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Flogger
Overcoat (Op, 219)
Flop
1. Go to bed (Speaking, 87)
2. As in "The racket's flopped" - fallen through, not worked out (Op, 268)
Flophouse
"A cheap transient hotel where a lot of men sleep in large rooms" (Speaking, 87)
Fog
To shoot (Falcon, 212)
Frail
Woman (Sleep, 127)
Frau
Wife (Pick-Up, 195)
From nothing, as in "I know from nothing"
I don't know anything (Shoot, 65)
Gams
Legs (especially a woman's) (e-mail)
Gashouse, as in "getting gashouse"
Rough (Pick-Up, 17)
Gasper
Cigarette (Turner)
Gat
Gun (passim)
Gate, as in "Give her the gate"
The door, as in leave (Dain, 195)
Gaycat
"A young punk who runs with an older tramp and there is always a connotation of homosexuality"
(Speaking, 87)
Gee
Guy (Art, 105)
Geetus
Money (Turner)
Getaway sticks
Legs (especially a woman's) (e-mail)
Giggle juice
Liquor (Turner)
Gin mill
Bar (speakeasy?) (e-mail suggestion)
Gink
Guy (Knockover, 433)
Girlie
Woman (Vengeance, 34)
Give a third
Interrogate (third degree) (Pick-Up, 70)
Glad rags
Fancy clothes (Knockover, 366)
Glom
1. To steal (Art, 217)
2. To see, to take a look
Glaum
Steal (Knockover, 46; Dain, 17)
Go climb up your thumb
Go fly a kite, go stick your thumb up your ass (Lake, 17)
Go over the edge with the rams
To get far too drunk (Night, 25)
Go to read and write
Rhyming slang for take flight (Op, 80)
Gonif
Thief (Yiddish) (Knockover, 364)
Goofy
Crazy (Knockover, 112)
Goon
Thug (Vengeance, 49)
Goose
Guy (Knockover, 366)
Gooseberry lay
Stealing clothes from a clothesline (see reference)
Gowed-up
On dope, high (Farewell, 81)
Grab (a little) air
Put your hands up (Sleep, 72; Pick-Up, 178)
Graft, the
1. Con jobs (Op, 170)
2. Cut of the take (Lake, 76)
Grand
$1000 (Pick-Up, 33)
Greasers
1. Mexicans or Italians.
2. A hoodlum, thief or punk.
(Pick-Up, 171)
Grift
1. As in "What's the grift?": What are you trying to pull? (Art, 39)
2. Confidence game, swindle
Grifter
Con man (Knockover, 354)
Grilled
Questioned (Op, 36)
Gum
1. As in "Don't ... gum every play I make": Gum up, interfere with (Op, 224)
2. Opium (e-mail)
Gum-shoe
Detective (Op, 36), also gumshoeing = detective work (Knockover, 197)
Gun for
Look for, be after (Op, 98)
Guns
1. Pickpockets (e-mail)
2. Hoodlums (Knockover, 400)
Gunsel
1. Gunman (Falcon) (Hammett invented this use)
2. Boy homosexual (Falcon)
3. "1. (p) A male oral sodomist, or passive pederast. 2. A brat. 3. (By extension) An informer; a
weasel; an unscrupulous person." (Underworld)
4. (Note Yiddish "ganzl" = gosling; see reference
Hack
Taxi (Farewell, 35; Vengeance, 35)
Half, a
50 cents (Shoot, 28)
Hammer and saws
Police (rhyming slang for laws) (Knockover, 70)
Hard
Tough (Art, 119)
Harlem sunset
Some sort fatal injury caused by knife (Farewell, 14)
Hash house
A cheap restaurant (Shoot, 9)
Hatchetmen
Killers, gunmen (Knockover, 202)
Have the bees
To be rich (Knockover, 62)
Have the curse on someone
Wanting to see someone killed (Turner)
Head doctors
Psychiatrists (Night, 193)
Heap
Car (Knockover, 400; Dain, 194)
Heat
A gun (Sleep, 73), also heater (Knockover, 160)
Heeled
Carrying a gun (e-mail)
High pillow
Person at the top, in charge (Farewell, 165)
Highbinders (Knockover, 242)
1. Corrupt politician or functionary
2. "Professional killer operating in the Chinese quarter of a city"
Hittin' the pipe
Smoking opium (Op, 62)
Hitting on all eight
As in cylinders, in good shape, going well (Dain, 182)
Hock shop
Pawnshop (Dain, 63)
Hogs
Engines (Art, 175)
Hombre
Man, fellow (Sleep, 209; Knockover, 413)
Hooch
Liquor (Art, 206; Knockover, 383)
Hood
Criminal (Pick-Up, 141)
Hooker, as in "It took a stiff hooker of whiskey" (Knockover, 408)
A drink of strong liquor (Partridge's)
Hoosegow
Jail (Knockover, 354)
Hop
1. Drugs, mostly morphine or derivatives like heroin (Farewell, 143)
2. Bell-hop (Lake, 73)
Hop-head
Drug addict, esp. heroin (Op, 52)
Horn
Telephone (e-mail)
Hot
Stolen (Knockover, 70)
House dick
House detective (Vengeance, 25)
House peeper
House detective (Playback, 118)
Hype
Shortchange artist (1930s) (e-mail)
Ice
Diamonds (Dain, 17)
In stir
In jail (Knockover, 380)
Ing-bing, as in to throw an
A fit (Key, 8)
Iron
A car (Key, 115)
Jack
Money (Op, 265; Sleep, 114; Art, 104)
Jake
Okay (Pick-Up, 29; Sleep, 108)
Jakeloo
Okay (Sleep, 163)
Jam
Trouble, as in "in a jam" (Shoot, 8)
Jane
A woman (e-mail)
Jasper
A man (perhaps a hick) (Lake, 77)
Java
Coffee (e-mail)
Jaw
Talk (Op, 99)
Jerking a nod
Nodding (Turner)
Jingle-brained
Addled (Knockover, 365)
Jobbie
Guy (Knockover, 439)
Joe
Coffee, as in "a cup of joe" (e-mail)
Johns
Police (Sleep, 69)
Johnson brother
Criminal (e-mail)
Joint
Place, as in "my joint" (Knockover, 199)
Jorum of skee
Shot of liquor (Turner)
Joss house
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