1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose III 199: You got your dose of bread and water as sure as eggs next day.at sure as hogs are made of bacon under sure as..., phr.
1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose III 218: Don’t be a blamed fool—what chance have you got? The screws is all round and in them togs too, you’ll never get far. Wot are you bidding for a bashing for?at bashing, n.
1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose III 45: Say I have been copped, that I am going back to the ‘boat’ (penal servitude), and that I shall be away about three years.at boat, n.1
1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose III 208: You’ll have to chum with Devas here now that Dellew’s gone.at chum, v.
1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose III 199: A real darkey-driver, had to do with niggers somewhere, and he kept us at it [...] till we hadn’t an ounce of flesh left amongst the lot of us.at darkie, adj.
1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose III 199: A real darkey-driver, had to do with niggers somewhere, and he kept us at it [...] till we hadn’t an ounce of flesh left amongst the lot of us. [Ibid.] 218: Keep your eye on the nigger-driver—tell me if you see him nod.at nigger-driver, n.
1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose III 222: By George! I’ll risk it.at by George! (excl.) under George, n.2
1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose III 217: It will depend on whether I can elude his eye for long enough the first go-off.at go-off, n.
1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose (1900) II 301: ‘You cheated me on the train! You thought I was a greenhorn!’ ‘And we find you a Greek — a regular leg.’.at Greek, n.
1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose III 82: It was a friend of his, who was half-seas over.at half seas over, adj.
1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose III 158: It’s most vexatious [...] and it puts me in a frightful hole.at hole, n.1
1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose III 209: Of the fifteen hundred odd visitors to this hotel there ain’t one, I’ll bet you, who’s been fairly sentenced.at hotel, n.
1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose I 93: Waldo’s is the bank that’s robbed, and Mr. Surtees is the thief. But I can’t run him in.at run in, v.
1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose III 158: ‘And where is Leon then?’ ‘Back in the stone jug, I expect.’.at stone jug, n.1
1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose III 225: Which way, now, I wonder! Not that; it leads back to the ‘jug’, I know.at jug, n.1
1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose (1900) II 301: ‘You cheated me on the train! You thought I was a greenhorn!’ ‘And we find you a Greek — a regular leg.’.at leg, n.
1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose III 146: Look slippy! the cab’s here.at look slippy! (excl.) under look, v.
1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose III 208: None of your lazy lubbering tricks. D’ye hear, you Surtees—.at lubbering, adj.
1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose III 140: Joe Magsman was that evil-looking individual whom Leon had accosted.at magsman, n.
1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose II 276: Madame Jobard is to send here as soon as they are nicked?at nicked, adj.1
1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose III 9: He could not but be aware that cards had been introduced after supper. The pigeoning had commenced.at pigeon, v.1
1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose III 258: ‘Who is in Queer Street?’ asked Horace Wingspur, coming in; ‘I shall be if the governor don’t stump up soon.’.at in Queer Street under Queer Street, n.
1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose I 73: I’m rather ‘on the scoop’ to-day. We’ve been having such a bit of fun.at on the scoop (adj.) under scoop, n.
1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose III 26: What’s your screw at Walso’s? Three or four hundred a year?at screw, n.1
1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose III 199: I’d change places with you for less that that, if we could swindle the screws.at screw, n.1
1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose III 142: You had better be on the box of the ‘shoful’, and, when he comes to you, drive off.at shoful, n.
1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose III 177: If everyone went on as Lord Wingspur does we should soon have to shut up shop. [...] money is very tight and hard to get.at shut up (one’s) shop (v.) under shop, n.1
1885 A. Griffiths Fast and Loose III 212: If I am caught, it’ll mean a ‘bashing’ and the ‘slangs’.at slang, n.2