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Banker Tells All 137: ‘We had a bar, my lord,’ he added, again addressing the judge, ‘which we did not use on this occasion, and which we call the alderman.’.at alderman, n.
Banker Tells All 137: ‘We had a bar, my lord,’ he added, again addressing the judge, ‘which we did not use on this occasion, and which we call the alderman.’. Banker Tells All 140: ‘Can you beat that!’ said the safe-cracker.at can you beat it? under beat, v.
Banker Tells All 22: A big pot from the Office of Works took us off that work and put us on this here digging job.at big pot, n.
Banker Tells All 130: Many people who ‘bluff’ for a living, such as cheap-jack auctioneers, racing twisters and flash fellows, find my grafted stones are cheap.at bluff, v.
Banker Tells All 44: She was Bonzo at putting down. Never a let-up during the whole time she worked for me.at bonzo, adj.2
Banker Tells All 61: The first batch of ‘Bradburys’ were very poor notes.at Bradbury, n.
(con. 1910) Banker Tells All 169: They said he made the best ‘bulls’ (five-shilling pieces) which were ever seen outside the English Mint.at bull, n.3
(con. 1910) Banker Tells All 169: One of the ‘bulls’ was a very unlucky coin for Plotsky. A barmaid who had taken it over the counter in payment for a drink discovered that it was a dud.at bull, n.3
(con. 1905) Banker Tells All 189: He was also a forger, a burglar and a pillar-box ‘buster’.at buster, n.1
Banker Tells All 136: The Lord Chief Justice [...] asked Caseley how the expert cracksman tested a safe. ‘Why you see,’ replied Caseley, with the superior air of the specialist, ‘we first try a large tin-opener. This is a steel bar with a cutting knife on one end of it.’.at tin-can, n.2
Banker Tells All 137: ‘We have a citizen – that’s a small one – and a citizen’s friend, which is smaller still.’ Casey’s safe-breaking technique was the last word in the London underworld.at citizen, n.
Banker Tells All 76: ‘It’s a fair cop,’ he moaned.at fair cop, n.
Banker Tells All 44: She would wait for the rush hour when the cashiers were busy, and plant a cheque here and a cheque there [...] She was Bonzo at putting down.at put down, v.1
Banker Tells All 165: Like all makers of ‘queer’ coins he dare not pass them himself but was forced to hand them over to ‘layers-down’.at layer down, n.
Banker Tells All 127: ‘Duffer’ is the gypsy word for a hawker of cheap jewellery but in up-to-date underworld slang the word is used for a jewel faker and forger.at duffer, n.1
Banker Tells All 32: Some, a few of them bank clerks and officials, ‘fade out’ with money which does not belong to them.at fade out, v.
Banker Tells All 40: Place one ‘fiver’ a month; no more and no less.at fiver, n.
Banker Tells All 130: Many people who ‘bluff’ for a living, such as cheap-jack auctioneers, racing twisters and flash fellows, find my grafted stones are cheap.at flash, adj.
Banker Tells All 51: All contained orders for flash or forged notes.at flash note (n.) under flash, adj.
Banker Tells All 43: Of course, she was only kidding – just gagging her way into the affair.at gag, v.
Banker Tells All 131: As you are interested I’ll tell you a thing or two about the game. False pearls are made by blowing very thin beads or bulbs of glass.at game, n.
Banker Tells All 141: Gaw! Can’t I?at gaw, n.
Banker Tells All 75: He was cash-happy.at -happy, sfx
(con. 1909) Banker Tells All 117: I had to go the whole hog, and I am afraid I have come to the tail now.at go the whole hog (v.) under whole hog, n.
(con. 1900s) Banker Tells All 49: A ‘lil’ is a copy of a Bank of England note with the words Bank of Engraving substituted for Bank of England in order to evade the definite charge of forgery against the printer. [Ibid.] 126: As a rule the crook does not attempt to pass lils as ‘real money’. They are used in all kinds of sharp practices to impress those whom the crooks seek to fleece. [...] What has become of those shadowy individuals who were known to the police as lil-fakers, moskers and duffers?at lil, n.
Banker Tells All 137: ‘Is there a lord mayor as well as an alderman?’ asked the learned counsel.at lord mayor, n.1
(con. 1900s) Banker Tells All 126: What has become of those shadowy individuals who were known to the police as lil-fakers, moskers and duffers? [...] A mosker is a gentleman who endeavours to pledge articles of jewellery with pawnbrokers for considerably more than their actual worth.at mosker, n.
Banker Tells All 135: The gang opened several large safes and captured the largest ‘parcel’ of gold watches ever recorded in a burglary.at parcel, n.
Banker Tells All 11: When a forger ‘pushes’ his cheque at a cashier, he takes care to be dressed in quiet and unobtrusive clothes.at push, v.
Banker Tells All 165: Like all makers of ‘queer’ coins he dare not pass them himself.at queer, adj.
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