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The Seven Curses of London choose

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[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 87: To take the works from one watch, and case them in another – churching Jack.
at church a yack, v.
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 77: The genuine alley-bred Arab of the City; the worthy descendant of a tribe that has grown so used to neglect that it regards it as its privilege.
at arab, n.
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 87: Poultry stealing – beak hunting.
at beaker-hunter (n.) under beaker, n.2
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 88: Coiners of bad money – bit-fakers.
at bit faker (n.) under bit, n.1
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 202: You don’t know what a b[itch] like that will say.
at bitch, n.1
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 120: Black Maria is the only one that’s doin’ a trade now. Every journey full as a tuppenny omnibus.
at Black Maria, n.
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 202: If the bloke is in town he could easily be squared.
at bloke, n.
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 23: I’m blowed if she’s all that better as I was kidded to believe she would be.
at I’ll be blowed! (excl.) under blowed, adj.1
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 88: Stealing lead from the roof of houses – flying the blue pigeon.
at fly the blue pigeon (v.) under blue pigeon, n.
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 346: Two or three of his boozing companions [...] took him under their protction.
at boozing, n.
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 87: One who steals from the shopkeeper while pretending to effect an honest purchase – a bouncer.
at bouncer, n.1
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 115: What must it be to listen to the same bold staves out of the mouths of real ‘roaring boys,’ some of them, possibly, the descendants of the very heroes who rode ‘up Holborn Hill in a cart’.
at roaring boy, n.
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 88: Midnight prowlers who rob drunken men – bug hunters.
at bug-hunter, n.2
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 297: The ‘wrens’ take it in turns to do the marketing and keep house while their sisters are abroad ‘on business’.
at business, n.
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 87: To commit burglary – crack a case, or break a drum.
at crack a case (v.) under case, n.3
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 386: It would be amusing to peruse the various styles of address [...] and to mark the many kinds of bait that are used in ‘flat-catching’ as the turf slang has it.
at flat-catching, n.
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 116: The noisy exchange of boisterous ‘chaff’.
at chaff, n.1
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 87: To erase the original name or number from a stolen watch, and substitute one that is fictitious – christening Jack.
at christen, v.
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 89: Whipping while in prison – scroby or claws for breakfast.
at claws for breakfast (n.) under claw, n.
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 91: Ask her what she knows about me, and she’ll tell you that, wuss luck, I’ve got in co. with some bad uns, and she wishes that I hadn’t.
at in co under co, n.3
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 120: Jerry, who had been recently ‘copped’ (taken) and was expected to pass ‘a tail piece in the steel’ (three months in prison).
at copped, adj.
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 407: It is not stealing [...] this tearing fourteen stamps from a sheet at which everybody in the office has access, and which will be replaced without question as soon as it is exhausted. It is at most only ‘cribbing’.
at crib, v.1
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 91: Take a case, now, of a man who is in for getting his living ‘on the cross,’ and who has got a ‘kid’ or two, and their mother, at home.
at on the cross under cross, n.1
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 81: The demolishers came with their picks and crows.
at crow, n.1
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 407: Every morning quite a bulky parcel of crummy-feeling letters are delivered at his residence.
at crummy, adj.2
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 59: The poorer the family, the earlier the boys are turned out, ‘to cut their own grass,’ as the saying is.
at cut one’s own grass (v.) under cut, v.2
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 291: D--- your eyes, let us have some more gin!
at damn (someone’s) eyes! (excl.) under damn, v.
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 203: There is no danger of being brought in for perjury in this case, not a d[amned] bit.
at damned, adj.
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 88: Entering a dwelling house while the family have gone to church – a dead lurk.
at dead lurk, n.
[UK] J. Greenwood Seven Curses of London 414: Yes, sir, it was horse-betting that did my business.
at do, v.1
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