. – Lady Suffolk and the pacing horse Dan Miller had a brush at Centreville course yesterday, in which the former lost one and won two heats.at brush, n.1
N.Y. Daily Trib. 30 Nov. 1/5: They complain of the bad conduct of some of the soldier supes of Otello who go into the amphitheatre after they have finished their duties on the stage and cut up shindies.at kick up a shindy (v.) under shindy, n.
N.Y. Daily Trib. 30 Nov. 1/5: They complain of the bad conduct of some of the soldier supes of Otello who go into the amphitheatre after they have finished their duties on the stage and cut up shindies.at supe, n.
N.Y. Daily Trib. 18 Sept. 5/6: God help any man who attempts to enter the above ‘crib’ alone, to deposit his ballot without their sanction.at crib, n.1
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