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Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 102/1: Captain Grant was a skillful ‘buz-man’ and reckoned A No. 1 among the fraternity.at A-1, adj.
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 102/1: Captain Grant was a skillful ‘buz-man’ and reckoned A No. 1 among the fraternity. Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 108/2: Ned being an inveterate ‘lushington’ [he] soon got ‘turned up’ by the A. 1. No. 1’s, and necessarily became a trudger in the rear of a third-rate ‘duffer’.at A-1, n.
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 38/1: He oughtn’t to ‘lush’ my wife as he has done. She’s lying in the bar-room now as drunk as blazes.at drunk as (a)..., adj.
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 133/2: If I’m to be in the job at all, it shall be as an insider else turn me up at once; I don’t care a curse.at not care a curse, v.
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 22/1: We had plenty of ‘sugar;’ plenty of bl—dy cheek, and didn’t care a tinker’s curse for anything.at not care a tinker’s (curse), v.
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 18/2: Jack replied that he did not care a — how tough it was.at not give a damn, v.
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 37/1: As soon as all were seated, Tommy received the usual order to bring in half a dozen of his French best, and no ‘bloody flies’.at no flies (about)!, excl.
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 62/2: A large skittle-ball in one hand and a broken alderman (short pipe) in the other. [Ibid.] 107/1: He, a long alderman and a pot of ‘heavy’ were inseparable during the season.at alderman, n.
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 80/1: A friend of Joe’s who lived in Silver Street, a rather wide-awake locality.at wide-awake, adj.
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 93/2: He is a regular little swine, and if I don’t mistake he has been the means of ‘putting away’ a lot of men to the ‘cops’.at put away, v.
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 35/1: The ‘flatties’ round the room were treated to as much [wine] as they could put away.at put away, v.
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 56/1: As for jewelry — get back! — bought, borrowed or stolen, ’twas thar!at get back!, excl.
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 74/1: An opening leading from the street to the back slums beyond.at back slums (n.) under back, adj.2
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 86/1: This took away our profit, and though we had the best rush of customers among the ‘cross cribs,’ we soon found that we were going to bad.at to the bad under bad, n.
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 93/1: He knew a place where there was certain to be a ‘big fresh’ and we could not fail in ‘bagging’ a few ‘skins’ there.at bag, v.
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 31/2: I have seen heavier ‘bags’ gotten from the poor ‘molls’ in the orange market in Duke’s place.at bag, n.1
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 107/2: As with others of a lower distinction in ‘fakeology,’ if the ‘bag’ was ‘not thar’ neither was the wine.at bag, n.1
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 153/3: The first victim we collared was an old lady who, after securely tying up her ‘soot-bag,’ (reticule) carfully stowed it away in a large [...] pocket under her petticoat.at soot-bag, n.
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 84/1: Owing to Squib’s sickness, ‘sugar’ was beginning to run shot at home; so Mag thought she would take a run out and try to bring a ‘bag off’.at bring a bag off (v.) under bag, n.1
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 22/1: ‘Hurrah! the “Bag is off” at last,’ cries Jack, as he saw the ‘quids’ and paper thrown out on the table.at the bag is off! (excl.) under bag, n.1
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 39/1: He seemed to be about as much baked up as any of us, and not in the best of humor.at baked, adj.
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 51/2: That mean ‘barbering’ Curley has been hanging round him all the time.at barber, v.
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 7/2: I have been ‘barbered’ by some one while I was asleep, and every bloody ‘mag’ in my ‘kick’ is ‘namassed’.at barber, v.
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 155/2: There I stood, beside the unwieldy old barge, who never even attempted to apologise for the pain she was the means of me enduring.at barge, n.1
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 19/1: In the hopes of finding some means of ‘barneying’ the job, I asked what made him so certain about the apartments. [Ibid.] 87/2: The affair was about being ‘barneyed’ when Yellow Jemmy hinted that if we’d allow Black Bill to be in it, he would do that job as part of his share in the ‘burst’.at barney, v.
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 48/1: Something struck me that there was a ‘barney’ on somewhere, and that the job was going to turn out, ‘Get all you can; but more if you can,’ on each side.at barney, n.2
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 26/2: Sold — as dead as Barney’s bulls — the little curse has ‘namased’ after ‘kidding’ me out of my ‘super’.at as dead as Barney’s bull(s) under barney’s bull, n.
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 156/2: Perhaps she thought me ‘lagged,’ or at least ‘doing’ heavy ‘bat of stir’.at bat, n.3
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 74/2: On the mantlepiece [...] a few penny pictures and ‘bawbee stookeys’ intermixed with snarls of thread.at baubee, n.
Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 22/2: In his affliction Joe pretty well ‘let the cat out of the bag.’ So to save all further chance of a ‘bawl-out,’ I pretended to my fair partner that I had an errand in my bag, and off I made to Joe.at bawl-out, n.1
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