#crime
48 words tagged “crime”
Cockney rhyming slang for jewellery.
Cockney for the Flying Squad — 'Sweeney Todd' rhymes with Squad, clipped to 'the Sweeney'.
To steal — the cant verb that gave us 'shoplifting' centuries on.
A sneak-thief who slipped into houses to steal cloaks and coats off the pegs.
To nick something — Geordie for steal.
An accomplice who screens the thief — the body that blocks the view while the foin works.
A petty thief.
Rhyming slang for snout (informer, or nose/cigarette).
A car — often a stolen or burner one.
Prison cell — 'the flowery'.
To pinch — to nick, to steal.
An armed robbery; to rob or bluff.
To steal; also a thief.
To flee, especially to avoid paying or facing consequences.
Cockney rhyming slang for fake.
A robbery score or quick come-up.
To steal something — rob it.
A gang or crew / group of associates
Informer (police informant) — from 'grasshopper' = copper.
The police, or jail itself, a cornerstone of the tango underworld's vocabulary.
A petty criminal, crook or lowlife, a fixture of the tango underworld.
Rhyming slang for copper (policeman); source of 'grass'.
A pickpocket, or the act of picking pockets, from the old porteno underworld.
A racket / con; a bandit or crook
A sly bit of thieving — or any cheeky stunt you pulled off.
To rob someone. A robbery.
An organised criminal gang, or a football hooligan crew.
Silent; to 'keep schtum' is to stay quiet.
to intimidate or rob someone by standover tactics
In jail / locked up
A thief who 'fished' goods through open windows with a hooked pole by night.
Verlan for 'pourri' (rotten) — specifically a corrupt cop on the take.
A thief, in the old canting tongue — the general word for anyone who lifts what isn't theirs.
A police informant; a snitch
An armed robber.
The Flying Squad (clipped from 'Sweeney Todd').
To steal; a thief
Rhyming slang for time, especially a prison sentence; clipped to 'bird'.
A cutpurse — the rogue who sliced the strings of a hanging purse and palmed the coin.
A robbery in which victims are bound.