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Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 67: ‘It’s all up, Alf,’ I said ‘you might as well give up the property.’.at all up, adj.
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 67: ‘It’s all up, Alf,’ I said ‘you might as well give up the property.’. Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 369: Showing me bacon, they placed themselves in all kinds of ignoble attitudes.at pull bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 152: These thieves, as a rule, work in gangs. It is not unusual for one of the ‘bloke-buzzers,’ as they are called [...] to push off some person’s hat. The innocent one puts up his hands to save the hat; the rest of the group gather round.at bloke-buzzer (n.) under bloke, n.
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 155: Disregarding all this bounce I requested one of the railway servants to call in my colleague.at bounce, n.1
Detective Life I 12: The ‘Rag and Louse,’ or some other equally notorious ‘boozing ken’.at bousing-ken, n.
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 27: A ‘job’ perpetrated by a gang of Sheffielders, or a gang of ‘Brums’.at Brum, n.
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 333: As he walks along the court / With a ‘big bug’ sort of air.at big bug (n.) under bug, n.1
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 17: ‘Bullies,’ or ‘Coshers’ were another kind of criminals [...] They got hold of some girl whom they compelled to lead a loose life.at bully, n.1
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 64: A score of voices yelled out ‘Bumbs! Bailiffs! Yah!’.at bum, n.2
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 243: The object is to ‘bustle’ the person who is supplying the goods.at bustle, v.2
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 67: This was a ‘clencher’ for them.at clincher, n.1
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 164: The ‘coshers’ set upon him and rob him of his watch.at cosher, n.
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 241: A sharper who was on the look-out for a suitable victim among the ‘country Johnnies’.at country johnny (n.) under country, adj.
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 50: It was hoped that the persons doing these ‘jobs,’ or ‘cracks,’ as we call them, might be brought to justice.at do a crack (v.) under crack, n.4
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 16: In this part also the sharpest of the ‘crossmen’ (thieves) congregate.at cross-man (n.) under cross, adj.
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 16: ‘Cabbage Ann’ and ‘One Armed Kitty’ were keepers of establishments, the fame of which was known to the vast majority of persons ‘on the cross’.at on the cross under cross, n.1
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 86: The quack was a ‘cute’ man of the world, as all those are who have to live by their wits.at cute, adj.
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 428: If he lives in Carter Street, Greenheys, and says that he has come from San Francisco, there is something ‘dickey’ about him. [Ibid.] II 139: This looks a bit dickey; there’s something wrong here.at dicky, adj.1
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 15: The travelling tinker [...] and with him his ‘dossy’ (woman).at dossie, n.
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 14: Amongst the frequenters of that ‘boozing ken,’ would also be found the ‘downright,’ or cadger from door to door.at downright, n.
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 49: They had them at the Police Station where they locked me up for my ‘drag’.at drag, n.1
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 12: The occupants of such houses chiefly graduated from ‘snow-droppers’ (strippers of clothes-lines) to ‘cracksmen’ (burglars).at snow-dropper, n.
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 13: ‘Dry land sailors’ [...] were to be seen daily parading Shudehill [...] For many years these land sharks drove a thriving trade, but the day for dry land sailors and ‘smuggled’ goods has long since passed away.at dry-land sailor, n.
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 34: ‘What a lot of flats you have brought with you’ (flats being the thieves’ term for policemen in uniform).at flatfoot, n.
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 14: Amongst the frequenters of that ‘boozing ken,’ would also be [...] the ‘fly,’ or cadger who begs from ladies and gentlemen along the ‘tober’.at fly man (n.) under fly, adj.
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 14: The ‘high-flier,’ or begging-letter imposter would be ‘pattering’ to the ‘shallow cove’.at high-flyer, n.
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 17: A few years ago it was common conversation in criminal neighbourhoods to talk of who was for the ‘big fulley’ (assizes), or the ‘little fulley’ (sessions).at fully, v.
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 333: He will never more / The Anarchists attempt to floor, / The D. who broke his gamp at Ardwick Green, O.at gamp, n.
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 101: Each believing that the other has informed of him, whilst ‘Scotty’ was wild with both, telling them that they had been using ‘garden stuff,’ meaning that they had been giving information.at garden stuff (n.) under garden, n.
Twenty-Five Years of Detective Life I 332: He brought them before the beak, and thought to give it them hot, / But his little game was off.at give it to, v.
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