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Nether Side of NY 160: [T]hese gentlemanly marauders never ‘take a trick’ at home; so far, I am informed, no robbery has ever been committed in the house.at turn a trick, v.1
Nether Side of NY 160: [T]hese gentlemanly marauders never ‘take a trick’ at home; so far, I am informed, no robbery has ever been committed in the house. Nether Side of NY 91: [R]ecovering the property, without his fellows declaring that it has been ‘a dead give-away,’ whereby they mean to say that no skill has been displayed in the matter, because the detective has been guided from the outset by the thief who stole the plunder.at give-away, n.
Nether Side of N.Y. 55: Two men from the same [private detective’s] office are often detailed to ‘shadow’, one the husband and the other the wife, and it occasionally happens that they do a little business on private account by ‘giving away’ each other. That is to say, the husband’s man informs the wife she is watched, and gives her a minute description of her ‘shadow’ for which information he of course gets an adequate reward, which the wife’s man likewise earns and receives by doing the same kindly office for the husband.at give away, v.
Nether Side of NY 140: When the proper time arrived [. . .] the ‘badger’ stole into the room through the secret door [...] and having rifled the clothes of the stranger [...] crept back to his hiding-place and closed the panel behind him [...] This was the original panel game, but it has long been utterly obsolete.at badger, n.1
Nether Side of NY 16: Safe-blowers do not have more than seventy-five names upon their muster-rolls, but the little army is far more dangerous to the hoarded wealth than its numbers indicate.at blower, n.3
Nether Side of NY 17: Safe-breakers are the lowest grade of operators upon the vaunted burglar-proof receptacles [...] They rely solely upon main force both in entering a building and in working upon the safe, as they pry the first open with a ‘jimmey,’ or small hand-bar, and belabor the latter with a hammer until it falls to pieces.at breaker, n.1
Nether Side of NY 17: Safe-bursters, do not out-number the blowers, and gain access to the building by the same means; but henceforward are more artistic and less daring.at burster, n.1
Nether Side of NY 17: Safe-breakers [...] are less successful than the other classes, and are more frequently ‘coppered’—that is, arrested.at copper, v.2
Nether Side of NY 93: [W]hether guided by the better class of ropers into the first-class saloons, or by these viler ones into the low cribs [...] they are the vivification of all gambling.at crib, n.1
Nether Side of NY 142: The chief difference between the inmates [of a ‘parlor house"] and the street-walkers is that the former do not cruise the streets to entice strangers to their dens.at cruise, v.
Nether Side of NY 16: Damper-sneaks are a little company not more than one hundred in number. By ‘damper,’ a thief means a safe, for the reason that it is supposed to put a damper upon his hopes.at damper-sneak (n.) under damper, n.2
Nether Side of NY 159: [I]n detective parlance every foul place is a ‘dive,’ whether it be a cellar or garret, or neither.at dive, n.2
Nether Side of N.Y. 72: Gift jewelry, prize candy, ‘Milton gold,’ gift concerts, dollar stores [...] and circular swindles of every description, have been only a few of his devices for wheedling people of their money.at dollar store (n.) under dollar, n.1
Nether Side of NY 185: [A] ‘duffer,’ by which name the police mean one who, following some honest pursuit during the day, occasionally sallies forth at night to commit a house robbery.at duffer, n.1
Nether Side of NY 23: [T]hose desperate thieves the police style ‘hangers-up,’ who steal upon a man in some private place, bind him hand and foot, and after robbing him leisurely and effectually, go away.at hang up, v.2
Nether Side of NY 15: [Bank sneaks] infest in turn every large city, or, in the words of a policeman who knows every one of them, ‘they jump into a town, work the street for a couple of days, and then hop away’.at hop, v.1
Nether Side of N.Y. 106: A player had a ‘saddle’ when any two of the numbers he selects are drawn, [...] and a ‘horse’ when the four appear.at horse, n.
Nether Side of N.Y. 143: These are houses a shade more sufferable [...] and are filled with women who do not shock at the first glance.at house, n.1
Nether Side of NY 17: They rely solely upon main force both in entering a building and in working upon the safe, as they pry the first open with a ‘jimmey,’ or small hand-bar, and belabor the latter with a hammer until it falls to pieces.at jimmy, n.2
Nether Side of NY 122: In police parlance, they ‘put up a job on her.’ Captain Thorne was secreted in a closet in the office the next time she called, and the gentleman talked to her as previously arranged.at put up a job (on) (v.) under job, n.2
Nether Side of NY 15: [Bank sneaks] infest in turn every large city, or, in the words of a policeman who knows every one of them, ‘they jump into a town, work the street for a couple of days, and then hop away’.at jump, v.
Nether Side of NY 142: Lost women [...] burdened almost without exception with ‘lovers’ who despoil them of the pittance they receive for moral and physical death [...] no class needs so much of pity.at lover, n.
Nether Side of NY 92: The words being spoken at two o’clock in the morning in a basement coffee saloon which had the one merit of cheapness, and the speakers being men of generally mildewed appearance.at mildewed, adj.
Nether Side of NY 21: [I]f a forger is content to cheat them out of small amounts they pocket the loss in silence, and never report the matter to the police at all [but] [s]ometimes the forgers strike so heavily that the bank forgets its caution and ‘squeals’ with exceeding liveliness.at squeal (on), v.
Nether Side of NY 21: Confidence-operators exist only because fools and their money can be easily parted.at operator, n.
Nether Side of N.Y. 143: For some years past a most deplorable change has been going on which has had the effect of greatly decreasing the number of parlor houses, while houses of assignation have multiplied in the same ratio.at parlor house (n.) under parlor, n.
Nether Side of NY 25: [I]f he exhibits signs of being worth the plucking, he soon realizes how dreadful a thing it is to get drunk.at plucking (n.) under pluck, v.
Nether Side of NY 26: [I]n some cases tribute is exacted by the process familiarly known as ‘pulling.’ Armed with a warrant [...] a police captain or sergeant makes a sudden raid upon the selected den at an hour when it is certain to have the most inmates, and carries off captive everybody he finds in it.at pull, v.
Nether Side of NY 64: My Dear Sir: We wish to secure the services of a live gentleman to push the business named in the enclosed circular.at push, v.
Nether Side of NY 125: [T]hey [child bootblacks] are reached by the burglars, who so often need a ‘kid’ in their nefarious enterprises, and thus lead these hapless boys to deadly familiarity with crime.at reach, v.
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