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(con. 1900–30) in Samuel East End Und. 282: Jack’s alive – Fiver.at jack’s (alive), n.
(con. 1900–30) in Samuel East End Und. 282: Jack’s alive – Fiver. (con. c.1906) in Samuel East End Und. 264: In Bethnal Green they had speakers who were barred at other places – the out-and-outers.at out-and-outer, n.
(con. c.1895) in Samuel East End Und. 42: I had been sleeping rough for about three weeks [...] there were a lot of ins and outs by Old Montague Street.at in-and-out, n.1
(con. c.1920) in Samuel East End Und. 182: Posh Reed took over the job of paying the police – you know, the ‘banker’.at banker, n.
(con. c.1900) in Samuel East End Und. 111: A lot of garotting went on. Five years and a bashing you got for it – eighteen strokes with the cat.at bashing, n.
(con. c.1910) in Samuel East End Und. 126: They sent girls out ‘on the batter’ and lumbered the men they brought in.at batter, v.
(con. c.1910) in Samuel East End Und. 119: Cocky Flatnose [...] said to me ‘blag the box’, i.e. the banker’s bank or owner’s kitty.at blag, v.
(con. c.1900) in Samuel East End Und. 75: In the early years he used to go what they called ‘shoot-flying’ – stealing watch chains by getting hold of them and tugging. [...] They also called it ‘blagging’.at blagging (n.) under blag, v.
(con. c.1920) in Samuel East End Und. 220: I think his shop may have been a ‘blind’ for another business.at blind, n.1
(con. c.1900) in Samuel East End Und. 37: His father and his uncle used to play the ‘Crown and Anchor’, going about with the boards.at boards, n.
(con. 1900–30) in Samuel East End Und. 284: Straight bogy – A crooked policeman (i.e. one who works with crooks).at straight bogey (n.) under bogey, n.1
(con. c.1900) in Samuel East End Und. 148: You twisters – you always have the bogies on your side.at bogey, n.1
(con. c.1900) in Samuel East End Und. 133: I was with Esther, another was with ‘Jew Boy’ Stevens – the CID man at Commercial Street.at Jew boy, n.
(con. 1900–30) in Samuel East End Und. 281: Brass nail – Prostitute. The girls had the cheek of the devil.at brass, n.2
(con. c.1910) in Samuel East End Und. 102: They were a family that I would call ‘well-breeched’.at breeched, adj.
(con. c.1900s) in Samuel East End Und. 111: Some of the brides went with thieves, luring men home and having them coshed.at bride, n.
(con. c.1900) in Samuel East End Und. 39: They had a better class of play at the ‘Standard’, but it wasn’t so near as the ‘Brit’.at Brit, the, n.
(con. 1900–30) in Samuel East End Und. 281: Broads – The three-card trick.at broads, n.
(con. 1900–30) in Samuel East End Und. 281: Broad mob – The three-card mob.at broad mob (n.) under broads, n.
(con. c.1900s) in Samuel East End Und. 114: His uncle was a broad-player.at broad-player (n.) under broads, n.
(con. 1900–30) in Samuel East End Und. 281: Have you got your cane? Have you got your stick?at cane, n.1
(con. 1900–30) in Samuel East End Und. 281: You’ll get a carpet for it.at carpet, n.2
(con. 1900–30) in Samuel East End Und. 281: Case – Brothel. ‘I went case last night.’ If a chap turned up late you would say, ‘What, were you case last night?’.at case, n.3
(con. 1900–30) in Samuel East End Und. 282: Dabble – Stolen property.at dabble, n.
(con. c.1910) in Samuel East End Und. 123: He was a Romany, a Didicai.at diddicoi, n.
(con. c.1910) in Samuel East End Und. 80: You kept changing partners in the coining line, because if you got off and the others were ‘done’, people would think you had ‘dropped’ on them (i.e. squealed).at done, adj.
(con. 1900–30) in Samuel East End Und. 282: Doubler – A bent policeman who will cop your money and do you at the same time.at doubler, n.1
(con. c.1910) in Samuel East End Und. 82: We were putting down 4s pieces.at put down, v.1
(con. 1900–30) in Samuel East End Und. 282: The drag – The Black Maria. Prison van. ‘The bleeding drag’s a long time coming,’ you might say when you were waiting in the cells to be taken to prison.at drag, n.1
(con. c.1907) in Samuel East End Und. n.p.: preface: Giving evidence before the Royal Commission on the Metropolitan Police in 1907 [...] he was described as the ‘king’ or ‘captain’ of the Brick Lane van-draggers. [Ibid.] 112: Most of them got their time for van-dragging.at van dragger, n.
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