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Secrets of the Great City 358: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language, from which we take the following specimens [...] Badger. – A panel-thief.at badger, n.1
Secrets of the Great City 358: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language, from which we take the following specimens [...] Badger. – A panel-thief. Secrets of the Great City 358: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language, from which we take the following specimens [...] Bag of nails. – All in confusion.at bag of nails (n.) under bag, n.1
Secrets of the Great City 358: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language, from which we take the following specimens [...] Bagged. – Imprisoned.at bagged, adj.1
Secrets of the Great City 358: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language [...] Balsam. – Money.at balsam, n.
Secrets of the Great City 358: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language, from which we take the following specimens [...] Bandog. – A civil officer.at bandog, n.
Secrets of the Great City 358: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language, from which we take the following specimens [...] Barking irons. – Pistols.at barking iron, n.
Secrets of the Great City 369: The members of the fraternity are well known to each other, and they arrange their scenes of operations, or ‘beats,’ with great care. No one will intrude upon the ‘beat’ of another, for ‘there is honor even among thieves’.at beat, n.1
Secrets of the Great City 359: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language, from which we take the following specimens [...] Bene. – Good, first-rate.at bene, adj.
Secrets of the Great City 359: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language, from which we take the following specimens [...] Benjamin.—A coat.at benjamin, n.1
Secrets of the Great City 359: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language, from which we take the following specimens [...] Bill of sale. – A widow’s weeds.at bill of sale, n.
Secrets of the Great City 359: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language, from which we take the following specimens [...] Bingo. – Liquor.at bingo, n.1
Secrets of the Great City 359: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language, from which we take the following specimens [...] Bingo boy. – A drunken man.at bingo-boy (n.) under bingo, n.1
Secrets of the Great City 359: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language, from which we take the following specimens [...] Bingo mort. – A drunken woman.at bingo-mort (n.) under bingo, n.1
Secrets of the Great City 359: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language, from which we take the following specimens [...] Blue-billy. – A strange handkerchief.at blue billy (n.) under blue, adj.1
Secrets of the Great City 359: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language, from which we take the following specimens [...] Blue ruin. – Bad gin.at blue ruin (n.) under blue, adj.1
Secrets of the Great City 359: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language, from which we take the following specimens [...] Boarding-school. – The penitentiary.at boarding school, n.
Secrets of the Great City 359: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language, from which we take the following specimens [...] Bone box. – The mouth.at bone box, n.
Secrets of the Great City 359: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language, from which we take the following specimens [...] Bowsprit in parenthesis. – A pulled nose.at bowsprit in parenthesis, n.
Secrets of the Great City 359: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language, from which we take the following specimens [...] Brother of the blade. – A soldier.at brother (of the) blade (n.) under brother (of the)..., n.
Secrets of the Great City 359: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language, from which we take the following specimens [...] Brother of the bolus. – A doctor.at brother of the bolus (n.) under brother (of the)..., n.
Secrets of the Great City 372: The poorer classes [...] get the poison from low shops, called bucket houses. These shops sell the vilest and most poisonous liquors, and derive their name from the fact that their customers usually bring buckets, bowls, or pitchers for the stuff, instead of bottles or jugs. They are confined to the worst quarters of the city, and are foul and wretched beyond description.at bucket shop, n.
Secrets of the Great City 359: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language, from which we take the following specimens [...] Bug. – A breast-pin.at bug, n.4
Secrets of the Great City 359: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language, from which we take the following specimens [...] Bugger. – A pickpocket.at bugger, n.2
Secrets of the Great City 359: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language, from which we take the following specimens [...] Bull-traps. – Rogues who personate officials to extort money.at bull trap (n.) under bull, n.5
Secrets of the Great City 359: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language, from which we take the following specimens [...] Bull. – A locomotive.at bull, n.1
Secrets of the Great City 100: Many visitors to the city, by yielding to the temptation to drink too much liquor, pay for their folly by an acquaintance with the Bummer’s Cell. They lose their self control in the splendid gin palaces of the city, and when they recover their consciousness find themselves in a hot, close room, filled with the vilest and most depraved wretches.at bummer, n.3
Secrets of the Great City 312: This saloon is one of the most notorious assignation houses in New York. [...] So, let us leave the murky atmosphere of the ‘crib,’ and once more breathe the pure air of heaven.at crib, n.1
Secrets of the Great City 297: She was a ‘soiled dove,’ indeed, but the gentlest and dearest.at soiled dove, n.
Secrets of the Great City 363: He, therefore, at once takes his plunder to his ‘fence,’ and receives from him, in money, such a price as is usually agreed upon.at fence, n.1
Secrets of the Great City 359: The Detectives’ Manual gives a glossary of this language, from which we take the following specimens [...] Brush. – To flatter, to humbug.at brush up a flat (v.) under flat, n.2
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