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Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang
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Twists, Slugs and Roscoes
Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang
Compiled by William Denton < wtd@pobox.com >. Copyright © 2005.
Please send me corrections, additions, suggestions and comments.
Edition 3.9.2. Version 4.0 is planned. Originally published as a
pamphlet by Miskatonic University Press, 1993.
This glossary may not be reproduced on the World Wide Web in any form.
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me.
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 you can tell them to"
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