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[US] G. Thompson Anna Mowbray 10: Let us have a room and some good lush, where we can ogle the boodle and reg up.
at boodle, n.1
[US] G. Thompson Anna Mowbray 9: The big negro had ‘broke’ the little white boy, with whom he had been playing ‘penny bluff,’ that is, had won all his money from him.
at break, v.1
[US] G. Thompson Anna Mowbray 9: John Carr (the cripple) [...] requested to be conveyed to Boy Jack’s crib, (the name of a thieves’ den,) where he soon drank himself insensible.
at crib, n.1
[US] G. Thompson Anna Mowbray 12: Upon the wall hung every implement used by house breakers in their lawless calling – false and skeleton keys (in flash termed dubs).
at dub, n.1
[US] G. Thompson Anna Mowbray 12: Upon the wall hung every implement used by house breakers in their lawless calling – false and skeleton keys (in flash termed dubs), dark lanterns, (glims,) small iron crow bars (London jimmies).
at jemmy, n.3
[US] G. Thompson Anna Mowbray 13: The Rev. saint strutted off, muttering something about the impudence of the lower orders.
at rev, n.1
[US] G. Thompson Anna Mowbray 10: The pigs are after us and these shyse coves [footnote: loafers] must not spot us.
at shice, adj.
[US] G. Thompson Anna Mowbray 11: Shoot the pit, lads – the hounds are out! Guinea Bill has betrayed you!
at shoot, v.
[US] G. Thompson Anna Mowbray 11: Shoot the pit, lads – the hounds are out! Guinea Bill has betrayed you!
at shoot the pit (v.) under shoot, v.
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