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[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 220: He stayed in a place doing the grand, and sucking the flats, till the folks began to smoke him as not all there.
at not all there, adj.
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 246: She were an out and outer in going into shops on the filch.
at out-and-outer, n.
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 30: They were of all grades of society, from the City merchant to the wretched little street Arab.
at arab, n.
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 203: I afterwards heard that my wideawake friend cleared over £16,000 out of the transaction.
at wide-awake, adj.
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 140: We ain’t any of us proud, so if you have’nt all got sheeroots, throw us baccy.
at bacca, n.
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 123: There is no doubt but there are many of the officials of the convict prisons who are what the Yankees call ‘bad eggs.’.
at bad egg (n.) under bad, adj.
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 221: You came down with the last batch from the Bank, didn’t yer?
at Bank, the, n.
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 295: The director ordered him to be ‘bashed’ or flogged.
at bash, v.
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 157: There were the evidences of former floggings, or ‘bashings,’ as the prisoners call them.
at bashing, n.
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 199: Greedy beggar, I shall look sharp after him next time.
at beggar, n.
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 257: He would chatter gaily and enter with gusto into the details of some cleverly executed ‘bit of business,’ or ‘bilking the blues,’ – evading the police.
at bilk, v.
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 32: They depended on [...] the fact that in nine cases out of ten an ‘old bird’ would betray himself.
at old bird, n.
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 167: The fifty men on his landing all had some wants to be attended to, but he came to look after his new birds first.
at bird, n.1
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 61: On alighting from the ‘sable maria’ we were ushered through a door into a long, white-washed passage, with cells on one side.
at Black Maria, n.
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 245: Blessed if they didn’t identify her as having lifted some things out of the shop.
at blessed, adj.
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 222: The Spaniards would always ’elp a bloke if he was once over the lines.
at bloke, n.
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 222: I worked in the galleries a making casemates for the guns, and blooming hard work it was.
at blooming, adj.1
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 182: The master-tailor was a peppery little man [...] very fond of ‘blowing up’ and never liking to be contradicted.
at blow up, v.1
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 235: Once we had a rare blow-out at some swell’s place at Aigburth.
at blow-out, n.1
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 244: Blowed, old man, if we don’t go to Paris.
at I’ll be blowed! (excl.) under blowed, adj.1
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 4: Both desisted from their own recriminations as to ‘rounding’ and ‘blowing’ on each other.
at blowing, n.3
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 231: I pictured to myself his sitting in that room [...] papered with that terrible paper, and full of the suffering of a fit of blue devils.
at blue devils, n.
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 257: He would [...] enter with great gusto into the details of some cleverly executed ‘bit of business,’ or ‘bilking the blues,’ — evading the police.
at bilk the blues (v.) under blue, n.1
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 257: He would chatter gaily and enter with gusto into the details of some cleverly executed ‘bit of business,’ or ‘bilking the blues’ – evading the police.
at blues, n.2
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 237: He would palm upon him [...] a tanner, a bob, or half a bull, according to what coin he gave to be changed.
at bob, n.3
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 244: I proposed we should have a booze.
at booze, n.
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 189: Little Jemmy, the master-tailor, was a principal warder, as was also the master-shoemaker, and they were each ‘Boss’ over their own shops.
at boss, n.2
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 303: Oh, bother the fellows!
at bother, v.
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 121: Now and again a warder does get ‘bowled out,’ and comes to grief.
at bowl out (v.) under bowl, v.
[UK] Five Years’ Penal Servitude 262: One of a gang who practised with the ‘Broads’ card-sharping and the ‘confidence trick’.
at broads, n.
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