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London Guide 115: If the lady has not got clothes of her own, she can find them (on hire) at the upper class of bad houses, [...] deriving, from this source, no small part of their profits.at bad-house (n.) under bad, adj.
London Guide 115: If the lady has not got clothes of her own, she can find them (on hire) at the upper class of bad houses, [...] deriving, from this source, no small part of their profits. London Guide 12: If a hackney coachman be a smasher, or dealer in bad silver, he endeavors to set down his fares (by night) in a dark place] .at bad paper (n.) under bad, adj.
London Guide 98: Ladies’ clothes used to be barked pretty much [...] in the neighbourhood of Leicster Square.at bark, v.2
London Guide 98: barkers are of Moorfields origin, where they press you to buy household-goods and furniture; as they do clothes in Rosemary Lane, Seven Dials, [...] and Houndsditch.at barker, n.1
London Guide 66: ‘tis all up, the bird (pigeon) has flown. The blo—y b—r B—d had taken his place.at bird, n.1
London Guide 74: He is sometimes brought in indebted to the Crimp [...] by what is called a long-shore attorney, or more appropriately, a black shark, and thrown into jail!!!at black shark (n.) under black, adj.
London Guide 61: They [i.e. cheating casinos] were antecedently known only to a few (the chosen few) black legs.at blackleg, n.1
London Guide 77: He bleeds the least sum of money probable for the occasion.at bleed, v.1
London Guide 77: The perpetrators have twice double objects in view, viz. the commision of crime, the detection, the death of the culprit, and the payment for their villainy. Of these we shall hereafter speak, under their [...] most appropriate title of Blood hounds.at bloodhound (n.) under blood, n.1
London Guide 60: Lately, a general blow-up has taken place of nearly all the do’s at the West end of the town.at blow-up, n.1
London Guide 51: A glum old fellow, who did not relish the wordy contest as the smell of the blue mark (as they call a bowl of punch).at blue mark (n.) under blue, adj.1
London Guide 169: At the top of Bishopsgate Street and Norton Falgate, six or seven thieves were making a bubbery, as they always do thereabouts on Saturday and Sunday evenings.at bobbery, n.
London Guide 42: But mark this: provided you make good use of your lungs, and also make a decent stir before you get touched with hand or stick, I’ll pound them to bolt in a jiffy.at bolt, v.
London Guide 33: A more daring hustle is, where a person being run against violently, as if by accident, and his arms kept down forcibly, while the accomplice [...] draws either his watch, money or book .at book, n.
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London Guide 169: At the top of Bishopsgate Street [...] six or seven thieves were making a bubbery, as they always do thereabouts.at bubbery, n.
London Guide 2: Fellows who hang about in inn yards [...] selling and buying some article [are] called ‘Duffors or Buffors’.at buffer, n.1
London Guide 91: Buffers [...] are invariably north-country-men. Jordaine was a Glasgow man and made ten thousand pounds [...] but never buffed it in the streets of London.at buffer, n.1
London Guide 66: The bird (pigeon) has flown. The blo—y b—r B—d had taken his place.at bugger, n.1
London Guide 126: In the house of ill-fame [...] you get kicked and abused by the bully, who is always in attendance and understands the use of his fists.at bully, n.1
London Guide 5: Those idle fellows who constantly hang about coach yards without any visible means of livelihood than what they can pick up [...] are said to be ‘upon the kedge’.at on the (grand) cadge under cadge, the, n.
London Guide 226: This, although a lie, puzzled his cannister.at canister, n.1
London Guide 79: The accomplice pretends to take part and carney with them.at carney, v.
London Guide 205: The thoroughbred sycophant may be known by his carney, or small talk, or by his whining.at carney, n.1
London Guide 2: When two sharpers [...] pursuing the same game, meet [...] ‘What are you after,’ demands one. ‘Catching of flats,’ isd the reply.at catch, v.1
London Guide 13: If you appear tolerably ‘soft,’ and will ‘stand it,’ he perhaps refuses these [coins] also, after having ‘rung the changes’ once more.at ring the changes, v.
London Guide 107: A few go about who are false porters [...] who contrive to talk or toss up for gin, with real ones, and meanwhile ‘ring the changes’ by walking off with their loads.at ring the changes, v.
London Guide viii: Some of us have had communications with Conkey Beau [and] Hoppy Cole.at conky, n.
London Guide 226: I knew he was sweet, not to say nutty, upon the covess.at covess, n.
London Guide 221: A clergyman (of the thump craw kidney) was F.R.S. (i.e. Fellow Remarkably Sharp;).at craw-thumper, n.
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