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Autobiog. of a Thief 190: I thought it was ‘all up’ with us.at all up with under all up, adj.
Autobiog. of a Thief 190: I thought it was ‘all up’ with us. Autobiog. of a Thief 39: She was verging on early middle age, so far as mere anno Domini went, but she had very young ideas.at anno domini, n.
Autobiog. of a Thief 141: Between you and I [...] I’m supposed to be rather a bad hat.at bad hat, n.
Autobiog. of a Thief 248: A principal warder, whom we called ‘Old Bill’ – for obvious reasons.at Old Bill, n.
Autobiog. of a Thief 56: He was fat with a sebaceous fatness; in the vernacular, ‘a nasty piece of work.’ He reeked of money – and scent.at nasty bit of work, n.
Autobiog. of a Thief 104: Whatever do yous expect me to do with a blanky thing like that?at blanky, adj.
Autobiog. of a Thief 86: I ain’t working just now – no bon, just yet.at no bon, adj.
Autobiog. of a Thief 23: I bowled the chauffeur out in the act of selling a nearly new set of outer covers (tyres).at bowl out (v.) under bowl, v.
Autobiog. of a Thief 145: Have some more bubbly-wine.at bubbly, n.
Autobiog. of a Thief 22: It was already acknowledged that I was a ‘case’!at case, n.1
Autobiog. of a Thief 27: Many of these men [...] were what might be called hard cases, and habitually consumed enough liquor in the course of an evening to render the average landlubber insensible.at hard case, n.
Autobiog. of a Thief 71: Come where we can chin-wag.at chinwag, v.
Autobiog. of a Thief 231: Got any cons? [...] bin lagged afore?at con, n.1
Autobiog. of a Thief 161: Near Croydon she [i.e. a car] ‘conked out.’.at conk (out), v.
Autobiog. of a Thief 247: He called up the coloured man [...] While the search was proceeding the ‘coon’ pinched ‘Evan’s’ pocket-handkerchief.at coon, n.
Autobiog. of a Thief 92: I heard the cry : ‘New cop! New cop!’ taken up and repeated in shrill Cockney voices.at cop, n.1
Autobiog. of a Thief 232: Maybe we’ll meet at one o’ them country hotels.at country hotel (n.) under country, adj.
Autobiog. of a Thief 182: In Rugby we cracked one or two ‘cribs’.at crack a crib (v.) under crib, n.1
Autobiog. of a Thief 35: My retentive mind was [...] fitting itself to carry out its half-formed purpose of ‘going on the crook.’.at on the crook under crook, n.3
Autobiog. of a Thief 49: A young flying officer, whose exploits and general ‘dinkiness’ were even more ‘won-derful’ than my own.at dinkiness (n.) under dinky, adj.1
Autobiog. of a Thief 160: He had, in the words of the bard, ‘done his gear-box in.’.at do in, v.
Autobiog. of a Thief 71: The dope’s got me, boy! [...] I can’t live without cocaine.at dope, n.1
Autobiog. of a Thief 154: I’m a crook, but, thank God, a clean crook. I’ve no use for dopers.at doper, n.1
Autobiog. of a Thief 198: I was wanted [...] for the ‘kites’ (worthless cheques) which I had ‘dropped’ in various places.at drop, v.2
Autobiog. of a Thief 105: Crooks go ‘drumming’ in pairs, dressed as clerks or messengers. Towards lunch-time they proceed to a large office building, select the name of a firm which they know to be located on the top floor, and visit a number of offices [...] at which thy enquire for the selected firm. Should they find an office left unoccupied [...] they quickly and skilfully ‘turn it over.’.at drumming, n.2
Autobiog. of a Thief 107: The ‘dummy’ [is] a sack filled with straw and clothed in a coat. The ‘dummy’ is garnished with sensitive little bells which tinkle on the slightest jar.at dummy, n.5
Autobiog. of a Thief 201: The chief officer [...] was a ‘man-eater,’ they said, and hated stowaways.at man-eater, n.
Autobiog. of a Thief 118: I deemed it best to ‘fade away’ also, which I did by diving through the open door of a house [...] and out at the back.at fade, v.2
Autobiog. of a Thief 53: At the ‘Cosmopoliotan Club’ I ‘picked up a fairy,’ who seemed anxious to teach me to fox-trot.at fairy, n.1
Autobiog. of a Thief 98: The profiteers and arrivées began to come out of their funk-holes.at funkhole (n.) under funk, n.2
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