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Arctic Explorer - drug addict
Band - a prostitute
Bust - to enter forcibly, to burgle.
Bury - to sentence to prison
Busy (fellow) - detective
Cake - a prostitute
Can - prison; to imprison
Chromo - a prostitute
Crease - to strike or stun
Crocus - surgeon, doctor
Crowded space - (rhyming slang) suit case
Ditch - to get a person into trouble b) to abandon a person
Fixer - one who arranges or facilitates illicit activities for criminals
Flatty - any ordinary decent citizen
Fly - able to understand and speak cant
Flypaper, be on the - to have one's fingerprints taken, to be a criminal
Fronter - one who conducts an apparently innocent business as a cover behind which lawless persons operate without fear of molestation
Funk - informer
Gander - a look, a glance
Gofor - an easy dupe
Gorilla - brutal, or violent criminal
Hit the grit - to take to the road
Hold Up - to agree
Irons - knukle dusters
Jerry - wide awake, shrewd, well informed, aware
Kinky - to dislike, be suspicious of
Latch on - Understand
Lumber - to impound; to remove something for examination
Moxey - Nerve, courage
Nut, the - the use of one's head as an offensive weapon
Poke - purse, or wallet
Snow - cocaine, morphine, heroin
Spruce - to deceive, to mislead, to tell the tale
Stook - trouble
Toby - road, or city street
Unload - to give information to the Police
Wall-flower - tramp who hangs around a bar in hope of a drink
Weak sister - an untrusted person, or a weakling
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CIRCULAR CRIME
Mystery / ThrillerDetective Inspector Mitch Taylor is investigating a series of murders along with CSI agent Angel Morgan in Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia. Mitch tries to balance his family life, struggling to help his wife to deal with the recent loss of their ba...
