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Police! 268: Another ‘stock-in-trade’ consisted of a key-saw, a chisel [...] a ‘little alderman’ – a jemmy in two parts which can be screwed together – and a number of skeleton keys.at alderman, n.
Police! 268: Another ‘stock-in-trade’ consisted of a key-saw, a chisel [...] a ‘little alderman’ – a jemmy in two parts which can be screwed together – and a number of skeleton keys. Police! 321: A scarf and tie ... An apple-guard.at apple-guard (n.) under apple, n.1
Police! 321: A billycock ... A slouch, head-guard, wake.at wide-awake, n.
Police! 321: To inform ... To come it, to bark.at bark, v.2
Police! 321: Fowl-stealing ...Biped-gathering, beaker-hunting.at beaker-hunter (n.) under beaker, n.2
Police! 322: Coiners ... Bit-makers, snidemen, moulders.at bit-maker (n.) under bit, n.1
Police! 322: Sheep-stealing ... Fleecy claiming, May gathering, bleating marching.at bleating marching (n.) under bleat, v.
Police! 226: The chief actors, with their immediate supporters, had travelled as a ‘blind’ on omnibuses, with hampers of pigeons and men displaying guns, as though they were going to a pigeon-shooting match.at blind, n.1
Police! 249: Non-privileged cabmen are termed ‘Bluchers’.at blucher, n.
Police! 320: A policeman ... A fly, [...] body-snatcher, raw lobster, tin ribs, stalk, danger signal, terror etc.at body-snatcher, n.
Police! 223: All persons possessed of valuables are roughly handled; they are ‘bonneted,’ robbed of money, watch and chain, rings, pins.at bonnet, v.
Police! 350: There is another kind of cracksmen who work on common booze cribs.at booze crib (n.) under booze, n.
Police! 322: Drunken thief ... Boozing gonoph.at boozing, n.
Police! 321: Shoplifting ... Damper-drawing, bouncing.at bounce, v.1
Police! 347: Shoplifters, or ‘bouncers,’ are of a different class [...] There are nearly always two of them.at bouncer, n.1
Police! 320: A shilling ... A bob, breaky, deaner, midgic.at breakyleg, n.1
Police! 348: ‘Picking-up molls’ [...] are ‘put on’ to old ‘swells’ who are the worse for drink, or farmers and other who may be in the same condition, and having got them into corners or secluded places, ease them of their money and watches. Should an outcry be made, their ‘guns,’ or ‘bullies,’ come to their help.at bully, n.1
Police! 237: He is known as the ‘Irish busker’ [...] In ‘flash’ language, the resorts are described, not as lodging houses, but [...] ‘dossing cribs,’ ‘snoozing jugs,’ ‘cadgers’ covers,’ ‘tourist cabins,’ and ‘buskers’ retreats.’.at busker, n.
Police! 345: This was the way in which the ‘bustle’ was worked, and the gentleman, unconscious of his loss, was glad to escape what seemed to be a scandal. Shortly afterwards, however, he discovered the loss of his pocket-book.at bustle, v.1
Police! 343: ‘Buzzing a tenner’ [...] The gold was placed on the counter, and the thief quickly palmed a sovereign and instantly stuck it to the wax placed by his companion [...] an altercation took place between the ‘buzzer’ and the shopkeeper. The police having been sent for, I went and searched the man from top to toe. Nothing was found.at buzzer, n.1
Police! 7: The Mohocks [...] under a frenzy of drunkeness, joined in a general sally upon inoffensive persons, whom they knocked down, stabbed, cut, or carbonardoed.at carbonado, v.
Police! 322: Changing names and numbers on watches ... Re-christening thimbles.at christen, v.
Police! 322: Sheep-stealing ... Fleecy claiming.at fleecy-claiming, n.
Police! 345: Gunners and grasshoppers sneak about watching their opportunities to get up the ‘dancers’, and to ‘dig themselves away,’ [...] in the ‘cloud’ (attic), until all is quiet.at cloud, n.
Police! 321: Acquitted at sessions or assizes ... Clucked.at cluck, v.2
Police! 321: To inform ... To come it.at come it, v.1
Police! 321: A silk hat ... [...] concertina (broken).at concertina, n.1
Police! 348: ‘Coshers’ and ‘trippers’ or ‘picking-up molls’, are vile men and women who travel from town to town.at cosher, n.
Police! 322: Cattle-stealing ... Moo shifting.at moo-cow, n.
Police! 346: This class of thieves [...] always go about the house with their ‘crabs’ off.at crabs, n.2
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