Sinks of London Laid Open: A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, with a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves
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Sinks of London Laid Open: A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, with a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves
Cant; English language -- Slang -- Dictionaries; London (England) -- Description and travel; London (England) -- Social life and customs; Vice
Staller, an accomplice
Stalling ken, broker's shop, or that of a person receiving stolen
goods
Stampers, feet, shoes, stairs
Stark naked, gin
Star-gazers, prostitutes who frequent hedge rows
Stephen, money
Stern, the, the goat, behind, what we sit upon
Stifle a squeaker, to murder a child
Sticks, goods, chattels
Stiffner, a letter
Stick fans, gloves
Sticks, pistols
Stone pitcher, Newgate
Stoop, the pillory
Stow it, drop it, be quiet
Stow your whid, be silent
Stranger, a guinea
Strap, mallet, trust
Strammel, straw
Stretching, hanging
Straw chipper, a straw bonnet maker
Strike, a guinea
Strings of onions, the lower orders of society
String, to, to impose on a person's belief by some joke or lie
Strike me dead, small beer
Strummer faker, hair dresser
Stumps, the feet or legs
Sucked, devilish drunk
Suit of cover me properly, suit of fashionable clothes
Sugar, cock your leg and cry, a way of expressing triumph or joy, by
standing on one leg, and shaking the other up hooting 'sugar' loudly
Sufferer, a sovereign, also a tailor
Swaddy, a lobster, soldier
Swaddler, a pitiful fellow, a methodist preacher who preaches on the
high road, when a number of people are assembled, his accomplices pick
their pockets
Swag, a lot, much
Swallow, the throat
Swankey swipes, table beer
Sweeteners, guinea droppers
Swell out of luck, a decayed fop or dandy
Swinger, one leg and a, a sound leg and a lame one
Swig, liquor of any kind
Swigs men, thieves who travel the country under colour of buying old
clothes
Swindling gloak, a cheat
T.
Tackle, good clothes, also a mistress
Tag rag and bobtail, extremes of low life
Tail, a sword
Tallymen, persons who let out clothes to saloon cyprians
Tamarhoo, a hackney coachman, so called from the song of 'Tamarhoo;
or The Devil and the Hackney Coachman'
Tanner, sixpence
Tape, gin
Tat, rum, good dice
Tatt, queer, bad dice
Tatt men, fellows who get their living by attending the gaming tables
and playing at dice
Tater trap, the mummer, mouth
Tatty tog, a gaming cloth
Tattler, watch or clock
Tea-pot, a negro
Teaser, sixpence
Teazer of catgut, a fiddler
Tears of the tankard, drops of liquor
Teaze, to whip at the cart's tail
That's the ticket, just the thing as it ought to be
That dab's in quod, the rogue's in prison
Thimble, a watch
Three sheets in the wind, three parts drunk
Throw the hatchet, to, to tell a marvellous story, or a lie, and swear
it's true
Thums, three pence
Tie, equal
Tib of the buttery, goose
Tibby, one on your, I owe you one
Ticker, a watch
Tidy, pretty good
Timber, matches
Timber merchant, a match dealer
Time o' day, quite right, the thing
Tinker, sixpence
Tip, money
Tip, to give
Tip your rags a gallop, to bolt, run away
Tip street, to be in, to have plenty of money
Tippy, the, just the thing, as it ought to be
Tip top, the highest, best
Tits, horses
Title-page, the face
Tizzy, sixpence
To nab a kid, to steal a child
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