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Confessions of Convict 157: If cons live out their ‘bit’ and return to the upper world without carrying with them the germs of some fell disease, it is a miracle.at bit, n.1
Confessions of Convict 157: If cons live out their ‘bit’ and return to the upper world without carrying with them the germs of some fell disease, it is a miracle. Confessions of Convict 40: ‘Long-bit’ cons and lifers are, as a rule, perfectly content to die.at long bit (n.) under bit, n.1
Confessions of Convict 30: A cup of ‘boot-leg’ stands on the bracket.at bootleg, n.
Confessions of Convict 145: Mother Mandelbaum, the boss ‘fence’.at boss, adj.
Confessions of Convict 114: Shut off your guff, now, bubbies!at bubby, n.2
Confessions of Convict 53: I took my wife and ‘buds’ to the firemen’s ball.at bud, n.2
Confessions of Convict 141: Jimmy Hope, the famous kid-glove bank-burglar, buncoed!at bunco, v.
Confessions of Convict 35: One evening Cap. sprang his massy lever.at cap, n.1
Confessions of Convict 147: How those big fellows could ‘cham’ and never turn a hair!at cham, v.
Confessions of Convict 29: How I thank Hope for the many social chins we had together!at chin, n.2
Confessions of Convict 29: Hope was a ‘smooth chinner’.at chinner, n.
Confessions of Convict 143: She’s one of the best ‘con-women’ in the world.at con-man, n.
Confessions of Convict 10: Prisoners are known as ‘con’, which is short for convict, and the whole body of prisoners is designated ‘condom’ – short for convictdom.at con, n.1
Confessions of Convict 24: The latter was good-natured and ‘con-ish’ to all his fellow inmates.at conish, adj.
Confessions of Convict 19: He had sojourned for four years for ‘glimming at bank-businesss,’ as the offence is designated by crookology and by municipal-bacteria-fly-cops.at fly cop, n.
Confessions of Convict 258: ‘It’s so dull here, I’m sure to break out.’ ‘And then you’ll go to the “dark”.’.at dark, n.
Confessions of Convict 23: Another star boarder of the ‘Hotel de Hash’ (so called because that particular dish was on the menu just 365 days in the year).at Hotel de Hash, n.
Confessions of Convict 10: Prisoners are known as ‘con’, which is short for convict, and the whole body of prisoners is designated ‘condom’ – short for convictdom.at -dom, sfx
Confessions of Convict 240: Lowest in rank in such a gang is the ‘layer-down,’ whose business it is to present the forged paper.at layer down, n.
Confessions of Convict 233: A simple tool, but very powerful and noiseless in its work, is the ‘drag’.at drag, n.1
Confessions of Convict 206: I went to Frisco at my own expense.at ’Frisco, n.
Confessions of Convict 19: He had sojourned for four years for ‘glimming at bank-business,’ as the offence is designated by crookology and by municipal-bacteria-fly-cops.at glim, v.
Confessions of Convict 43: He put the boodle in his private gopher.at gopher, n.2
Confessions of Convict 213: They railroaded me [,...] because I couldn’t grease the wheels.at grease, v.1
Confessions of Convict 133: Hang me, boy, if that lady didn’t bow.at hang me! (excl.) under hang, v.1
Confessions of Convict 71: Hayseeds – Crooks in general evince a bitter aversion to prisoners from the bucolic districts.at hayseed, n.
Confessions of Convict 70: He used to run a hayseed bank.at hayseed, adj.
Confessions of Convict 145: She was well-heeled.at well-heeled, adj.1
Confessions of Convict 23: With the help of his heeler and aid-de-camp [...] Bray continued to work off most of his grudges.at heeler, n.
Confessions of Convict 208: The sheriff [...] did all he dared to make my sojurn at his ‘hotel’ pleasant.at hotel, n.
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