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How I Became a Detective 91: Down below – Alluding to the penitentiary.at down below, n.2
How I Became a Detective 91: Down below – Alluding to the penitentiary. How I Became a Detective 90: Boobie hatch – Police station.at booby-hatch, n.
How I Became a Detective 88: A ‘guinea’ or ‘Bowser’ is a woman.at bowser, n.2
How I Became a Detective 90: Brass – Phoney jewelry.at brass, n.1
How I Became a Detective 89: He [a thief] will call it a ‘caser,’ a ‘buck,’ or a ‘bone’ if it is silver.at caser, n.1
How I Became a Detective 90: Chop – Tobacco.at chop, n.2
How I Became a Detective 90: Chop – To stop.at chop, v.2
How I Became a Detective 90: Chroneer – One who begs for something to eat at private houses.at chronicker, n.
How I Became a Detective 90: Clouter – A shoplifter.at clouter, n.1
How I Became a Detective 91: Dine [...] Dan – Dynamite.at dan, n.1
How I Became a Detective 88: ‘Dope’ means morphine.at dope, n.1
How I Became a Detective 91: Dos – A bed.at doss, n.1
How I Became a Detective 88: To ‘fall’ is to be arrested.at fall, v.1
How I Became a Detective 89: A ‘pfinif’ is a five-dollar bill.at fin, n.2
How I Became a Detective 89: A ‘gag’ is anything that you want it to be. If you say, ‘pipe de gags on the bowser,’ you might mean look at the woman’s shoes or her gloves or her clothes.at gag, n.
How I Became a Detective 87: ‘Gam’ [...] means leg.at gam, n.1
How I Became a Detective 88: ‘German delight’ means beer.at German delight (n.) under German, adj.
How I Became a Detective 92: get it all v. Got it all – Life imprisonment.at get it all (v.) under get it, v.
How I Became a Detective 93: Nailed, Glued or Landed – Arrested.at glue, v.
How I Became a Detective 91: Goods – Money.at goods, n.
How I Became a Detective 89: A ‘grand’ is a thousand dollars.at grand, n.
How I Became a Detective 89: ‘Grog store’ a saloon.at grog shop (n.) under grog, n.1
How I Became a Detective 88: A ‘guinea’ or ‘Bowser’ is a woman.at guinea, n.1
How I Became a Detective 92: Harness copper – Uniformed policeman.at harness bull (n.) under harness, n.
How I Became a Detective 86: Being ‘hept’ to anything is knowing about it before [...] One thief may say to his pal, ‘Are you hept?’.at hip, v.2
How I Became a Detective 88: A ‘hipper’ is a policeman, but it is a term generally applied to a sheriff’s posse. The ‘main hipper’ is the sheriff himself.at hipper, n.
How I Became a Detective 92: Hopscotching – Taking chances.at hopscotch, v.
How I Became a Detective 92: Instrument – One who picks the pocket of a man.at instrument, n.
How I Became a Detective 92: James – A jimmy; a small crowbar.at james, n.
How I Became a Detective 92: Jerve – A vest pocket.at jerve, n.
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