PETER: a safe thief. "Knock-out drops" are also "peter." PHILLIE: Philadelphia. PLUG: a fellow; synonymous with "bloke" and "stiff." POKE-OUT: a lunch; synonymous with "hand-out." POUND THE EAR: to sleep. PRUSHUN: a tramp boy. An "ex-prushun" is one who has served his apprenticeship as a "kid" and is "looking for revenge," _i. e._, for a lad that he can "snare" and "jocker," as he himself was "snared" and "jockered." PUNK AND PLASTER: bread and butter. PUSH: a gang. Q.: the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, popularly known as the C. B. & Q. QUEER, THE: counterfeit money. REPEATER, or REVOLVER: an old-timer; a professional criminal and a "blowed-in-the-glass" tramp. RINGER: a bell. RUBE: a "hoosier," or "farmer." SAPS: a clubbing with weapons made from saplings; synonymous with "timber." (See below.) SCOFF: _noun_, food, "nourishment"; _verb_, to "feed," to "gorge." SCRAPPER: a victim of either tramps or criminals who "puts up a fight." SCREW: a prison turnkey. SET-DOWN: a square meal. SETTLED: in prison. SHACK: a brakeman. SHATIN' ON ME UPPERS: to be "shatin'" on one's "uppers" is to be "dead broke." SHOVE: a gang. SHOVER: a man who passes counterfeit money. SIDE-DOOR PULLMAN: a box-car. SINKER: a dollar; synonymous with "ball." SLOPE: to run away. SLOPPING-UP: a big drunk. SNARE: to entice a boy into tramp life. SNEAKS: flat or house thieves. A bank sneak is a bank thief. SNIPE: cigar-butts--the favorite tobacco among hoboes. SONG AND DANCE: a begging story or trick. SPARK: a diamond. SPIEL: something to peddle. Hoboes often carry needles, pins, court-plaster, and the like. On meeting one another, they ask: "What's your spiel?" ("What are you hawking?") (See "graft.") SPIKED: upset, chagrined, disappointed, disgusted. SQUEALER: one who gives away the gang. STAKE-MAN: a fellow who holds a position only long enough to get a "stake"--enough money to keep him in "booze" and tobacco while he is on the road. The tramps call him a "gay-cat." STALL: the pickpocket's companion. STIFF: a fellow; synonymous with "bloke" and "plug." SUCKER: a victim of both tramps and criminals. THROW THE FEET: to beg, "hustle," or do anything that involves much action. TIMBER: a clubbing at the hands of the toughs of a town unfriendly to tramps. (See "Saps.") TOMATO-CAN VAG: the outcast of Hoboland; a tramp of the lowest order, who drains the dregs of a beer-barrel into an empty tomato-can and drinks them; he generally lives on the refuse that he finds in scavenger barrels. TOOT THE RINGER: ring the bell. TURF: the road, or low life in general.