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Twists, Slug and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang Miskatonic University Press
This is just a sample of the content found on this website. Please visit the website to read the entire page. "Skip to Navigation Miskatonic University Press William Denton < wtd@pobox.com > Home › Twists, Slug and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang Submitted by wtd on 22 March 2009 - 5:52pm Compiled by William Denton < wtd@pobox.com >. Copyright © 1993-2009. Please send me corrections, additions, suggestions and comments. Edition 3.9.3. Version 4.0 is planned. Originally published as a pamphlet by Miskatonic University Press, 1993. This glossary is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Canada license. If you've ever read a hardboiled detective story, you may have come across a sentence like, "I jammed the roscoe in his button and said, 'Close your yap, bo, or I squirt metal.'" Something like this isn't too hard to decipher. But what if you encounter, "The flim-flammer jumped in the flivver and faded." "You dumb mug, get your mitts off the marbles before I stuff that mud-pipe down your mush--and tell your moll to hand over the mazuma." "The sucker with the schnozzle poured a slug but before he could scram out two shamuses showed him the shiv and said they could send him over." You may need to translate this into normal English just to be able to follow the plot. Or maybe you want to seem tougher. Why get in a car when you can hop in a boiler? Why tell someone to shut up when" .... read entire page
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