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Answers 2 March, 218, col. 1: Last New Year’s Day [...] the old man was up for D and D, trying to break a window with his broom [F&H].at d and d, n.
Answers 2 March, 218, col. 1: Last New Year’s Day [...] the old man was up for D and D, trying to break a window with his broom [F&H]. Answers 9 Feb. [n.p.] A fourth kind of torture was a cell called little ease. It was of so small dimensions, and so constructed, that the prisoner could neither stand, walk, sit, nor lie in it at full length. He was compelled to draw himself up in a a squatting posture, and so remain during several days [F&H].at chapel of little ease (n.) under chapel, n.
Answers 30 Mar. 280/ 2: I am reminded that I have not yet described that horrible institution known as the dark cell – chokey, we convicts called it.at chokey, n.
Answers 9 Feb. n.p.: He was fortunate enough to get chucked, to escape, that is to say, as the evidence against him was not strong enough [F&H].at chuck, v.2
Answers 8 June 25: I have since met several men who I knew in prison [...] only one has stopped me to remind me that we were at ‘college’ together [F&H].at college, n.
Answers 20 July 121/1: He instructed me... on no account to appear to be anxious to pry into their secrets, lest I should be mistaken for a copper’s nark, i.e., a person in the pay of the police [F&H].at copper’s nark (n.) under copper, n.
Answers 20 July 121/2: The state of my crabshells, or boots, pointed to the fact that I had come down in the world [F&H].at crab-shells (n.) under crab, n.1
Answers 27 Juy 137/1: I have drawn up fakements for sham members of almost every trade, always using a leading name at the head of the list of donors [F&H].at fakement, n.
Answers 20 July 121/ 2: If you want to get rid of an importunate tramp tell him to stow his patter, or you will get him a flummut [F&H].at flummut, n.
Answers 13 Apr. 313: At the House of Detention I often noticed such announcements as Jack from Bradford fullied for smashing, and expects seven stretch, i.e. fully committed for trial for passing bad money, and expects seven years penal servitude [F&H].at fullied, adj.
Answers 6 Apr. 297: They all dispersed at once – to put it in their own language, they did a guy [F&H].at do a guy (v.) under guy, n.1
Answers 30 Mar. 280/2: But I am reminded that I have not yet described that horrible institution known as the dark cell – chokey,* we convicts called it. (*‘Hokey-pokey’ is the rhyming slang for it).at hokey-pokey, n.2
Answers 23 Mar. 265/2: When a man jacks up his work – will not do his tasks that is to say [F&H].at jack up, v.1
Answers 27 July 136/1: My associations in the fourpenny lodging ken were such as would have degenerated a stronger character than mine [F&H].at ken, n.1
Answers 27 July 137/I: Begging of all kinds is divided into lurks, or branches [F&H].at lurk, n.
Answers 13 Apr. 313: To such of their own fraternity who ruck or ‘blab’ upon them, they most certainly entertain feelings of the deepest hatred [F&H].at ruck, v.
Answers 25 Dec. n.p.: Last night he slept in his bed when we walked the streets... To think that he should scoop us! [F&H].at scoop in (v.) under scoop, v.
Answers 10 Sept. 276: One kind of back-slang consists of creating a sentence, the last word of which will rhyme with the word [...] ‘Bees and honey’ for ‘money’.at bees (and honey), n.
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