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Thief’s Primer 55: aggey: hoe or other hand-held farm implement.at aggie, n.1
Thief’s Primer 55: aggey: hoe or other hand-held farm implement. Thief’s Primer 107: Using narcotics as pills, especially if like me you’ve never shot any dope, you get a pretty good bang out of it. You get a pretty good jolt.at get a bang (out of) (v.) under bang, n.1
Thief’s Primer 55: beef: [...] arrest.at beef, n.2
Thief’s Primer 67: We went off on this beef, on this job, made three or four places and got to running.at beef, n.2
Thief’s Primer 84: I don’t go into beer joints very much.at beer joint (n.) under beer, n.
Thief’s Primer 59: put the bitch on: file charges against a criminal as a habitual criminal.at put the bitch on (v.) under bitch, n.1
Thief’s Primer 130: If I’m going to trial [...] I like to have me a little bitty young lawyer, a fire burner.at bitty, adj.
Thief’s Primer 125: They can’t get the money, these people here [i.e. in prison] [...] So the tax people just blow it off.at blow off, v.1
Thief’s Primer 55: boosting: shoplifting. Sam says, ‘To me, boosting is what you can pick up with somebody watching you, or as soon as they blink their eyes, you cover something and go on out. But whenever you start carrying out a stereo or something like that, I would consider that just stealing.’.at boosting, n.
Thief’s Primer 86: That boosting is a funny business anyhow.at boosting, n.
Thief’s Primer 173: She’s [i.e. a male homosexual] got a bunch of them in the tank with her that are going both ways.at go both ways (v.) under both ways, adj.
Thief’s Primer 55: buck: inmate sit-down strike.at buck, n.6
Thief’s Primer 71: I went out to my stash in the country [...] and dug me up a big bunch of Dilaudid.at bunch, n.1
Thief’s Primer 128: Of course I had one of the best attorneys in the country there. He said, ‘Boy, he’s an oil burner.’ ‘Yeah [...] He’s a good lawyer.’.at oil-burner, n.
Thief’s Primer 130: If I’m going to trial [...] I like to have me a little bitty young lawyer, a fire burner. You know, one that will go up there and really argue the case.at fire-burner, n.
Thief’s Primer 165: They started out dealing craps in my uncle’s joint and I’ve used both of them as bust-out men in my joint.at bust-out man, n.
Thief’s Primer 70: We was stealing every night, man; we was busting safes every night.at bust, v.1
Thief’s Primer 68: The chief lost his job on account of it. He testified at my trial and they busted him to a patrolman.at bust, v.1
Thief’s Primer 128: Maybe they’re playing poker and one of them gets busted [...] I might give him a hundred or so.at busted (out), adj.
Thief’s Primer 60: tin can: cheap safe made of thin metal.at tin-can, n.2
Thief’s Primer 36: Someone who was arrested for stealing a car to joy-ride around town [...] You know he really can’t caper.at caper, v.2
Thief’s Primer 148: I know he’s a booster or a carny or something like that.at carney, n.2
Thief’s Primer 97: This man was supposed to have cased it [i.e. a department store] out.at case, v.1
Thief’s Primer 127: So that night I’m in a character joint, kind of a hip place. [Ibid.] 144: A character is a person who makes his money outside the law. It doesn’t matter how.at character, n.
Thief’s Primer 76: Whenever I start stealing, boy, I dig a hell of a charge out of it. I dig a fantastic charge!at charge, n.2
Thief’s Primer 110: Tuinal is what I like. Some people call them Christmas Trees [...] because they’re a kind of a green and a kind of a red – not true red and true green but the green and red they use at Christmastime.at Christmas tree, n.1
Thief’s Primer 56: come down: come to prison.at come down, v.2
Thief’s Primer 39: There are three basic participating sexual roles in prisons for men: stud (or daddy, jocker, wolf; the person who plays the ‘active’ or inserting role).at daddy, n.
Thief’s Primer 186: At a hotel, if it’s a straight date it’s usually $10, and French date, a blow job, is $20.at date, n.1
Thief’s Primer 56: ding: A manuscript by another thief described a ding as ‘anyone outside the group of good fellows who is too square or too stupid to be accepted. The good fellows haven’t any real reason for not liking him; he isn’t a fink or a punk. He’s just a ding.’.at ding, n.2
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