Dictionary of the Underworld by Eric Partridge

Dictionary of the Underworld

Eric Partridge

624 pages first pub 1950 (editions)

nonfiction reference sociology challenging informative slow-paced
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This work looks at the area defined as "cant". It includes the vocabulary of "crooks, criminals, racketeers, beggars, tramps, convicts and the commercial underworld, the drug traffic, the white slave traffic and spivs", gathered from many countrie...

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