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Sketch (London) 25 Oct. 14/2: What a joke / To amalgamte skilly and toke.at skilly and toke (n.) under skilly, n.1
Sketch (London) 25 Oct. 14/2: What a joke / To amalgamte skilly and toke. Sketch (London) 22 Feb. 18: ‘I paid the pots (beer) all roun’ an’ gort me belt as one of the “Brums”’.at belt, n.
Sketch (London) 22 Feb. 18: ‘We pay a bob (shilling) a week fer bein’ members [of a thieves’ club], an’ the “bloke” gives us the tip when there’s any oof ter be made on a job’.at bloke, n.
Sketch (London) 22 Feb. 18: ‘I didn’t have the togs fer ter bust er house with, ’cause yer can’t carry around a lot of “relievers” (that’s jimmies an’ bars an’ false keys)’.at bust, v.1
Sketch (London) 22 Feb. 18: ‘No, we don’t “ring the changes” much (passing countefeit coins), it’s too risky’.at ring the changes, v.
Sketch (London) 22 Feb. 18: ‘If they gits yer “dial” in the Rogues’ Gallery yer don’ stand no show at all [...] They ain’t got my “clock” there yit’.at clock, n.1
Sketch (London) 22 Feb. 18: ‘I dipped ’is kettle and parst it along’.at dip, v.2
Sketch (London) 22 Feb. 18: ‘They had done it in at the “Spank” an’ we divides up six quid (sovereigns), fer it was a nice red lot ’.at do in, v.
Sketch (London) 22 Feb. 18: A ‘fence’ means [...] a place for selling stolen goods.at fence, n.1
Sketch (London) 22 Feb. 18: One crime a night is the average brisk record of “Scrappers’ Alley” [...] a blind court where the unwary or drunken can be robbed and gagged at leisure.at gag, v.
Sketch 24 525/1: When we got into cantonments [...] I walked down after him, and, as I got outside the hut, he saw me coming along and called out, ‘Hallo, Gravel-crusher!’.at gravel-crusher (n.) under gravel, n.
Sketch (London) 22 Feb. 18: ‘I didn’t have the togs fer ter bust er house with, ’cause yer can’t carry around a lot of “relievers” (that’s jimmies an’ bars an’ false keys)’.at jemmy, n.3
Sketch (London) 22 Feb. 18: ‘I run up against a toff with a jerry and slang (watch and chain) strung across ’is weskit’.at jerry, n.6
Sketch (London) 22 Feb. 18: ‘We meets in the kip house (lodging house)’ .at kiphouse (n.) under kip, n.1
Sketch (London) 22 Feb. 18: ‘I paid the pots (beer) all roun’’.at pot, n.1
Sketch (London) 22 Feb. 18: ‘I didn’t have the togs fer ter bust er house with, ’cause yer can’t carry around a lot of “relievers” (that’s jimmies an’ bars an’ false keys)’.at reliever, n.
Sketch (London) 22 Feb. 18: ‘Another o’ the crowd catches ’im a ripper be’ind’ .at ripper, n.1
Sketch (London) 22 Feb. 18: One crime a night is the average brisk record of ‘Scrappers’ Alley’ [...] a blind court where the unwary or drunken can be robbed and gagged at leisure.at scrapper, n.
Sketch (London) 22 Feb. 18: ‘If they gits yer “dial” in the Rogues’ Gallery yer don’ stand no show at all’.at show, n.
Sketch (London) 22 Feb. 18: ‘Them Jews they’ll skin yer if they kin’.at skin, v.1
Sketch (London) 22 Feb. 18: ’They’s a lot of stryte “fences” up at the “Spank” (that’s Petticoat Lane)’.at spank, n.1
Sketch (London) 22 Feb. 18: ‘They had done it in at the “Spank” an’ we divides up six quid (sovereigns), fer it was a nice red lot ’.at spank, n.1
Sketch (London) 22 Feb. 18: Look at that there kettle [...] an’ them sparkles! (diamonds) .at sparkle, n.
Sketch (London) 22 Feb. 18: ‘Then there’s a committee, they’re spotters, an’ gits the tips on the good jobs to work, an’ they tells us off for the biz’.at spotter, n.1
Sketch (London) 22 Feb. 18: ‘I got a charnst to pinch a good haul, but they’s a couple of stops (police) twiggin’ me gyme’.at stop, n.1
Sketch (London) 22 Feb. 18: ‘I was over West, in a theayter crowd, but there wos two peelers onter me’.at up West under West, n.
Sketch (London) 26 Feb. 22/1: She and her father always made me feel as they could see through a brick wall.at see through a brick wall (v.) under see, v.
Sketch 93 198: The soul-shattering sound of a great ratchet-wheel going at full bat over the edge of a piece of iron.at at full bat (adv.) under bat, n.3
Sketch (London) 24 May 20/1: Phillip said [...] ‘got to see a dog about a man,’ and then vanished.at see a dog about a man (v.) under see, v.
Sketch (London) 7 Feb. 30/2: No one can want short, eel-skin skirts, and they would not be economical if they have not width, they must have length.at eel skin, n.3
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