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Vocab. Criminal Sl. 27: cross lots [...] Cross-country; away from frequented routes of traffic.at across lots, phr.
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 27: cross lots [...] Cross-country; away from frequented routes of traffic. Vocab. Criminal Sl. 15: angel, [...] A financial backer.at angel, n.
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 15: arm man, [...] Current amongst ‘heavyweights.’ A strong arm man; a holdup; a highway robber.at strong-arm man (n.) under strong-arm, adj.
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 16: badger [...] Current amongst ‘hustlers’ and the demi-monde. A badger; a blackmailer, an extortioner. [Ibid.] 64: Amongst gamblers and badgers a ‘peter’ is a sleeping potion.at badger, n.1
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 16: bally hoo [...] Current amongst exhibition and ‘flat-joint’ grafters. A free entertainment used for a decoy to attract customers.at ballyhoo, n.
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 84: He tried to put the B. on me for the third touch this week.at put the bee on (v.) under bee, n.1
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 16: belch [...] ‘He cannot stand the gaff without belching.’.at belch, v.
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 16: belch, [...] In general usage with all grafters. A protest; a complaint. Example: ‘When he blowed his dough he put up an awful belch.’.at belch, n.
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 16: ben [...] An overcoat derived from Benjamin, in reference to the biblical coat of many colors.at ben, n.4
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 17: bent [...] crooked; larcenous. Example: His kisser shows that he’s bent.at bent, adj.
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 17: bit [...] A portion; a division; a share or a part of anything, as profits or proceeds of a transaction. Example: ‘You’re supposed to be in on anything that comes off, so you’re entitled to your bit.’.at bit, n.1
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 17: block [...] A watch. Example: ‘The wire rung six blocks in the breaks,’ i. e., ‘The tool (pickpocket) detached six watches from their rings in the crowded exit.’.at block, n.5
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 18: blow [...] to miss something absent. Examples: [...] ‘Just as the touch was scored the boob blowed his poke.’.at blow, v.2
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 18: blow card [...] Current amongst gamblers and genteel grafters. Any use less thing or condition; financial embarrassment; the last card; the final play or thing in any series. Examples: ‘Don’t connect with this wop, he is on the blow card,’ i. e., broke. ‘Pull this one off and call it the blow card’.at blow card, n.
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 18: booster [...] Used by confidential grafters. One who endorses a person, thing or action of immoral nature either by complimentary action or by moral support; a helper; a confederate.at booster, n.1
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 18: booster [...] A shoplifter; a thief who operates in merchandise stores in daytime. [...] ‘The Boost’ is the shoplifting profession.at booster, n.2
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 19: breaks [...] Any place of exit where throngs of people pour through en stream, as from a theatre, from a convention or other popular gathering, or from a street or railroad car or from a boat, all of which afford facilities for the pickpocket to operate [...] Example: ‘The guns are rooting into the swell mob at the Grand Opera breaks.’.at breaks, n.
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 19: breech (britch) [...] The rear pants pockets, designated right and left breech, in contra-distinction to the front pants [...] Example: ‘Fan his right breech for a leather,’ i. e., ‘Feel of his right, hip pocket for a pocketbook’.at breech, n.
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 19: breeze [...] Loquacity; guile; ‘hot air;’ ‘bull con’.at breeze, n.1
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 19: breeze [...] To deceive; to beguile: to occupy one’s attention; to descant loquaciously. Example: ‘She breezed everybody on the line.’.at breeze, v.2
Vocab. Criminal Sl.at beating the broads (n.) under broad, n.2
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 19: broad [...] Current amongst genteel grafters chiefly. A female confederate [...] Broad is derived from the far-fetched metaphor for ‘meal ticket,’ signifying a female provider for a pimp, from the fanciful correspondence of a meal ticket to a railroad or other ticket, which latter originally was exclusively used by ‘gonifs’ to indicate ‘broad’ or a conductor’s hat check.at broad, n.2
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 19: broad [...] a woman of loose morals.at broad, n.2
Vocab. Criminal Sl.at tipping the broads (n.) under broad, n.2
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 19: broad [...] a playing card.at broads, n.
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 19: A ‘three-card monte man’ is a ‘broad spieler’.at broad spieler (n.) under broads, n.
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 20: buffalo General usage in the northern states. A negro.at buffalo, n.1
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 20: bug Used by alms beggars. A fearful looking sore artificially produced to simulate a burn or scald by the use of Spanish-blister.at bug, n.4
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 21: bump [...] Current among heavyweights and desperate characters chiefly, though understood by grafters generally. To kill.at bump, v.1
Vocab. Criminal Sl. 21: He copped a cuter and got bumped making a get-away.at bump, v.1
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