1938 J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 123: Such persons as ambulance chasers, cappers for lawyers, bail bond fixers, and other forms of fungus which feeds on the misfortunes of crime.at ambulance-chaser, n.
1938 J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 247: This car’s a bender. One of your gang probably stole it.at bender, n.3
1938 J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 246: You suspect me of being in a stolen car? Look it over, take the numbers. You’ll never find me in a bent job.at bent, adj.
1938 J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 87: ‘This is the blow-off,’ he mumbled. ‘They’ve got Boss McLaughlon. We’ve all got to leave town.’.at blow off, n.2
1938 J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 178: By this time the back or ‘cat’ roads used by bank robbers were choked with snow.at cat road (n.) under cat, n.1
1938 J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 14: The word passed from crook to crook that there was a ‘cooling-off joint’ in Tulsa where a criminal not only could get protection, but shrewd advice.at cool off, v.2
1938 J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 50: Karpis [...] remained remorseless, coldly kill-crazy.at -crazy, sfx
1938 J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 235: There were number changers, [...] contact men, ‘drop’ or hideout owners.at drop, n.1
1938 J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 154: I know a job that would bring you in ten thousand dollars, and all you’d have to do would be to finger a certain man for us.at finger, v.
1938 J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 174: Robbers had deemed it necessay to hire a ‘finger man’.at finger man, n.
1938 J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 106: He acted as the ‘front man’ in the purchase of a car for Baby Face.at front man (n.) under front, adj.
1938 J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 123: Such persons as ambulance chasers, cappers for lawyers, bail bond fixers, and other forms of the fungus which feeds on the misfortunes of crime.at fungus, n.
1938 J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 114: Stay away from us. You’re hot. It’s G heat! We don’t want to lay eyes on you!at G-heat (n.) under G, adj.1
1938 J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 149: Kathryn had an underworld reputation as a ‘locator,’ or ‘caser,’ the person who goes ahead to plan the robbery of a store or bank.at locate, v.
1938 J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 28: She continued to write sobby letters sending them [...] to persons she believed influential.at sob, n.1
1938 J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 190: It is the plaint of many sob-sisters.at sob sister (n.) under sob, n.1
1938 J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 173: At first he worked [...] with old-timers, learning all his comrades knew about the ‘souping’ or dynamiting of safes.at soup, n.
1938 J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 284: Eddie Doll [...] a reputed ‘spot killer’ for some of Chicago’s most desperate gangsters.at spot killer (n.) under spot, n.3
1938 J.E. Hoover Persons in Hiding 173: I decided to become a yegg [...] a bank robber, you know. They’re the aristocracy of the criminal profession.at yegg, n.