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N.Y. Times 12 May 2/6: A brace of ‘Charlies’ from the city, came up to Lowell, one day this week, to see the factory girls and have a ‘spree’.at charlie, n.2
N.Y. Times 12 May 2/6: A brace of ‘Charlies’ from the city, came up to Lowell, one day this week, to see the factory girls and have a ‘spree’. N.Y. Times 7 June 2/6: All this the prisoner very calmly submitted to; but when he was requested in a very imperious manner to walk to the watch-house in the custody of a Charley, he showed fight.at charlie, n.1
N.Y. Times 24 June 2/4: One of the pleasantest excursions that can be made is by the rail road to Paterson and Passaic Falls. The scenery is interesting, and lots of cascades, cotton mills and other nice lions, reward the trouble of the tourist.at see the lions (v.) under see, v.
N.Y. Times 3 Sept. 2/5: She is a smart woman, but [...] not smart enough to come the double over him.at come the double (v.) under come the..., v.
N.Y. Times 9 July 2/4: He shewed fight when taken but found the Police to be a more ugly customer to him than even Vanderzee was.at ugly customer (n.) under ugly, adj.
N.Y. Times 23 Dec. 2/7: Nothing was ‘too hot or too heavy’ for these [thieves].at hot and heavy, phr.
N.Y. Times 14 Jan. 2/6: Thomas Brown [...] was inflicting a pretty strong dose of strapponia on the shoulders of his better half.at better half, n.
N.Y. Times 18 Aug. 2/7: [The Irishman] was only gammoning the auctioneer, and pitching into him like a thousand of brick.at like a ton of brick(s) (adv.) under brick, n.
N.Y. Times 9 Jan. 3/1: [A watchman,] hearing a bit of a shindy at a house occupied by a couple of ‘darkies,’ [entered, and] found both husband and wife pretty well ‘how come you so’. [Ibid.] 4 Mar. 2/6: Ald. Wheeler met a man much ‘hacomo you so’? [sic] that he was in danger of falling under the wheels of a Bowery omnibus.at how came you so, phr.
N.Y. Times 14 Jan. 2/6: Crikie jack! as the boys say.at crikey!, excl.
N.Y. Times 9 Jan. 3/1: [A watchman,] hearing a bit of a shindy at a house occupied by a couple of ‘darkies,’ [entered, and] found both husband and wife pretty well ‘how come you so’.at darkie, n.
N.Y. Times 1 Mar. 2/6: The war waged by the flints against the dungs, or in other words the strike of the Taylors.at dung, n.
N.Y. Times 1 Mar. 2/6: The war waged by the flints against the dungs, or in other words the strike of the Taylors.at flint, n.1
N.Y. Times 16 Aug. 2/6–7: Frequently a gang of half-a-dozen [thieves] combine together. Part of them act as ‘jackals’, and the others as receivers. These latter gentry take care to be on the wharf on the landing of the boat, ready to receive the booty provided by the jackals.at jackal, n.
N.Y. Times 30 Aug. 2/6: A new word. — A youth named Thompson tried yesterday for an assault, stated as a reason that the complainant was rather lippy, ie., full of lip.at lip, n.1
N.Y. Times 30 Aug. 2/6: A new word. — A youth named Thompson tried yesterday for an assault, stated as a reason that the complainant was rather lippy, ie., full of lip.at lippy, adj.
N.Y. Times 9 Jan. 3/1: [A watchman] hearing a bit of a shindy at a house occupied by a couple of ‘darkies,’ [entered, and] found both husband and wife pretty well ‘how come you so’.at shindy, n.
N.Y. Times 14 Jan. 2/6: Thomas Brown [...] was inflicting a pretty strong dose of strapponia on the shoulders of his better half.at strapponia, n.
N.Y. Times 27 2/5: [A thief is caught] with a precious whacking ham, (to use the watchman’s phrase).at whacking, adj.
N.Y. Times 30 Nov. 1/6: Officers Hogan and Clark, of the Chief’s ‘shadows’.at shadow, n.
N.Y. Times 30 Sept. 1/5: No positive orders concerning its construction will be given [...] The only further remark we have to make [...] is as to the tip-topmost finishing off.at tiptopmost (adj.) under tip-top, adj.
N.Y. Times 28 Sept. 2: When picking pockets does not pay, they [i.e. street boys] try ‘book bluffing’, that is, they sell handsome books to strangers, and then wrap it up nicely in the operation, subsituting another cheap book; making sometimes several dollars with a few books.at book bluffing (n.) under book, n.
N.Y. Times 28 Sept. 2: The Street-Boys [...] all have a slang language, so that they can recognize one another, and converse in a crowd. [...] To ‘tip a bust’ is to give a treat, and to ‘do a flat’ is to cheat a countryman.at bust, n.
N.Y. Times 28 Sept. 2: The Street-Boys [...] all have a slang language, so that they can recognize one another, and converse in a crowd. A watch is a ‘thimble,’ and a pocket-book a ‘dummie’.at dummy, n.2
N.Y. Times 4 Mar. 2: Those who thieve, usually go in gangs and employ a small lad as ‘a feeler,’ i.e., he is sent ahead, and if a piece of cloth or a basket or any little article is lying out in front, he pockets or clutches it and carries it to the older boys, who sell it at once to the junk-shops and share the spoils among themselves.at feeler, n.2
N.Y. Times 28 Sept. 2: The Street-Boys [...] all have a slang language, so that they can recognize one another, and converse in a crowd. [...] To ‘tip a bust’ is to give a treat, and to ‘do a flat’ is to cheat a countryman.at flat, n.2
N.Y. Times 28 Sept. 2: The Street-Boys [...] all have a slang language, so that they can recognize one another, and converse in a crowd. A watch is a ‘thimble,’ and a pocket-book a ‘dummie.’.at thimble, n.
N.Y. Times 5 Dec. 3/4: The arrest of a hotel sneak thief [...] for stealing an overcoat from the Astor House was published.at hotel sneak (n.) under hotel, n.
N.Y. Times 14 Feb. 8/3: Relieved of [...] potato rot [...] we can enjoy [potatoes] to our heart’s content [...] without being ranked among ‘Irish potato eaters’.at potato-eater (n.) under potato, n.
N.Y. Times July n.p.: The Dead Rabbits are sensitive on points of honour, we are assured, and wouldn’t allow a thief to live on their beat, much less be a member of their club.at beat, n.1
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