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Professional Thief 236: Cut Into, v. – Make contact with, interfere with.at cut (someone) in(to) (v.) under cut, v.2
Professional Thief 236: Cut Into, v. – Make contact with, interfere with. (con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 9: Other mobs use rip-and-tear (crude) methods that heat up (cause danger in) the spot.at rip and tear, adj.
Professional Thief in Hamilton (1952) 108: The number of members in a mob is determined [...] by the angles which are being played.at play the angles (v.) under angle, n.
(con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 80: The muzzle is one of the few rackets in which a go-back (a second attempt) can be successfully staged. In some instances two or three go-backs on the same man are successful.at go-back, n.
(con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 168: Of course, if a bad copper or a former victim came into the place, the thief would be uneasy.at bad, adj.
(con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 13: He was seen, got a pinch, the shawl was found, and then he was in bad.at in bad under bad, adj.
Professional Thief in Hamilton (1952) 121: He himself gets no money but he gets in bad.at get in bad (with) (v.) under bad, adj.
(con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 81: The badger game, in which a man is compelled to make a payment to mollify an enraged ‘husband’ with whose wife he has been caught, is one of the oldest [confidence tricks].at badger game (n.) under badger, n.1
(con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 76: A person who is in the bandhouse (work house) for beating an A.&P. store with a four-dollar cheque would refer to himself as a ‘paper-hanger’; a thief would refer to him as a clown.at bandhouse, n.
(con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 91: The coppers bawl out about the thieves, no one holds up his testimony, the judge delivers an oration, and all of them get credit for stopping a crime wave.at bawl, v.1
(con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 90: A representative [...] was beaten on a Pullman for $795 out of his drawing room.at beat, v.
(con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 25: Some get ‘the big one’ (extraordinarily large theft).at big one, n.
(con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 61: The first ‘Big Store’ of any consequence was opened by the Gondorf Brothers in New York about 1906.at big store, n.
(con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 190: A cannon of long standing was doing a bit when his mother died and he could not attend the funeral.at do a/one’s bit (v.) under bit, n.1
(con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 18: When the heel is being worked two-handed, the one who is watching will keep up a constant line of talk or blah in order to make the operation seem natural.at blah, n.
(con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 94: The court realized that the victim had been reached (fixed) and started to blast him.at blast, v.1
(con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 121: A man who had just been beaten by a con mob [...] was given the blowoff and was carrying out the instructions of the inside man so enthusiastially that he actually ran towards the railway station.at blow off, n.2
(con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 24: There are hundreds of troupes entirely female on the boost.at on the boost under boost, v.2
(con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 49: Both the heel and the booster are professionals, different from amateur shoplifters, who are known as snatch-and-grab or boot-and-shoe boosters.at snatch-and-grab booster (n.) under booster, n.2
(con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 22: When he was caught and discharged, he was filled in by a boosting mob.at boosting mob, n.
(con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 48: Special names are given to the pockets such as left or right breech (front trouser pocket), left or right prat (hip pocket), tail pit (side pocket), fob (under the belt), and insider (inside coat pocket). A left-breech tool is one who can steal from the left-front trouser pocket, which is unusually difficult.at breech, n.
(con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 119: Unquestionably a real thief would rather have an arrest on a good rap than on a bum one. When the rap is right, he knows what to do and how to go about it. He knows whom he must square. But in a bum rap he is entirely at sea.at bum rap, n.
(con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 125: The burglar copper is not regared as a traitor to the public or as a friend but as a sensible person who is playing the game intelligently.at burglar cop (n.) under burglar, n.
(con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 7: Friendly relations have been disrupted by things like burning (holding out part of the stolen goods), or turning in (informing). [Ibid.] 37: One of the most heinous crimes in the mob is for a member to burn the others.at burn, v.
(con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 171: That mob was happy because they were able to make suckers out of a couple of expert boosters, and these two were burned up about it.at burned up, adj.
(con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 34: The leader of the cannon mob has no problems the other members do not have, except that he is more likely than the others to be arrested.at cannon mob (n.) under cannon, n.2
(con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 44: The term ‘cannon’ is used to designate the pickpocket and also the racket of picking pockets. The theory of the origin of this term is that the pickpocket some centuries ago was called a gonnif, which is the Jewish word for thief. This term was then abbreviated to ‘gun’; later someone in a moment of smartness referred to a pickpocket as a ‘cannon’ to designate a big gun, and the term ‘cannon’ then became general. The term ‘gun’ is still used to refer to pickpockets, and the female pickpocket who operates upon men is called a ‘gun-moll.’.at cannon, n.2
(con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 27: The cannon is operated very rarely single-handed. [Ibid.] 44: The term ‘cannon’ is used to designate the pickpocket and also the racket of picking pockets.at cannon, n.2
(con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 224: The ‘conny-catchers’ or ‘card sharps’ were the nucleus of the entire profession of thieves and swindlers.at cony-catcher, n.1
(con. 1905–25) Professional Thief (1956) 6: They chilled for him (pretended not to recognise him) and kept on going.at chill (for) (v.) under chill, v.2
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