Gangster Speak

A Dictionary of Criminal and Sexual Slang

James Morton author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Ebury Publishing

Published:14th Nov '11

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For anyone wondering what they're talking about in Goodfellas and The Wire, this is the slang dictionary for you

Contains over 2,500 linguistic gems: Ghosting - the practice of transferring a troublesome prisoner to another establishment during the night without warning; Hobbit - a prisoner who complies with or sucks up to the system; Put on armour - layer oneself with magazines to deflect knife wounds in a prison fight; Hooch - 'illicit liquor'; and, more.

An Aladdin's cave of criminal slang as spoken in the UK, America and Australia. If you're scratching or set tripping, if you're viper mad or coming heavy, if the ming are on the wing and you've no idea what any of this means, then you need Gangster Speak.

From the shocking to the ridiculous, Gangster Speak contains over 2,500 linguistic gems:
Ghosting - the practice of transferring a troublesome prisoner to another establishment during the night without warning
Hobbit - a prisoner who complies with or sucks up to the system
Put on armour - layer oneself with magazines to deflect knife wounds in a prison fight
Hooch - 'illicit liquor'
A Bernie - a victim who might be armed and prepared to use a weapon, after Bernard Goetz who killed a robber on the subway

Providing a useful guide to the nicknames of criminals, as well as fascinating word histories and multiple definitions for different uses of a word around the globe, with Gangster Speak you'll never be lost for words.

ISBN: 9780753522851

Dimensions: 178mm x 110mm x 11mm

Weight: 107g

192 pages