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To Love A Killer - "Index"

A List Of Commonly Used Slang

• Alderman: A man's pot-belly.
• Ameche: Telephone.
• Ankle: (n) Woman; (v) To walk.
• Applesauce: Nonsense.
• Babe: Woman.
• Baby: A person, can be said to either a man or a woman.
• Baloney: Nonsense, something not to be believed.
• Be on the nut: To be broke.
• Bean-shooter: Gun.
• Beef: Problem.
• Bee's knees: An extraordinary person, thing, or idea.
• Beezer: Nose.
• Behind the eight ball: In a difficult position, in a tight spot.
• Bent cars: Stolen cars.
• Berries: Anything wonderful; similar to bee's knees.
• Big cheese, Big shot: The boss - someone of importance and influence.
• Big house: Jail.
• Big one: Death.
• Big sleep: Death.
• Bim: Woman.
• Bing: Jailhouse talk for solitary confinement.
• Bit: Prison sentence.
• Blip off: To kill.
• Blow: Leave.
• Blow one down: Kill someone.
• Blower: Telephone.
• Bluenose: A prude.
• Bo: Pal, buster, fellow.
• Boiler: Car.
• Bop: To kill.
• Box: A safe or a bar.
• Box job: A safecracking.
• Brace (somebody): Grab, shake up.
• Bracelets: Handcuffs.
• Breeze: To leave, breeze off; get lost.
• Broad: Woman.
• Bruno: Tough guy, enforcer.
• Bucket: Car.
• Bulge: The advantage.
• Bull session: An informal group chat or discussion.
• Bulls: Plainclothes railroad cops; uniformed police; prison guards.
• Bum's rush/to get the: To be kicked out.
• Bump: Kill.
• Bump gums: To talk about nothing worthwhile.
• Bump off: Kill; also, bump-off; a killing.
• Bunk: Nonsense.
• Burn powder: Fire a gun.
• Bus: Big car.
• Butter and egg man: The money man, the man with the bankroll, a yokel who comes to town to blow a big wad in nightclubs.
• Button: Face, nose, end of jaw.
• Buttons: Police.
• Butts: Cigarettes.
• Buzz: Looks person up, comes to person's door.
• Buzzer: Policeman's badge.
• Cabbage: Money.
• Caboose: Jail.
• Cake-eater: A ladies' man.
• Call copper: Inform the police.
• Can: Jail, car.
• Can house: Bordello.
• Can-opener: Safecracker who opens cheap safes.
• Canary: Woman singer.
• Cancelled stamp: A shy, lonely female, the type one would describe as a "wallflower".
• Carry a torch: Suffering from unrequited love.
• Case dough: Nest egg.
• Cash or check: Kiss now or later?
• Cat: Man.
• Cat's meow: Something splendid or stylish.
• Cat's pajamas: Term of endearment, as in "I think you are really really cool."
• Century: $100.
• Cheaters: Sunglasses.
• Cheese it: Put things away, hide.
• Chew: Eat.
• Chicago lightning: Gunfire.
• Chicago overcoat: Coffin.
• Chick: Woman.
• Chilled off: Killed.
• Chin: Conversation; chinning, talking.
• Chin music: Punch on the jaw.
• Chippy: Woman of easy virtue.
• Chisel: To swindle or cheat.
• Chiv: Knife, "a stabbing or cutting weapon."
• Choice bit of calico: A desirable woman.
• Chopper squad: Men with machine guns.
• Chump: Person marked for a con or a gullible person.
• Clammed: Close-mouthed (clammed up).
• Clean sneak: An escape with no clues left behind.
• Clip joint: In some cases, a nightclub where the prices are high and the patrons are fleeced.
• Clipped: Shot.
• Close your head: Shut up.
• Clout: Shoplifter.
• Clubhouse: Police station.
• Con: Confidence game, swindle.
• Conk: Head.
• Cool: To knock out.
• Cooler: Jail.
• Copacetic: All good, as it should be.
• Copped/ to be: Grabbed by the cops.
• Copper: Policeman.
• Corn: Bourbon ("corn liquor").
• Crab: Figure out.
• Crate: Car.
• Croak: To kill.
• Croaker: Doctor.
• Crush: An infatuation.
• Crushed out: Escaped (from jail).
• Cut down: Killed.
• Daisy: None too masculine.
• Dame: Woman.
• Dance: To be hanged.
• Dangle: Leave, get lost.
• Darb: An excellent person or thing.
• Daylight (as in "fill him with daylight"): Put a hole in, by shooting or stabbing.
• Deck (as in "deck of Luckies"): Pack of cigarettes.
• Derrick: Shoplifter.
• Dib: Share of the proceeds.
• Dick: Detective, usually qualified with "private" if not a policeman.
• Dingus: Thing.
• Dip: Pickpocket.
• Dip the bill: Have a drink.
• Dish: Pretty woman.
• Dive: A low-down, cheap sort of place.
• Dizzy with a dame/to be: To be deeply in love with a woman.
• Do the dance: To be hanged.
• Dogs: Feet.
• Dope fiend: Drug addict.
• Dope peddler: Drug dealer.
• Dough: Money.
• Drift: Go, leave.
• Drill: Shoot.
• Drop a dime: Make a phone call, sometimes meaning to the police to inform on someone.
• Droppers: Hired killers.
• Drugstore cowboy: A fashionably dressed loiterer who hands around public places trying to pick up girls.
• Drum: Speakeasy.
• Dry-gulch: Knock out, hit on the head after ambushing.
• Duck soup: Easy, a piece of cake.
• Dumb Dora: A silly or stupid girl.
• Dummerer: Someone who pretends to be deaf and/or dumb to appear a more deserving beggar.
• Dump: Roadhouse, club; or more generally, any place.
• Dust out: Leave, depart.
• Egg: Man.
• Electric cure: Electrocution.
• Elephant ears: Police.
• Fade: Go away, get lost.
• Fakeloo artist: Con man.
• Fella: A man.
• Fin: $5 bill.
• Finder: Finger man.
• Finger/put the finger on: Identify.
• Flaming youth: Male counterpart to a flapper.
• Flapper: A stylish, brash young woman with short skirts and shorter hair.
• Flat Tire: A dull-witted or disappointing date.
• Flattie: Flatfoot, cop.
• Flimflam: Swindle.
• Flippers: Hands.
• Flivver: A Ford automobile.
• Flogger: Overcoat.
• Flop: Go to bed or fallen through, not worked out.
• Flophouse: A cheap transient hotel where a lot of men sleep in large rooms.
• Fog: To shoot.
• Frail: Woman.
• Frau: Wife.
• Fry: To be electrocuted.
• Fuzz: Police.
• Gal: Woman.
• Gams: A woman's legs.
• Gasper: Cigarette.
• Gat: Gun.
• Get sore: Get mad.
• Getaway sticks: Legs.
• Giggle juice: Liquor.
• Giggle water: Liquor.
• Gin mill: Bar.
• Glad rags: Fancy clothes.
• Glaum: Steal.
• Goofy: Crazy.
• Goog: Black eye.
• Goon: Thug.
• Gooseberry lay: Stealing clothes from a clothesline.
• Gowed-up: On dope, high.
• Grab (a little) air: Put your hands up.
• Graft: Con jobs or cut of the take.
• Grand: $1000.
• Grift: Confidence game, swindle.
• Grifter: Con man.
• Grilled: Questioned.
• Gumshoe: Detective.
• Gumshoeing: Detective work.
• Gun for: Look for, be after,
• Guns: Pickpockets, hoodlums.
• Guy: A man.
• Hack: Taxi.
• Handcuff: Engagement ring.
• Half: 50 cents.
• Hard: Tough.
• Hard-boiled: Tough; without feeling or sentiment.
• Harlem sunset: Some sort of fatal injury caused by a knife.
• Hash house: A cheap restaurant.
• Hatchet men: Killers, gunmen.
• Head doctors: Psychiatrists.
• Heap: Car.
• Heat: Police.
• Heater: Gun.
• Heebie-jeebies: The jitters.
• Heeled: Carrying a gun.
• Hep: Wise.
• High-hat: To snub.
• High pillow: Person at the top, in charge.
• Highbinders: Corrupt politician or functionary.
• Hinky: Suspicious.
• Hitting the pipe: Smoking opium.
• Hitting on all eight: In good shape, going well.
• Hock shop: Pawnshop.
• Hogs: Engines.
• Hokum: Nonsense; something not to be believed.
• Hooch: Liquor.
• Hood: Criminal.
• Hoofer: Dancer.
• Hoosegow: Jail.
• Horn: Telephone.
• Horsefeathers: Nonsense; something not to be believed.
• Hot: Stolen.
• Hotsy-totsy: Pleasing.
• House dick: House/hotel detective.
• Ice: Diamonds.
• Ice one's shoelaces: To excuse oneself for the restroom.
• Ing-bing (as in to throw an): A fit.
• Iron: A car.
• Jack: Money.
• Jalopy: An old car.
• Jam: Trouble, a tight spot.
• Jane: A woman.
• Java: Coffee.
• Jaw: Talk.
• Jerking a nod: Nodding.
• Jingle-brained: Addled.
• Jobbie: Man.
• Joe: Coffee, as in "a cup of joe."
• Johns: Police.
• Johnson brother: Criminal.
• Joint: Place, as in "my joint."
• Juice: Interest on a loanshark's loan.
• Jug: Jail.
• Jump (the): A hanging.
• Kale: Money.
• Keen: Attractive or appealing.
• Kick off: Die.
• Kiss: To punch.
• Kisser: Mouth.
• Kitten: Woman.
• Knock off: Kill.
• Know your onions: To know what's up or what's going on.
• Lammed off: Ran away, escaped.
• Large: $1,000; twenty large would be $20,000.
• Law (the): The police.
• Lead ("fill ya full of lead"): The term used for bullets.
• Lead poisoning: To be shot.
• Lettuce: Folding money.
• Lid: Hat.
• Line: Insincere flattery.
• Looker: Pretty woman.
• Look-out: Outside man.
• Lounge lizard: A ladies' man.
• Lousy with: To have lots of.
• Mac: A man.
• Made: Recognized.
• Main drag: The most important street in a town or city.
• Map: Face.
• Marbles: Pearls.
• Mark: Sucker; victim of swindle or fixed game.
• Maroon: Person marked for a con or a gullible person.
• Meat wagon: Ambulance.
• Mickey Finn: A drink drugged with knock-out drops.
• Mill: Typewriter.
• Mitt: Hand.
• Mob: Gang (not necessarily Mafia).
• Moll: Girlfriend.
• Mouthpiece: Lawyer.
• Mugs: Men (especially refers to dumb ones).
• Nailed: Caught by the police.
• Neck: To snuggle, kiss, or caress intimately.
• Nevada gas: Cyanide.
• Newshawk: Reporter.
• Newsie: Newspaper vendor.
• Nibble one: To have a drink.
• Nicked: Stole.
• Nippers: Handcuffs.
• Noodle: Head.
• "Now you're on the trolley!": "Now you've got it right!"
• Number: A person.
• Off the track: Said about a person who becomes insanely violent.
• Oliver Twist: An extremely good dancer.
• Op: Detective.
• Orphan paper: Bad checks.
• Out on the roof: To drink a lot, to be drunk.
• Oyster fruit: Pearls.
• Packing heat: Carrying a gun.
• Pal: A man.
• Palooka: Man, probably not very smart.
• Pan: Face.
• Paste: Punch.
• Patsy: Person who is set up; fool, chump.
• Paw: Hand.
• Peaching: Informing.
• Peeper: Detective.
• Peepers: Eyes.
• Pen: Penitentiary, jail.
• Peterman: Safecracker who uses nitroglycerin.
• Petting Pantry: A cinema or movie theater.
• Piece: Gun.
• Pigeon: Stool-pigeon.
• Pinch: An arrest, capture.
• Pins: Legs.
• Pipe: See or notice.
• Pipes: Throat.
• Plant: Someone on the scene but in hiding, bury.
• Plug: Shoot.
• Plugs: People.
• Poke: Bankroll, stake.
• Pop: Kill.
• Pro skirt: Prostitute.
• Puffing: Mugging.
• Pug: Pugilist, boxer.
• Pump: Heart.
• Pump metal: Shoot bullets.
• Punk: Hood, jerk.
• Pushover: A person easily convinced of something.
• Puss: Face.
• Put down: Drink.
• Put the screws on: Question, get tough with.
• Quiff: A slut.
• Rags: Clothes.
• Ranked: Observed, watched, given the once-over.
• Rap: Criminal charge.
• Rappers: Fakes, set-ups.
• Rat: Inform.
• Rate: To be good, to count for something.
• Rats and mice: Dice, i.e. craps.
• Rattler: Train.
• Red-light: To eject from a car or a train.
• Redhot: Some sort of criminal.
• Reefers: Marijuana cigarettes.
• Rhino: Money.
• Right: Adjective indicating quality.
• Ringers: Fakes.
• Ritzy: Elegant.
• Rod: Gun.
• Roscoe: Gun.
• Rub-out: A killing.
• Rube: Bumpkin, easy mark.
• Rumble (the): The news.
• Sap: A dumb guy.
• Sap poison: Getting hit with a sap.
• Savvy: "Get me? Understand?"
• Sawbuck: $10 bill (a double sawbuck is a $20 bill).
• Schnozzle: Nose.
• Scram out: Leave.
• Scratch: Money.
• Scratcher: Forger.
• Screwy: Crazy; eccentric.
• Send over: Send to jail.

• Shamus: (Private) detective.
• Sharper: A swindler or sneaky person.
• Sheba: A woman with sex appeal.
• Sheik: A man with sex appeal.
• Shells: Bullets.
• Shiv: Knife.
• Shylock: Loanshark.
• Sing: Make a confession.

• Sitting pretty: In a great position.
• Skate around: To be of easy virtue.
• Skid rogue: A bum who can't be trusted.
• Skirt: Woman.
• Sleuth: Detective.
• Slug: A bullet or to knock unconscious.
• Smoked: Drunk.
• Snap a cap: Shout.
• Snatch: Kidnap.
• Sneeze: Take.
• Snitch: An informer, or to inform.
• Snooper: Detective.

• Snuggle pup: Sweetheart who likes to snuggle.
• Speakeasy: An illicit bar selling bootleg liquor.
• Spiffy: Looking elegant.
• Soak: To pawn.
• Sock: Punch.
• Sockdollager: an event or action of great importance
• Soup: Nitroglycerine.
• Soup job: To crack a safe using nitroglycerine.
• Spifflicated: Inebriated.
• Spill: Talk, inform.
• Spinach: Money.
• Spitting: Talking.
• Square: Honest.
• Squeeze: A female companion or a girlfriend.
• Squirt metal: Shoot bullets.
• Step off: To be hanged.
• Stiff: A corpse.
• Sting: Culmination of a con game.
• Stool-pigeon: Informer.
• Stoolie: Stool-pigeon.
• Stuck on: Having a crush on.
• Sucker: Someone ripe for a grifter's scam.
• Sugar: Money.
• Swanky: Ritzy.
• Swell: Wonderful.
• Tail: Shadow or follow.
• Take for a ride: Drive off with someone in order to bump them off.
• Take the air: Leave.
• Take the fall for: Accept punishment for.
• "Tell it to Sweeney!": What you say when you believe something to be untrue; "Tell it to someone who would buy that!"
• That's the crop: That's all of it.
• Throw lead: Shoot bullets.
• Tighten the screws: Put pressure on somebody.
• Tin: Badge.
• Tip a few: To have a few drinks.
• Tomato: Pretty woman.
• Tooting the wrong ringer: Asking the wrong person.
• Torpedoes: Gunmen.
• Trap: Mouth.
• Trigger man: Man whose job is to use a gun.
• Trouble boys: Gangsters.
• Twist: Woman.
• Under glass: In jail.
• Weak sister: A push-over.
• Wear iron: Carry a gun.
• Whoopee: Boisterous, convivial fun, sometimes referring to fun had with a romantic partner.
• Wise head: A smart person.
• Worker (as in "She sizes up as a worker"): A woman who takes a guy for his money.
• Wrong number: Not a good fellow.
• Ya follow: "Do you understand?"
• Yap: Mouth.
• Yegg: Safecracker who can only open cheap and easy safes.
• Zotzed: Killed.