TO BOUNCE. To brag or hector; to tell improbable stories.
TO BOUNCE HIM. To get one's property and refuse to pay for it.
TO HAVE A GAME DEAD. The gambler has a sure thing, and must beat his opponent.
TO RIGHTS. The evidence is conclusive enough to convict. "Try all they knew, the coppers could not pinch him to rights--he was too fly for them," the officers were not able to find evidence enough against him. He was too cunning for them.
TOBBY COVES. Fellows that in the night walk the streets near a river. They stun their victim by striking him with a bludgeon; they then rob him and tumble him into the river. If the body is found, it is difficult to say that the man was not accidentally drowned.
TOBED. Struck on the head and made senseless.
TODGE. To smash. "Todge the bloke and pad," smoke the man and run.
TOGS. Clothes. "The swell is rum-togged," the gentleman is well dressed.
TOOTH-MUSIC. Chewing food with a good appetite.
TOP-ROPES. Extravagant or riotous living.
TOPPED. Hanged. "The cove was topped for settling a bloke," the fellow was hanged for killing a man.
TOPPING-COVE. The head man of a party; sometimes the hangman.
TOUTING-KEN. The bar of a drinking-place.
TOWN-TODDLERS. Silly fellows easily taken in by the sharpers.
TRICKS. Anything stolen from a person at one time by pickpockets.
TRISTIS. Not good. "The fly kinchin is a tristis canis," the smart boy is a sad dog.
TRUET. Stealing money under pretense of changing it.
TRUMPET. A vain fellow who has a decided partiality for the letter I.
TRY ON. To endeavor; attempt it. "Coves who try on," fellows who live by stealing.
TUMBLED. Suspected; found it out. "Tumbled on him," came upon him unexpectedly. "Tumbled to him," suspected him; thought it was him.
TUNE. To beat. "Tune the toney," beat the fool.
TURF. Race-course. "The knucks work the turf for leather and skins," the pickpockets attend the race-courses to steal pocket-books and purses.
TURKEY-MERCHANTS. Purchasers of stolen silk.
TWIG. To observe. "Twig the copper, he is peery," observe the officer, he is watching us.
U. S. COVE. A soldier; a man in the employ of the United States.
UNICORN. Two men and one woman, or two women and one man banded together to steal.
UNTRUSS. To let down the shutters of a store.