1960 C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 53: So we’re easy to spot [...] Stick out a mile, you’d say.at stick out like a sore thumb, v.
1960 C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice 7: A bad discharge-book, too: adrift in Yokohama and repatriated at official expense.at adrift, adj.
1960 C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 53: I’ve never yet seen a cop, even got up as a down-and-out or something, who can bear to be seen around if he’s down-at-heel.at down-and-out, n.
1960 C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 147: But on the up-and-up – legitimate.at on the up and up (adj.) under up-and-up, n.
1960 C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 112: I hope your private investigations haven’t b---d up the situation prematurely.at ballocks (up), v.
1960 C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 30: For the vice barons: the gaff landlords and [...] the easy-money boys.at baron, n.
1960 C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 42: Frankie wasn’t greedy about money and only felt the urgent need of it for explosive blow-outs when ashore in port.at blow-out, n.1
1960 C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 100: He came into a boozer [...] where I was partaking of a dram.at boozer, n.
1960 C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 63: Naturally, boy! But do use your loaf!at use one’s loaf (v.) under loaf (of bread), n.
1960 C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 164: The news of the arrest of Frankie’s girl had already spread by the ponce-prostitute bush telegraph.at bush telegraph, n.
1960 C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice 20: If you’re in business full-time, and your landlord’s not ignorant, you don’t get a gaff for less.at business, n.
1960 C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice 23: Not only the civvies all mistrust you [...] the uniformed men do, too.at civvie, n.
1960 C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 9: Would he make plain-clothes – would he? Think of it! In civvies yet unlike the other millions.at civvies, n.
1960 C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 72: ‘So what did you tell them?’ [...] ‘Well, I am a ponce – so what? I said poncing.’ ‘And?’ ‘They crunched me.’.at crunch, v.
1960 C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 134: One of our vice boys I’m on a job with [...] who’s got a down on me.at down, n.2
1960 C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 191: I’ve thought of trying: stow away and get duff papers.at duff, adj.
1960 C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 24: If you can get the woman to testify against him – then you’ve got him! And as women have all sorts of reasons for losing interest in their fancy-men.at fancy man, n.1
1960 C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 79: But if you fix a case, Edward, then don’t you commit a crime yourself?at fix, v.1
1960 C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 79: A case is never fixed unless we’re absolutely sure the feller did it.at fixed, adj.1
1960 C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice 20: I pay a Bengali eight [pounds] a week for this little gaff [Ibid.] 30: The gaff landlords and the escort-businesses that handle call-girls.at gaff, n.1
1960 C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 191: He’s bound to speak against me, honey. After all why shouldn’t he? It’s his graft.at graft, n.1
1960 C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 165: The heat’s on at the station to find this boy.at heat, n.
1960 C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 167: Frankie disapproved of Indian hemp (well, just didn’t like it).at hemp, n.