These usages are arranged alphabetically here, all having something to do with the theme of "crime, law and order." For fuller information about each usage, see the main list. There are twenty-six files. Just click onto the appropriate letter.
a carpet, to get a: three-month prison sentence
ABH: actual bodily harm
GBH: grievous bodily harm
assosh: watching T.V. in prison
back-hander, a: under the table money
banged up: put in a prison cell
battle wagon: police jeep
battle-taxi: police jeep
beak, the: the judge
beast: sex-offender
bender: suspended sentence
bent: stolen
bird: a prison sentence
bizzies: the police
black economy: undeclared and therefore untaxable income for work
blackie: police van
blue paper with a duck on, a: summons
Blue Brick: prison
break eleven, to: to get caught
breck: condemned prisoner's last meal
bundle away, to: whisk a suspect away
bungs: bribes
business girl: prostitute
Busys: the police
cabbaging: pilfering
card school: illegal card game
casuals: expensively dressed marauding gangs
clat, to: inform
clocking: staring at a witness in a threatening manner
collar felt, to get one's: to get arrested
cop shop: police station
cough: a confession
cow: prostitute
cowboys: fly-by-night tradesmen
CPL: common prostitute loitering
CPS: common prostitute soliciting
dee block, the: the punishment block at Walton Prison
dee, the: the detective
dicin' by a jockey: street racing in a stolen car
dipper: pickpocket
dishonestly handling: receiving stolen goods
do ther mint, to: rob a meter
Dogs's (H)ome, the: Walton Jail
doin' a runner: escaping
Douse, keepin, to be: to be a lookout for signs of police
dousy, a: a lookout for a gambling operation
Eck, eck!: beware, police are coming!
fiddle, on the: on the take, scam
filth, the: the police
flog, to: to sell illegally
footman: foot patrolman
foreigner: personal job done on employer's time
gobber: swallower of evidence
gom, to: to report someone to the police
grass, to: to give information to the police
growler: sexual offender
Gurk, the(Joe Gerk's): The Walton Prison
horse box: van for moving prisoners to and from court
hooks: criminals
identity parade: police line-up
Intensive Care Unit: punishment block of prison
jacks: detectives
jam butty car, a: police car
jam roll: parole
jankers, to be on: to be in a military jail
jelly man: a safe breaker
jockey: driver of a stolen car
Joe Gerk, the: Walton Prison
judy-scuffer: woman police officer
Jug, the: Walton Jail
keepin' dixie: being a lookout for some illegal operation
Kirkby kiss: head-butting the face
knock off: stolen property
lag, a: jailbird
macing: getting goods by fraud
meat wagon: prisoner vehicles
minesweeper: stealer of pub drinks, food
Mingees: police
mint, to do the: rob a meter
mizzle, to: to flee, hide
moonlight flit, to do a: moving to avoid debts owed
mushed, to be: arrested
Muskers: police
nallered, to be: arresrted
nark, to: to give information to the police
nick off, to: departure to avoid the law
nick, to: steal
nick: jail
Nick, the: Walton Jail
nobble: drugging a horse to keep it from winning
noddy bike: small motor scooter
nonce: sex-offender
nut-cracker: policeman
Old Bill: police officer
on your toes, to be: run away quickly
one eyed people, the: town of Birkenhead
Paddy Kelly: dock police officer
panda car: police car
Plainees: plainclothes police
rat-trap car: car rigged to trap car-thieves
railway bogies: railway police
redband: a prison trustee
rent book: bail money
ringer: stolen car
rozzer: policeman
rumbled, to be: to be informed on or exposed
scally: rogue
Scally Spotter: police helicopter
screw: a prison officer
screw, to: to break into
script: criminal plan
scuffer: police officer
shoplifters's express: trains coming into Liverpool from the immediate countryside
sin bin: prison punishment area
six five special: a sudden cell transfer in prison
slop: a police constable
smash and grab: store window thefts
snout: tabacco in prison
spar: cell-mate
spooked, to be: to be under police surveillance
Stipe, the: Stipendiary Magistrate
stitched up: framed
stuffers: concealers of drugs in body orifices
swallowers: eaters of evidence
tabbie: highly vulnerable elderly person
to have been fitted up, or tooled up: equipped with burglary tools
to have been done: arrested
tom: jewelry
tooled up: equipped with burglary tools
toss school: coin pitching crowd
transit: police carriers
under the counter work: work done for undeclared and therefore untaxed income
Ville, de: Pentonville Prison
Waldorf Astoria, the: Walton Jail
Wally, the: Walton Jail
warrant key: police sledgehammer
whip, to: steal
white liver suspect: woman who may have been poisoning her husbands
wicked, the: the police
working jack: a detective
SAYINGS: CRIME, LAW AND ORDER
De quare feller's lampin: the stranger(perhaps police officer) is looking at us
Let's give de fellers de griffin(information)
Ed must seen yer nick(steal) de slummy(personal belongings or cash)
(H)ere yar, Ma. Eighteenpence--On an' Eight: a quick change artist
Dowse it: Trouble! Let's get away from here
get set: on the alert!
mind yer car, mister?: it's for your own good mister.
Moonlight flit, to do a: a few steps ahead of the landlord
Kekka mush dtherz a musker in thee `aystack: Shut up. A policeman is overhearing us.
This is stuff that fell off the backs of wagons (or lorries): It's all hot, stolen.
Once a policeman, never a man