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Diving
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Pick-pocketry
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Dog
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Telephone (dog and
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bone=phone)
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Doris
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A woman
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Drink
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A bribe – ranging from a drink
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to a nice drink to a handsome
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drink
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Dripper
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Prostitute
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Drumming
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House-breaking
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Earner
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Easy money
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Elephants
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Inebriated (Elephant’s
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trunk=drunk; also legless; Brahms
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and Liszt=pissed)
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Eye-tie
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An Italian gentleman
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Feds
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Undercover cops
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Fence
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A receiver of stolen goods
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Filth
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The police (also Old Bill; Plod;
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Dibble; cozzers; rozzers)
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Firm
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A gang
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Fit up
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To give or plant false evidence
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Flowery
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Prison cell (flowery dell=cell)
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Four-be
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A Jewish man (four-be two=Jew)
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Frankie
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A cut-throat razor (Frankie
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Fraser=razor)
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Friend of ours
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One of us (As distinct from ‘a
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friend of mine’, which means he
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seems OK but hasn’t been fully
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referenced)
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Gaff
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A house (also drum)
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Gary
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Toilet or anus (Gary
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Glitter=shitter; also Khazi)
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Give a pull
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To impart words of advice
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Gold watch
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Scotch whisky
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Grass
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Informer
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Grumble
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Vagina (grumble and grunt=cunt)
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Gypsy’s
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A piss (gypsy’s kiss=piss; also
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Jimmy, Jimmy Riddle=piddle;
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slash; lash)
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Hampton
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Penis (Hampton Wick=prick)
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Hand Grenades
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AIDS
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Hank Marvin
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Starving
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Harry
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Semen (Harry Monk=spunk)
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A Henry
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An eighth of an ounce of
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cannabis, from Henry VIII
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In the frame
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To be prime suspect
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Iron
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Gay man (iron hoof=poof; also
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Duke of Kent=bent; ginger
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beer=queer)
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Jack and Danny
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Vagina (Jack and Danny=fanny;
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also Nook and Cranny)
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Jacks
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£5 (Jack’s alive=five; also Lady
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Godiva=fiver)
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Jacksie
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Arse
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Jamjar
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Car
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Jiggle
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A Frenchman (jiggle and
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jog=frog)
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Jivvle
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A woman (dismissive term)
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Joe
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A Pakistani man (Joe Daki=Paki)
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A Janet
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A quarter of an ounce of
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cannabis
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(Janet Street Porter=quarter)
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K
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£1,000
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K
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Ketamine (also known as Special
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K, Vitamin K)
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Khazi
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Toilet
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Khyber
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Arse, from Khyber Pass
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Kosher
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The real thing
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Long firm
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A business set up and allowed to
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run over a fairly lengthy period
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with the sole intention of
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defrauding creditors
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Manor
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Neighborhood
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Mark yer cards
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To give advice
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Minces
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Eyes (mince pies=eyes)
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Monkey
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£500
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Moody
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Fake
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Mug
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A stupid person (also muppet;
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ice cream)
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Mulla
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To beat up.
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Mutton
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Deaf (Mutt and Jeff=deaf)
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Ned
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TV (Ned Kelly=telly)
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Nonce
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