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Professional Thieves and Detectives choose

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[US] A. Pinkerton Professional Thieves and Detectives 159: Damnation! I’m up in a balloon this time! It’s all over. The damned thing’s gone [HDAS].
at up in a balloon under balloon, n.
[US] A. Pinkerton Professional Thieves and Detectives 35: Here are the ‘beauties;’ and he whipped out two ten-dollar bills, counterfeits.
at beauty, n.1
[US] A. Pinkerton Professional Thieves and Detectives 583: Sheridan [...] the ‘brains’ and leader of ‘bank-sneaks.’.
at brain, n.1
[US] A. Pinkerton Professional Thieves and Detectives 59: He would be associated with a gang of ‘bank bursters’.
at buster, n.1
[US] A. Pinkerton Professional Thieves and Detectives 24: You helped break up the ‘coney men’ and horse-thieves on ‘Bogus Island’.
at coney, n.1
[US] A. Pinkerton Professional Thieves and Detectives 59: Silk robberies, or, in criminal parlance, [...] ‘swag-getters’.
at swag-getter (n.) under swag, n.1
[US] A. Pinkerton Professional Thieves and Detectives 34: I frequently ‘work off’ the stuff in paying my men Saturday nights, when travelling through the country.
at work off (v.) under work, v.
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