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Crooks of the Und. 70: Poor boobs. No wonder they are termed ‘in-and-out boys!’.at in-and-out boy, n.
Crooks of the Und. 70: Poor boobs. No wonder they are termed ‘in-and-out boys!’. Crooks of the Und. 45: He must have been one of the ‘barmies’ [...] A weird person altogether.at barmy, n.
Crooks of the Und. 124: He, I think, was the greatest exponent of the art of ‘tap’ and ‘bite’. [Ibid.] 125: The distinction between the two verbs – to tap and to bite – is this: Whereas a person ‘tapped’ must part with his dough generously and freely [...] the victim of the ‘bite’ had no intention of parting with any of his superfluous cash.at bite, n.1
Crooks of the Und. 125: The distinction between the two verbs – to tap and to bite – is this: Whereas a person ‘tapped’ must part with his dough generously and freely [...] the victim of the ‘bite’ had no intention of parting with any of his superfluous cash.at bite, v.
Crooks of the Und. 128: A ‘break’ is any building where one can enter by one door and leave by another without being in direct view of a person standing in the door of entry. [Ibid.] 206: These double-exit premises are known to grafters as ‘breaks,’ or ‘threwers,’ and are used by them for the purpose of ‘shaking off a tail’.at break, n.2
(con. 1910) Crooks of the Und. 223: I bunged Bill a new tool and hopped it.at bung, v.1
Crooks of the Und. 241: He prevailed upon me to ‘bunk him up’ upon the wall.at bunk up, v.1
Crooks of the Und. 160: In short I had ‘rung the changes’ upon him when selling him a diamond ring worth thirty pounds for fifteen.at ring the changes, v.
Crooks of the Und. 69: A ‘grass’ is the term for ‘copper’s nark’ in the underworld to-day.at copper’s nark (n.) under copper, n.
Crooks of the Und. 207: The great firms of assessors are often quite aware that they are being defrauded upon a gigantic scale, but ‘cough up’ and say nothing.at cough up, v.
Crooks of the Und. 172: I obtained respectable diggings.at diggings, n.
(con. 1910) Crooks of the Und. 223: Why, ’e’s the one wot’s been making ’em all the time while me an’ my poor ole man ’as been putting ’em dahn.at put down, v.1
Crooks of the Und. 35: I pulled the outside note from the roll, which was a flash fiver.at flash, adj.
Crooks of the Und. 69: A ‘grass’ is the term for ‘copper’s nark’ in the underworld to-day.at grass, n.3
Crooks of the Und. 203: ‘Hoisters,’ or shoplifters who prey upon jewellers’ shops [...] invariably dispose of their stuff through the medium of a small buyer.at hoister, n.
Crooks of the Und. 205: They are detained by a suspicious pawnbroker whilst a policeman is sent for, after requesting a loan upon an article which the pawnbroker has recognised as being included in his police list of stolen property – known in the underworld as the ‘Huey,’ probably owning to the fact that the list was originally published under the title of the ‘Hue and Cry’.at huey, n.2
Crooks of the Und. 150: I mentally resolved that if ever I did feel that the spirit moved me to ‘turn it up,’ I would never encourage it to take effect.at turn it up, v.1
Crooks of the Und. 70: Don’t the Johns (C.I.D.) get around there?at john, n.1
Crooks of the Und. 84: You can imagine the amount of S.P. money he takes every day [...] he’s got a lot of punters who have ten pounds a race.at S.P. joint, n.
(con. 1910) Crooks of the Und. 222: Come on, Tom. Put that lot in yer kick.at kick, n.4
Crooks of the Und. 138: By ‘barber,’ I do not mean a knight of the razor.at knight of the..., n.
Crooks of the Und. 68: One wide-awake punter [...] realised I was knocking, he gave the alarm.at knock, v.
Crooks of the Und. 33: I felt a trifle ‘windy’ when I produced the roll of ‘lills’. [Ibid.] 127: Here he would wave his hundred-pound note (invariably a ‘lill’ – a bank of Engraving note).at lil, n.
Crooks of the Und. 226: To ‘mace’ or ‘jim,’ according to them, is to travel by train without paying fare.at mace, v.
Crooks of the Und. 133: The penalty for being ‘nailed’ (arrested) is a mere flea-bite to that of the heavy grafter.at nail, v.
Crooks of the Und. 138: His ‘open sesame’ is a small tool called a pair of nips.at nip, n.1
Crooks of the Und. 216: My companion was the first to be ‘turned over.’.at turn over, v.1
Crooks of the Und. 126: G--- would be ‘piping him off’ from some unobserved point of vantage.at pipe off (v.) under pipe, v.3
(con. 1910) Crooks of the Und. 221: Bill, I can’t come aht and pitch (change counterfeit) for yer this afternoon. I’ve got the rottenest ’eadache.at pitch, v.
Crooks of the Und. 180: I strongly suspect my friend Jollyfold of having ‘put the poison in’ for me whilst I had been cleaning his Tams.at put in the poison (v.) under poison, n.
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