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Ups and Downs of a Crook’s Life 29: ‘Big-mouthed Scotty,’ who could pick a pocket-book [...] about as neatly as anybody.at big-mouthed, adj.
Ups and Downs of a Crook’s Life 29: ‘Big-mouthed Scotty,’ who could pick a pocket-book [...] about as neatly as anybody. Ups and Downs of a Crook’s Life 26: Mickey struck me for the loan of a hundred ‘bones’. [Ibid.] 67: At the Mott Street dive, where I spent about twenty ‘bones’ with the boys.at bone, n.4
Ups and Downs of a Crook’s Life 29: He advised me to get a gun, as the crooks always call a pistol, and if Jim attempted any more of his funny business, to pull the gun and give him a bluff, or, if necessary, to ‘bore’ him in the leg once.at bore, v.1
Ups and Downs of a Crook’s Life 42: He said he was strapped, and I loaned him $5.at strapped (for cash), adj.
Ups and Downs of a Crook’s Life 40: He [...] had ‘got the collar’ in a down-town bank. He was railroaded up to Sing Sing.at collar, n.
Ups and Downs of a Crook’s Life 18: I was very much afraid that Billy was going to ‘do me dirt’ by giving me the slip after I had got the boodle.at do dirt to someone (v.) under dirt, n.
Ups and Downs of a Crook’s Life 23: Several times the ‘layer down’ was caught.at layer down, n.
Ups and Downs of a Crook’s Life 42: I assured him that I would either fix him up myself, or send him to a man across-town who would set him to work.at fix up, v.1
Ups and Downs of a Crook’s Life 78: Now, fork over!at fork over, v.
Ups and Downs of a Crook’s Life 79: He didn’t care to be seen around his old stamping ground.at stamping ground(s), n.1
Ups and Downs of a Crook’s Life 10: Mickey was one of the Tombs court ‘hangers-around,’ a sort of snide, who pretended to have a political pull [...] for getting people discharged.at hangaround (n.) under hang, v.2
Ups and Downs of a Crook’s Life 65: They said that Bartlett had a paper on a jug over on Eighth Avenue.at jug, n.1
Ups and Downs of a Crook’s Life 32: Hughy Kelly, better known as ‘Blinky,’ a notorious ‘Knuck’.at knuck, n.
Ups and Downs of a Crook’s Life 78: I saw at least $100 in it before you ‘knucked’ it off the old gentleman.at knuck, v.
Ups and Downs of a Crook’s Life 15: He said to them that I was going to ‘lay down’ a paper at the ‘jug’ and pull off a good big trick.at paper, n.
Ups and Downs of a Crook’s Life 69: Billy Knapp pronounced it a first-class name, and at once sent it to the forger. Next day it came back from the pen-man, made out to the amount of three thousand dollars.at penman (n.) under pen, n.1
Ups and Downs of a Crook’s Life 78: You have been through it, and ‘weeded’ it since you ‘pinched’ it.at pinch, v.
Ups and Downs of a Crook’s Life 12: I had been ‘doing time,’ and hadn’t a ‘red’.at red, n.
Ups and Downs of a Crook’s Life 63: That shut him up, and he walked away.at shut up, v.
Ups and Downs of a Crook’s Life 143: From these people the professional criminals receive tips and the inside information [...] These men are called ‘Spotters’.at spotter, n.1
Ups and Downs of a Crook’s Life 78: You have been through it, and ‘weeded’ it since you ‘pinched’ it.at weed, v.2
Ups and Downs of a Crook’s Life 81: He advised me to ‘wring myself,’ or keep away from my old haunts for a couple of weeks.at wring oneself (out) (v.) under wring, v.
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