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(con. 1900s) Behind The Green Lights 101: I see you’ve copped a plea.at cop a plea, v.
(con. 1900s) Behind The Green Lights 101: I see you’ve copped a plea. (con. 1900) Behind The Green Lights 40: The place in the captain’s mind was a ‘black and tan’ joint on 27th street.at black and tan club, n.
(con. 1910s) Behind The Green Lights 162: He turned and addressed a beautiful young girl in the bed, he called out, ‘Hey, animal, didn’t I tell you to get up!’.at animal, n.1
(con. 1900s) Behind The Green Lights 76: I had no compunction against picking up ‘trimmers,’ ‘badgers,’ or ‘creepers’.at badger, n.1
(con. 1915) Behind The Green Lights 199: I’ll be glad to go back to the Big Town!at big town, n.
Behind The Green Lights 257: I knew him to be a ‘police buff,’ a ‘buff’ being a civilian who is enthusiastic about police work without being an actual criminologist. A fire ‘buff’ is just as big a ‘bug’.at buff, n.2
(con. 1910s) Behind The Green Lights 157: ‘You’ve pulled a bull,’ I said, ‘so take your medicine.’.at pull a bull (v.) under bull, n.2
(con. 1900s) Behind The Green Lights 134: Superiors are suspicious people and there were those who figured the department was being buncoed.at bunco, v.
(con. 1920s) Behind The Green Lights 325: Here’s a gat [...] As soon as you leave, bunk it until you’re ready to do the job.at bunk, v.4
(con. 1915) Behind The Green Lights 193: The man went to the chair carrying a picture of his victim.at chair, the, n.
(con. 1920s) Behind The Green Lights 333: You never know what a cokey will do.at cokie, n.
(con. 1900s) Behind The Green Lights 120: We collared them, and carted them along to the cells.at collar, v.
(con. 1910s) Behind The Green Lights 171: If we grab the daughter and the mother, we’re cooked.at cooked, adj.
(con. 1918) Behind The Green Lights 213: A cool hand, that Schmidt.at cool hand (n.) under cool, adj.
(con. 1900s) Behind The Green Lights 138: I learned that the Deaf and Dumb Asylum on Throggs Neck was a ‘coop’ for the mounted men.at coop, n.1
(con. 1890s) Behind The Green Lights 25: I whaled the nearest fellow so hard that he flew against an iron pillar [...] crashed down in a heap – out for a good long count.at out for the count (adj.) under count, n.3
(con. 1900s) Behind The Green Lights 71: ‘Creep and panel’ cases were extremely difficult to handle for the victims seldom dared to complain.at creep, v.
(con. 1900s) Behind The Green Lights 72: In the sporting Negro quarter, the creepers frequently were armed with razors.at creeper, n.
(con. 1910s) Behind The Green Lights 151: You know damned well I wouldn’t go down to Jefferson Market and beg off for a cruiser if I didn’t have an object in view.at cruiser, n.
(con. 1900s) Behind The Green Lights 135: ‘Not only does he bless me, but he invites me to come and se him. Think of that, and me a Far Down.’ A Far Down being an Ulsterman.at far-down, n.
(con. 1890s) Behind The Green Lights 5: I stole one of the sacks [...] piled in my duds, and hid myself where I could watch the gang-plank.at duds, n.1
(con. 1900s) Behind The Green Lights 91: May worked a fast one on me.at pull a fast one (v.) under fast one, n.
(con. 1900s) Behind The Green Lights 106: ‘It’s all right officer, I’m a cop myself!’ ‘Well if you are, flash!’ The order to show me his shield.at flash, v.1
(con. 1910s) Behind The Green Lights 186: He eventually had flunked in his college examinations.at flunk, v.
(con. 1900s) Behind The Green Lights 97: A force of ‘shoo flies’ – roundsmen in civilian clothes – were sent out regularly from Headquarters to sweep into a precinct and look over the men. The ‘shooflies’ were expected to make complaints – or ‘didos’ as the policemen called them.at shoo-fly, n.
(con. 1914) Behind The Green Lights 291: We [...] found the Greaser’s gun moll, a mighty good looking kid named Laura.at gun moll, n.
(con. 1920s) Behind The Green Lights 320: Hey, cap, there’s a ‘gun’ outside. Wants to see you.at gun, n.1
(con. 1900s) Behind The Green Lights 77: He rushed across the street to where the hackie was standing and let fly for the jaw.at hackie, n.
(con. 1915) Behind The Green Lights 196: We have a glass of beer with our meals [...] there’s no need for hard stuff.at hard stuff, n.
(con. 1900s) Behind The Green Lights 101: Say, Bones [...] what do you say to a smoke and a heat?at heat, n.
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