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Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 251: Speaking of a person who is drunk, they say, Alderman Lushington is concerned, or, he has been voting for the Alderman.at vote for the alderman, v.
Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 251: Speaking of a person who is drunk, they say, Alderman Lushington is concerned, or, he has been voting for the Alderman. Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 251: To banter or jest with a man by amusing him with false assurances or professions, is also termed stringing him, or getting him in tow.at string (along), v.
Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 239: To fake a man out and out is to kill him.at fake out and out, v.
Vocab. of the Flash Lang.at out-and-out, adv.
Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 256: out-and-outer a person of a resolute determined spirit, who pursues his object without regard to danger or difficulties; also an incorrigible depredator, who will rob friend or stranger indiscriminately, being possessed of neither honour nor principle.at out-and-outer, n.
Vocab. of the Flash Lang.at Andrew Millar, n.
Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 225: area sneak, or area slum: the practice of slipping unperceived down the areas of private houses, and robbing the lower apartments of plate or other articles.at area-sneak, n.
Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 225: arm-pits: To work under the arm-pits, is to practise only such kinds of depredation, as will amount, upon conviction, to what the law terms single, or petty larceny; the extent of punishment for which is transportation for seven years. By following this system, a thief avoids the halter, which certainly is applied above the arm-pits.at work under the armpits (v.) under armpit, n.
Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 257: pensioner a mean-spirited fellow who lives with a woman of the town, and suffers her to maintain him in idleness in the character of her fancy-man.at pensioner (at the petticoat), n.
Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964).at do away (v.) under away, adj.
Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 226: back-slum: a back room; also the back entrance to any house or premises; thus we’ll give it ’em on the back-slum, means, we’ll get in at the back-door.at back slum (n.) under back, adj.2
Vocab. of the Flash Lang.at back-jump, n.1
Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 225: back-slang: [...] to go a circuitous or private way through the streets, in order to avoid any particular place in the direct road, is termed back-slanging it.at backslang it, v.
Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 225: back-slang: to enter or come out of a house by the back-door [...] is termed back-slanging it.at backslang it, v.
Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 226: bad halfpenny: When a man has been upon any errand, or attempting any object which has proved unsuccessful or impracticable, he will say on his return, It’s a bad halfpenny; meaning he has returned as he went.at bad halfpenny (n.) under bad, adj.
Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 260: queer-bail Persons of no repute, hired to bail a prisoner in any bailable case; these men are to be had in London for a trifling sum, and are called Broomsticks.at broomstick bail, n.
Vocab. of the Flash Lang.at banded, adj.
Vocab. of the Flash Lang.at barking iron, n.
Vocab. of the Flash Lang.at barnacles, n.
Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 226: bash: to beat any person by way of correction, as the woman you live with, &c.at bash, v.
Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 226: bastile: generally called, for shortness, the Steel; a cant name for the House of Correction, Cold-Bath-Fields, London.at bastille, n.
Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 256: one upon your taw: a person who takes offence at the conduct of another, or conceives himself injured by the latter, will say, never mind, I’ll be one upon your taw, or, I’ll be a marble on your taw; meaning, I’ll be even with you some time.at I’ll be one upon your taw (presently), phr.
Vocab. of the Flash Lang.at half-a-bean (n.) under bean, n.1
Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 226: beef: stop thief! to beef a person, is to raise a hue and cry after him, in order to get him stopped.at beef, v.1
Vocab. of the Flash Lang.at bellowser, n.
Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 279: A man transported for his natural life is said to [...] have knap’d a winder, or a bellowser.at bellowser, n.
Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 226: bender: an ironical word used in conversation by flash people; as where one party affirms or professes any thing which the other believes to be false or insincere, the latter expresses his incredulity by exclaiming bender! or, if one asks another to do any act which the latter considers unreasonable or impracticable, he replies, O yes, I’ll do it – bender; meaning, by the addition of the last word, that, in fact, he will do no such thing.at bender!, excl.
Vocab. of the Flash Lang.at bender, n.1
Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 227: best: to get your money at the best, signifies to live by dishonest or fraudulent practices, without labour or industry, according to the general acceptation of the latter word; but, certainly, no persons have more occasion to be industrious, and in a state of perpetual action than cross-coves; and experience has proved, when too late, to many of them, that honesty is the best policy; and, consequently, that the above phrase is by no means a-propos.at get money at the best (v.) under best, v.
Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 227: betty: picklock; to unbetty, or betty a lock, to open or relock it, by means of the betty, so as to avoid subsequent detection.at betty, n.
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