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Half a Million Tramps 324: I was the Secretary, Treasurer, speaker, and, in fact, head cook and bottle washer of the union.at chief cook and bottle-washer, n.
Half a Million Tramps 324: I was the Secretary, Treasurer, speaker, and, in fact, head cook and bottle washer of the union. Half a Million Tramps 303: On the beach, fellah?at on the beach under beach, n.
Half a Million Tramps 305: ‘If you want to go cheap,’ he said, ‘just go down the yard and “beat a freight” [...] when you see a train leaving jump on it and hang on until it stops, and then get into one of the empty “box cars”.’.at beat a freight (v.) under beat, v.
Half a Million Tramps 307: I’m going to Monkton to-night in the ‘blind baggage’ [...] The ‘Blind’ facing the back end of the engine is unused, and so provides a small space.at blind, n.2
Half a Million Tramps 33: She sang on the streets, but as she had no ‘bottler’ she did not collect as much as she would if someone was helping her.at bottler, n.2
Half a Million Tramps 199: We took what is known as the ‘bottom road’, in other words, we made straight for the south coast, then followed it west.at bottom road (n.) under bottom, n.3
Half a Million Tramps 27: Well, you’ll have a better bed to-night, unless you can prove it wasn’t you who ‘breeched’ that sailor and left him fast asleep in bed.at breech, v.
Half a Million Tramps 245: Forty-eight hours more and we shall be on the ‘briny’.at briny, n.
Half a Million Tramps 317: There are many fights between railway ‘bulls’ and hoboes when the ‘bulls’ try to make arrests for ‘stealing a ride’.at bull, n.5
Half a Million Tramps 228: An innate hatred of tramps on the part of those staff who have been born and bred in ‘Bumbledom’.at bumble, n.1
Half a Million Tramps 231: Another tramp was ‘calling’ a house.at call, v.
Half a Million Tramps 27: Blimey, can’t a respectable lady come in for a cup of ‘char’ without being disturbed by the police?at cha, n.1
Half a Million Tramps 192: We spent two days in Cambridge and collected another pound by ‘chanting’ the streets.at chant, v.
Half a Million Tramps 159: ‘Well, “chanting” is as good a way as any, so we can do a bit of that,’ she decided.at chant, v.
Half a Million Tramps 199: The ‘chanter’ in London hardly ever makes personal contact with his benefactors.at chanter, n.
Half a Million Tramps 187: The boys gave you a chipping this morning.at chipping, n.1
Half a Million Tramps 200: Brighton ‘spike’ is well known for its ‘cock-broth.’ Instead of tea, skilly or cocoa, this spike gave a bowl of soup.at cock-broth (n.) under cock, n.3
Half a Million Tramps 195: If you are not willing to leave when told to, a signal is given and other ‘crows’ come and, if necessary, use physical force.at crow, n.2
Half a Million Tramps 134: Here, take my drum, and this ‘mashing’ [...] He handed me a tin. Inside it was a little screw of paper containing tea and sugar mixed.at drum, n.5
Half a Million Tramps 205: When it was cold we peddled ‘Funkum’. This is the tramps’ name for lavender.at funkum, n.
Half a Million Tramps 192: ‘How did you get this food?’ ‘I just gagged it,’ the tramp replied.at gag, v.
Half a Million Tramps 137: I [...] asked a policeman the way to the spike. ‘You mean the “Grubber,‘ don’t you?’ he answered.at grubber, n.1
Half a Million Tramps 93: A heavy fog was coming on [...] I soon found out that it was only the result of men smoking ‘Hard-up’ and ‘Twist’ [Ibid.] 99: These two men were known as the ‘Hard-up Kings.’ They earned the name because they collected cigarette ends in the streets.at hard-up, n.1
Half a Million Tramps 344: Some were trying to attract the attention of the ‘homos’, while others were pulling their legs, throwing them kisses and calling them girls’ names.at homo, n.2
Half a Million Tramps 196: Most of them I knew as ‘Jake Wallers’: tramps who had given way to the ‘Meth’ craze and were in a perpetual state of stupefaction.at jake, n.3
Half a Million Tramps 325: The ‘Hoboes’ Union’ [...] has waged a fight not only on behalf of the ‘Knights of the Road’, but of all homeless poor persons.at knight of the road, n.
Half a Million Tramps 134: Here, take my drum, and this ‘mashing’ [...] He handed me a tin. Inside it was a little screw of paper containing tea and sugar mixed.at mashing, n.1
Half a Million Tramps 307: Do you know that you are more than two thousand miles away from the ‘Peg’?at Peg, the, n.
Half a Million Tramps 300: ‘You perisher!’ he said.at perisher, n.2
Half a Million Tramps 310: You’ve got a pile in front of you, pal, but you can make it if you stick.at pile, n.1
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