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A Cop Remembers 136: They used to call them ‘block and fall joints.’ You get a shock [i.e. a drink of cheap liquor] walk a block and fall in the gutter.at block and fall joint, n.
A Cop Remembers 136: They used to call them ‘block and fall joints.’ You get a shock [i.e. a drink of cheap liquor] walk a block and fall in the gutter. A Cop Remembers 284: That was a good arrest, Officer [...] Got him dead bang with the goods.at bang, adv.
(ref. to late 19C) A Cop Remembers 125: Have you ever heard of ‘Burny blowers’? [...] ‘Burny’ was a mixture of snuff and cocaine and the addict carried a piece of rubber hose through which he sniffed the stuff by placing one end in his nose and the other in his mouth, blowing the dope as far as possible up the nose.at burny blower, n.
Cop Remembers 139: Did you ever drink watermelon buck? Well, take mah tip, Son, and don’t. That’s the stuff that makes a rabbit look for a dawg.at buck, n.7
Cop Remembers 125: ‘Burny’ was a mixture of snuff and cocaine and the addict carried a piece of rubber hose through which he sniffed the stuff by placing one end in his nose and the other in his mouth, blowing the dope as far as possible up the nose.at burny, n.
Cop Remembers 285: He’s a professional rubber-check artist and ‘kiter.’ (A kiter is a man who steals small checks from the mail and raises them. Rubber checks are worthless checks that bounce back for lack of funds.).at rubber cheque, n.
(con. 1900s) Cop Remembers 137: I’m not telling this to prove the merits of ‘cooping,’ but it has its good as well as its bad aspects. [...] under the two platoon system it was almost impossible in a busy precinct to get a moment’s relaxation while on reserve. The Station Houses were noisy, filthy, vermin-ridden and foul and a clean bed somewhere on post was preferable to a bed behind the green lights.at coop, v.
Cop Remembers 135: I had a key to the side door of John Hoffman’s grocery store and on late tour it was a great coop.at coop, n.1
A Cop Remembers 141: Mrs. Torri had a restaurant there with a famous cuisine that brought to her table [many customers] — also cops, but mostly on the cuff for they made themselves helpful and she paid them in kindness.at on the cuff under cuff, n.2
Cop Remembers 53: Don’t think for one moment that some of those fags can’t put up a battle.at fag, n.4
Cop Remembers 73: He’s a left-footer. He’s Dutch anyhow.at left-footer, n.
(con. 1890s) Cop Remembers 82–3: The new men [police recruits] were called ‘Goo-Goos’ or if they were American born, a rare thing in those early days, they were known as ‘Narrow-backs’.at goo-goo, n.2
Cop Remembers 114: Taking their pedigrees was my job and I also helped make out bail bonds, a very lucrative graft in the old days.at graft, n.1
Cop Remembers 299: The creep joints and panel workers of the old days have been replaced by the gyp joints of the prohibition era.at gyp joint (n.) under gyp, n.1
Cop Remembers 188: In gratitude for this favor she gave the party herself. In other words, it went on the ice, as they say in police parlance.at ice, n.1
Cop Remembers 299–300: If you lose your check book in a speakeasy, [...] the usual game is to kite or raise your checks and then have girls call you up at your office or at your home and make all kinds of trouble for you.at kite, v.
Cop Remembers 285: He’s a professional rubber-check artist and ‘kiter.’ (A kiter is a man who steals small checks from the mail and raises them. Rubber checks are worthless checks that bounce back for lack of funds).at kiter (n.) under kite, v.
Cop Remembers 324: The [ex-convict] is in good health today and as we say in police parlance, is living on the legit.at legit, n.
Cop Remembers 308: The negroes tried to put up a fight but the boys took them to the docks where they gave them their lumps, for it looked like a nasty job to me.at give someone lumps (v.) under lump, n.
Cop Remembers 289: ‘Lush grafters’ robbing drunks.at lush worker (n.) under lush, n.1
Cop Remembers 44: Whenever a troublesome character hung around the bars too long the bartenders slipped him a Mickey Finn, a violent purgative which was put into his drinks.at slip someone a mickey (v.) under mickey, n.1
(con. 1890s) Cop Remembers 82–3: The new men [police recruits] were called ‘Goo-Goos’ or if they were American born, a rare thing in those early days, they were known as ‘Narrow-backs’.at narrowback, n.
Cop Remembers 300: ‘Listen, George,’ said one of them. ‘This isn’t a nine-o’clock town is it? It’s too early to turn in.’.at nine o’clock town (n.) under nine, n.
A Cop Remembers 84: Just make a noise like a fish but keep your eyes open.at make a noise like... (v.) under noise, n.1
A Cop Remembers 20: I am satisfied that job was the work of people who knew a great deal about the movements of the Lindbergh family. Was it done for revenge, perhaps, with a throw off on the ransom note?at throw-off, n.
Cop Remembers 33: Now, [I] advanced to the position of pearl diver, [...] the title the Bowery gave to its dishwashers.at pearl diver (n.) under pearl, n.1
Cop Remembers 127: I locked her up finally and after her pedigree had been taken at the desk, she was turned over to the matron.at pedigree, n.
Cop Remembers 289: ‘Peter men’ (persons who use knockout drops for purposes of robbery, a great Polish and Russian game, by the way).at peterman (n.) under peter, n.5
Cop Remembers 316: When we got to her she was hitting the pipe, which is police parlance for smoking opium.at hit the pipe (v.) under pipe, n.1
Cop Remembers 310: Thus [...] a great many criminals are driven out of town, for they can’t stand the continuous frisking and polishing.at polish, v.
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