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Confessions of a Detective 17–18: The Sleeping Car is in right, both ways from the jack.at both ways from the ace, adv.
Confessions of a Detective 17–18: The Sleeping Car is in right, both ways from the jack. Confessions of a Detective 30: Your one chance to put them away, so they’ll stay, is to put them to bed with a shovel.at put away, v.
Confessions of a Detective 203: ‘You had a bang-up graft.’ ‘Bang up!’.at bang-up, adj.
Confessions of a Detective 27: I won’t say there’s anything in the theory, because it’s altogether off my mental beat.at off one’s beat under beat, n.1
Confessions of a Detective 30: Your one chance to put them away, so they’ll stay, is to put them to bed with a shovel.at put to bed with a shovel (v.) under bed, n.
Confessions of a Detective 145: You heard your party say ‘Twenty-third Street ferry?’ [...] That was a blind.at blind, n.1
Confessions of a Detective 202: The bogus yeggman, just from the roads, was the leader in the conversation.at bogus, adj.
Confessions of a Detective 4: Having at that time both a high temper and a low cash balance—for the clothes broke me—I said I’d fight.at break, v.1
Confessions of a Detective 197: [He] gracefully puffed at a cigar-butt.at butt, n.1
Confessions of a Detective 26: Hold off! He’s pulled his cannister; an’ if you crowd him he’s framed it up to do Red.at canister, n.1
Confessions of a Detective 36: Didn’t I cap for you, an’ square you with the examinin’ board?at cap, v.5
Confessions of a Detective 199: He has a date wit’ you, but you’re too slow for his clock. So he chases; an’ leaves me planted to give you your orders.at chase, v.
Confessions of a Detective 42: I’d clamber up a fire-escape, or steal along a hall, or creep across a roof, until I’d located the still and collared my chemist.at chemist, n.
Confessions of a Detective 184: See how chirpy he is! I’m blessed if he won’t take to whistling in a minute.at chirpy, adj.
Confessions of a Detective 203: I cleaned up three hundred quid on the trip—may I grin through a glass case if I don’t!at clean up, v.
Confessions of a Detective 80: It had cost you fifteen thousand in cold reluctant coin of the realm.at cold, adj.
Confessions of a Detective 77: [He] either showed up with the regulation sum, or brought in an explanation as to why this one or that one wouldn’t come down.at come down, v.1
Confessions of a Detective 25: ‘Settle the bull, Red! Go in and cook him!’ I might add that ‘settle’ and ‘cook,’ in the language of the Five Points, always mean ‘kill’ and never mean anything else.at cook, v.1
Confessions of a Detective 50: Not a dollar! And every month, mind you, you ought to be coppin’ off at least two hundred plunks.at cop off, v.2
Confessions of a Detective 206: You in nothing for the job but four or five bottles of vinegar [...] because [they] [...] won’t stay to turn out the crib.at crib, n.1
Confessions of a Detective 53: As it fell out I caught the second blow — a crusher, too! — on my arm.at crusher, n.1
Confessions of a Detective 203: That old snaffler of a Jew wanted to cut it in two with me.at cut, v.6
Confessions of a Detective 59: I was just takin’ a punch at a Dago, who’d been slangin’ me, when along comes them Central Office bulls, an’ collars me.at dago, n.
Confessions of a Detective 209: In fewer than forty-eight hours you clap the darbies on the murderer.at darby, n.2
Confessions of a Detective 29: Tammany is practical, and makes no fights for dead ones.at dead one, n.
Confessions of a Detective 74: The copper runs in the rich thief, and then he and the lawyer shake him down between them for the bundle. When they’ve taken all his roll, they turn him loose to get some more.at shake down, v.
Confessions of a Detective 202: I fenced the fawney for fifty.at fence, v.
Confessions of a Detective 202: He used the flash patter of his clan.at flash, adj.
Confessions of a Detective 202: Then I flimped his thimble—a yellow one.at flimp, v.
Confessions of a Detective 12: ‘What are you driving at?’ I asked; for at twenty-one I was over-innocent, with plenty to learn, and Mugsey’s observations were foggy.at foggy, adj.
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