1899 C. Rook Hooligan Nights 29: You can’t get into a gang wivout you’ve done somefink big.at big, adj.
1899 C. Rook Hooligan Nights 24: I was well in the thick of where the lads carry on the biz.at biz, n.1
1899 C. Rook Hooligan Nights 133: Burglaries are often committed on the information given away by servants [...] The young man who walks out with her [i.e. a servant girl], and takes a sympathetic interest in her employers’ affairs, rarely takes a hand in the actual work. He is known as a ‘black cap’ or ‘white sheep’, and is usually looked upon as useful in his way, but a bit too soft for the hard grind of the business.at black cap (n.) under black, adj.
1899 C. Rook Hooligan Nights 61: There was the little bleeder gettin’ black in the face.at bleeder, n.
1899 C. Rook Hooligan Nights 9: The uvver boys didn’t want asking more’n once to do a poor bloke a good turn.at bloke, n.
1899 C. Rook Hooligan Nights 110: It seems to be an ordinary twopenny smoke. Cabbage, with a bit of tobacco-leaf wrapped round.at cabbage, n.2
1899 C. Rook Hooligan Nights 36: A smart youngster, who had done something class in the way of nicking.at class, adj.
1899 C. Rook Hooligan Nights 25: The accerabat jumps up and catches me a clip over the jaw.at clip, n.2
1899 C. Rook Hooligan Nights 49: Blackmailing is [...] only to be resorted to when you haven’t one copper to rub against another.at copper, n.