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[US] Calif. Police Gazette 17 Apr. 1/5: If we had done it then, we would have been all ‘hunk’.
at all hunk, adj.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] Calif. Police Gazette 23 Jan. 2: He was at last ‘copped’ by officer Nickerson.
at cop, v.
[US] 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.
[US] Calif. Police Gazette 27 Mar. 1: [...] nine thieves and burglars ‘coyoted’ out underneath the prison, and vanished to parts unknown.
at coyote, v.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] Calif. Police Gazette 24 Apr. 1/3: ’Ere, ’ere! I say, flare the glim!
at flare, v.
[US] Calif. Police Gazette 27 Mar. 1/7: The writer was one who [...] was ‘hot foot’ after the runaways.
at hot foot, v.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] Calif. Police Gazette 6 Mar. 2/3: Our informants are judges, and we go a heap on their opinion.
at go, v.
[US] 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.
[US] Calif. Police Gazette 16 Jan. 3/3: Morris then revisited his old stamping-ground in this city.
at stamping ground(s), n.1
[US] Calif. Police Gazette 22/3: [headline] Free Fight among the Hookers.
at hooker, n.3
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] Calif. Police Gazette 6 Feb. 2/3: [He] discovered a man who he supposed was the aggressor, and he necked him.
at neck, v.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
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