Results for “cant”

Can't; cannot, or a typo for it.

Home, house, pad (Caló)

The prison store; commissary.

The upward or downward angle of your eyes — looksmaxxers obsess over a 'positive' one.

Tell me what's up (lit. 'sing it to me') (DR)

Stupid-looking, gormless, vacant — that thousand-yard slack-jawed stare.

The on-base canteen and shop — and by extension, a name for a slacker.

Lubricant compound on bolt threads — jokingly called 'anal ease'.

A disliked inmate sent to make canteen purchases for others.

Extorting goods or canteen from another prisoner.

A small, annoying, insignificant person

Cant for a man or fellow — your 'cove' could be a mate, a master, or the mark.

To speak or talk in the cant — and to 'cut bene whids' was to speak fair and friendly.

The name of the cant itself — and a verb meaning to talk — Britain's secret gay language.

To steal — the cant verb that gave us 'shoplifting' centuries on.

Mature content — open to view.

Cant for a woman — a 'walking mort' tramped the roads; an 'autem mort' was a wedded one.

The day, in the cant — paired against darkmans on the rogue's upside-down clock.

A thief, in the old canting tongue — the general word for anyone who lifts what isn't theirs.

The top rank of the canting crew — the boss rogue who lorded it over every lesser vagabond.

Cant for a church — root of 'autem mort' (a wedded woman) and 'autem diver' (church-thief).

Polari for good, fine or lovely — the warm thumbs-up at the heart of the cant.

To drink, in the old cant — and 'bousing ken' was the boozing-house where rogues drank.

An old name for the canting tongue itself — the secret 'language' of thieves and vagabonds.

Cant for 'good' — the opposite of 'queer'; bene bouse was good drink, a bene cove a sound man.

The night, in the cant — when the angler hooked windows and the prig went to work.