1859 Calif. Police Gazette 17 Apr. 1/5: If we had done it then, we would have been all ‘hunk’.at all hunk, adj.
1859 Calif. Police Gazette 27 Mar. 2/4: The number of bummers is rapidly increasing. Some paper [...] talks of a bummer’s rendezvous near the waterworks building.at bummer, n.3
1859 Calif. Police Gazette 30 Jan. 2/3: In the first portion of the day the black horse was the favorite, [...] and any quantity of ‘cart wheels’ made their appearance.at cartwheel, n.1
1859 Calif. Police Gazette 17 Apr. 1/2: ‘I’ll see you d---d first before I “pitch” any more, unless you “cheese” your “gabs.”’.at cheese, v.1
1859 Calif. Police Gazette 20 Mar. 2/1: Mr. Miller [i.e a saloon keeper] ‘corrals’ the passing crowd and they go away well satisfied.at corral, v.
1859 Calif. Police Gazette 27 Mar. 1: [...] nine thieves and burglars ‘coyoted’ out underneath the prison, and vanished to parts unknown.at coyote, v.
1859 Calif. Police Gazette 6 Mar. n.p.: [A house] is the resort of all the low prostitutes who cruise around the Park and its neighborhood.at cruise, v.
1859 Calif. Police Gazette 27 Mar. 2/7: Upon arriving here, and wishing to see the ‘sights,’ he [...] cruised around on ‘general principles’ until he brought up somewhere near Stockton Street.at cruise, v.
1859 Calif. Police Gazette 6 Mar. n.p.: [A house] is the resort of all the low prostitutes who cruise around the Park and its neighborhood.at cruise, v.
1859 Calif. Police Gazette 27 Mar. 1/7: The writer and another for several night had watched this ‘cuddy,’ as it was nothing else.at cuddy, n.2
1859 Calif. Police Gazette 23 Jan. 2/4: Mary Barrett [a whore] . . . is not content with driving her illegitimate trade, but must needs ‘go down’ occasionally on her ‘lovers.’ Last week while a drunken fool was engaged in surveying three dollars worth of beauty, she ‘went down’ and got his pocket-book containing about forty dollars.at go down, v.
1859 Calif. Police Gazette 30 Jan. 2/4: One night last week she ‘dressed’ two men, one to the amount of ten dollars, the other seventeen.at dress, v.
1859 Calif. Police Gazette 27 Mar. 1/7: We were witness to the whole, and had they known the fact, they would have taken more care to dry the matter up.at dry up, v.
1859 Calif. Police Gazette 23 Jan. 2/3: Once more at liberty, he renewed his former habits, consisting of ‘cly faking,’ ‘going through lushes,’ and not staying in one place more than eight days, to avoid prosecution for ‘vagrancy’.at fake a cly (v.) under fake, v.1
1859 Calif. Police Gazette 10 Apr. 1/5: If, however, the person arrived, happened to have been [in prison] before, the signal was changed to ‘stale fish’.at stale fish, n.
1859 Calif. Police Gazette 27 Mar. 1/7: The writer was one who [...] was ‘hot foot’ after the runaways.at hot foot, v.
1859 Calif. Police Gazette 10 Apr. 1/4: If a new prisoner arrived at night he was put into the room [...] and the instant he entered, his arrival would be signalized by the words ‘fresh fish’.at fresh fish (n.) under fresh, adj.2
1859 Calif. Police Gazette 17 Apr. 1/2: I’ll see you d---d first before I ‘pitch’ any more, unless you ‘cheese’ your ‘gabs’.at stow one’s gab (v.) under gab, n.2
1859 Calif. Police Gazette 6 Mar. 2/3: Our informants are judges, and we go a heap on their opinion.at go, v.
1859 Calif. Police Gazette 23 Jan. 2/3: Once more at liberty, he renewed his former habits, consisting of ‘cly faking,’ ‘going through lushes,’ and not staying in one place more than eight days, to avoid prosecution for ‘vagrancy.’.at go through, v.
1859 Calif. Police Gazette 16 Jan. 3/3: Morris then revisited his old stamping-ground in this city.at stamping ground(s), n.1
1859 Calif. Police Gazette 10 Apr. 4/4: ‘Well, Harry, [...] its been running in my mind that you’re on it.’ ‘On what?’ ‘Oh, on some “lay” or other.’.at on it, phr.1
1859 Calif. Police Gazette 16 Jan. 3/2: We are of the opinion that there was some hocus pocus in the case, but we did not see where the ‘little joker’ was, at least not closely enough to swear to it.at little joker (n.) under little, adj.
1859 Calif. Police Gazette 23 Jan. 2/3: Once more at liberty, he renewed his former habits, consisting of ‘cly faking,’ ‘going through lushes,’ and not staying in one place more than eight days, to avoid prosecution for ‘vagrancy.’.at lush, n.1
1859 Calif. Police Gazette 6 Feb. 2/3: [He] discovered a man who he supposed was the aggressor, and he necked him.at neck, v.
1859 Calif. Police Gazette 10 Apr. 2/3: This would have been a nice thing for the ‘night hawks’ had they discovered him before the officer took him in custody.at nighthawk, n.
1859 Calif. Police Gazette 17 Apr. 1/2: I’ll see you d---d first before I ‘pitch’ any more, unless you ‘cheese’ your ‘gabs’.at pitch, v.