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25 Years in Six Prisons 59: Meanwhile the ‘con’ man and his son would ‘do an Ally Slope’ through another door.at do an ally slope (v.) under ally slope, n.
25 Years in Six Prisons 59: Meanwhile the ‘con’ man and his son would ‘do an Ally Slope’ through another door. 25 Years in Six Prisons 130: He was the collector for an insurance company [...] Sometimes these men are called ‘body-snatchers.’ [Ibid.] 235: One of those ‘body-snatchers,’ as they are called in Hoxton, who call at the houses of artisans for their weekly twopences for an insurance company.at body-snatcher, n.
25 Years in Six Prisons 257: He declared that he was a Russian and an ally of ours, Russia not having gone ‘Bolshy’ at that time.at bolshie, adj.
25 Years in Six Prisons 58: I forget whether we had a case of the ‘bubbly’ sent in.at bubbly, n.
25 Years in Six Prisons 25: I went to a ‘boozer’ (public-house) and got tiddley, and did another ‘bust’ (burglary).at do a bust (v.) under bust, n.
25 Years in Six Prisons 20: Bill turned round and ‘sloshed the loafer in the jaw,’ for which he was ‘reported’ and ‘cased’ (which means punished) with three days’ bread and water!at cased, adj.1
25 Years in Six Prisons 182: He was doing chokee for his attempt.at chokey, n.
(ref. to 1900s) 25 Years in Six Prisons 53: Ain’t ’ee a fair little treat? Bin and done a click on ’is very own!at click, n.3
25 Years in Six Prisons 233: He wanted to be cock of the walk in the hospital ward in prison.at cock of the walk (n.) under cock, n.3
25 Years in Six Prisons 136: The ‘salaams’ had been getting lower and lower from the salesman at the thought of the rich ‘commish’.at commish, n.
25 Years in Six Prisons 56: My ‘con’ friends have said to me [...] ‘We soon get to know each other out there, and are ready for any game.’.at con, adj.
25 Years in Six Prisons 53: Dartmoor Convict prison, then filled with long-haired ‘conchies’.at conchie, n.
25 Years in Six Prisons 44: It was a ‘fair cop,’ as the boys call it.at fair cop, n.
25 Years in Six Prisons 69: They are usually quite ready to assist [...] and ‘take their corner’ – that is, get their share – later on.at corner, n.1
25 Years in Six Prisons 79: The ‘copper’ settled him by a blow on the shoulder with his ‘kosh’.at cosh, n.
25 Years in Six Prisons 130: He was the collector for an insurance company whose premiums are collected weekly. Sometimes these men are called ‘body-snatchers.’ The woman was his courtesy-wife. She went to the registrar of deaths at Fulham and handed him a medical certificate which pretended to certify that her husband was dead [...] Armed with that certificate, she went boldly to the office of the assurance company and obtained £12 16s. on a fully paid-up policy on the life of the ‘deceased’ husband.at courtesy-man, n.
25 Years in Six Prisons 16: I talked to him of his [...] ‘daisies’ (‘daisy roots’ rhymes with ‘boots’).at daisy roots, n.
25 Years in Six Prisons 16: I talked to him of his ‘flowery’ (‘flowery dell’ rhymes with ‘cell’, hence ‘flowery’).at flowery (dell), n.
25 Years in Six Prisons 59: The first ‘farmer’ had brought out his well-filled wallet, the ‘con’ man’s eyes were fixed on the ‘dibs’.at dibbs, n.
25 Years in Six Prisons 54: If you don’t want to get ‘dipped’ [...] buy a penn’orth of them small nuts and put them in your pocket with your cash.at dip, v.2
25 Years in Six Prisons 21: As I had some ‘tools’ on me, I did not want to walk about the main roads, for fear some of the coppers should want to rub me down.at rub down, v.
(ref. to 1910s) 25 Years in Six Prisons 266: The Zeppelin followed the lines of the trams through Croydon, Norbury, Streatham, Brixton, and on to ‘The Elephant’.at elephant, n.
25 Years in Six Prisons 22: So here I am for another ‘fiver’ at the Old Bailey.at fiver, n.
25 Years in Six Prisons 28: He was ‘fullied’.at fullied, adj.
25 Years in Six Prisons 85: But, Knight, you could not drive a pair-horse van togged up like that! Why, everybody would have guyed you.at guy, v.1
25 Years in Six Prisons 133: They were very smartly dressed, in fact much too smartly, as I told them [...] ‘You ought to get twelve months for going down a place like Lewisham in such “ikey” clothes.’.at ikey, adj.
25 Years in Six Prisons 81: He had fallen in love with one of the ‘fair but frail joy-girls’ of the West End.at joy girl (n.) under joy, n.
(ref. to 1900s) 25 Years in Six Prisons 243: I used to conduct services in the ‘kippin’-’aases,’ or common lodging houses.at kiphouse (n.) under kip, n.1
25 Years in Six Prisons 249: You had no ‘kippin’-money,’ and would have to doss in the streets.at kipping, n.1
25 Years in Six Prisons 55: ‘Kite fishing,’ which is getting letters out of letter-boxes with a piece of bent wire or string covered with bird lime, used to be a favourite game.at kite-fishing (n.) under kite, n.
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