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Rough Stuff 90: I had a look at the ‘Town Clown’ (policeman) and figured that he wasn’t too intelligent, and that I could get away with this as easy as falling off a log.at easy as falling off a log, adj.
Rough Stuff 90: I had a look at the ‘Town Clown’ (policeman) and figured that he wasn’t too intelligent, and that I could get away with this as easy as falling off a log. Rough Stuff 148: We figured we’d drive our car right into the garage and transfer the ‘alkie’ from his car into ours.at alky, n.
Rough Stuff 99: I was ready to make the heel-and-toe.at heel-and-toe, n.
Rough Stuff 145: One night I was walking along a street waiting for a little ‘twist and twirl’ (girl).at twist (and twirl), n.
Rough Stuff 24: I thought sure as hell that we were going to be taken for a ride.at sure as hell under sure as..., phr.
Rough Stuff 152: We got-at the doctor in the hospital and gave him some money in case he said Nick died from the beating.at get at, v.
Rough Stuff 129: They knew we were working and wanted to break up the ring, but they couldn’t just get us dead bang.at dead-bang, adv.
Rough Stuff 111: Red squared the ‘beef’ for a couple of hundred dollars.at square the beef (v.) under beef, n.2
Rough Stuff 121: Little Joe showed me how to make up my first bindle or deck, a number of small packets of the drug.at bindle, n.
Rough Stuff 39: He told us of different houses throughout the country that dealt in brass peddling, such as blocks, which is what watches are called in the West. In the East they call ’em soupers, and in England, kettles.at block, n.5
Rough Stuff 205: Two gorillas came and cornered me [...] and told me that if I wanted to work this racket I should have to see the big Boss.at boss, n.2
Rough Stuff 13: All the boys from brass peddlers (petty confidence men) to stick-up men used to go there. A brass peddler is a fellow that buys fake jewelry, and stamps it 14 carat.at brass peddler (n.) under brass, n.1
Rough Stuff 200: My mouthpiece talked like three men at once, and got me bail at five grand, and I was out on the bricks again.at on the bricks under bricks, n.
Rough Stuff 23: We went around the South End again seeing if we’re still ‘hot’ (whether any bulls were on our trail).at bull, n.5
Rough Stuff 93: They tried their best to put some bum raps, that is crimes done by these wandering bums, on me.at bum rap, n.
Rough Stuff 203: He would have pulled some funny stuff himself, for he didn’t know what fear was.at funny business, n.
Rough Stuff 92: I didn’t try to pull any sob-stuff on this dick, if I had he would have torn my can (head) off.at can, n.1
Rough Stuff 17: I’d always wanted to try my skill as a cannon (pickpocket).at cannon, n.2
Rough Stuff 146: Those kind of ‘cattle’ don’t know what kindness is.at cattle, n.
Rough Stuff 190: No two pals will ever cell together [...] for the strain on your mind and body and the discipline seems to do something to you which makes you mean and hateful.at cell, v.
Rough Stuff 21: This garage was near Canal Street, the West Side of Chi., in among the tenement houses.at Chi, n.
Rough Stuff 98: We watched the freight trains go through, they were going at a fairly slow clip.at clip, n.3
Rough Stuff 39: From then on he used to indulge in coke (as cocaine is always called).at coke, n.1
Rough Stuff 146: It is known that a bunch of insane coke-heads and drug-users have inflicted brutal punishment.at cokehead (n.) under coke, n.1
Rough Stuff 41: You can only trim a sucker in any con-game when he thinks he’s beating you.at con game (n.) under con, n.1
Rough Stuff 5: Then I got initiated into a short-con racket, this was the delivery boy racket [...] We’d fill a box with old sacks, and through the telephone book get the name and address of a prospect through ringing up to find out if they were in. If they were out we would deliver the box to the Caretaker which would be marked from ten to twenty dollars on delivery C.O.D. [Ibid.] 34: He was now on the short-con racket, picking up a five-dollar bill where he could. [Ibid.] 37: I’m playing a sure thing now, the short money racket.at short con, n.
Rough Stuff 76: It is a happy hunting ground for thieves because of the immense crowds on the streets, and with them mix the prowlers, pickpockets and con-mobs.at con-mob (n.) under con, n.1
Rough Stuff 124: The addicts I was dealing with were [...] pickpockets, boosters that is shop-lifters, street girls and short con men.at short con artist (n.) under short con, n.
Rough Stuff 75: They [...] took us down to the cells, and threw us in for being d.c., that means dangerous characters.at d.c., n.
Rough Stuff 157: ‘Hullo, daddy’ she says.at daddy, n.
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