BLUDGET. A female thief who decoys her victims into alley-ways, or other dark places, for the purpose of robbing them.
BLUE-PIGEON-FLYING. Stealing lead off the tops of houses.
BLUE-PLUM. A bullet; "Surfeit the bloke with blue-plum," shoot him.
BLUNDERBUSS. An ignorant, blustering fellow.
BOAT. "To boat with another;" to go in with him; to be his partner in the same boat--in the same scrape.
BOB. The fellow that carries off the plunder; a shop-lifter; a cover or staller.
BONE. To take; to steal; to ask him for it.
BONNET. Hat. "Bonnet him," knock his hat down over his eyes.
BONNETTER. One who entices another to play; or the fellow who takes the "flat" in hand after the "roper in" has introduced him to the house.
BOODLE-CARRIER. The man who carries the bulk of the counterfeit money that is to be passed. The person who passes, or shoves it, as it is called, having but one "piece" at a time. The fellow with the boodle keeps close in the wake of the shover, to receive the good money, and supply him with the counterfeit, as occasion requires.
BOOTH. A place in which thieves congregate.
BOUNCE. To scold; blow up; to swagger; to convince by the force of sound more than sense.
BOUNCER. A fellow that robs while bargaining with the store-keeper.
BREAK-'O-DAY DRUM. A place for the sale of liquor, that never closes day or night.
BREAKUPS. Steamboat-landings; dispersing of people from theatres, lecture-rooms, churches, etc.
BROAD PITCHING. The game of three-card monte.
BROKEN LEG. A woman that has had a child out of marriage.
BROTHER OF THE COIF. A counsellor-at-law.
BROTHER OF THE QUILL. An author; an editor.
BROTHER OF THE STRING. Fiddler, or musician.
BRUSH. To flatter; to humbug; an encounter. "It was the hardest brush I ever saw; both men were as game as pebbles. It was nothing but cut, carve, and come again."
BRUSHING UP A FLAT. Praising or flattering.
BUBB. To drink; "Bubb your lush," drink your grog.
BUDGE. A thief that sneaks into a store, and hides until the persons who lock up are gone, when he lets in his accomplice.
BUFFING IT HOME. Swearing point blank to a circumstance or thing.
BUGGING. Taking money from a thief by a policeman.
BULK AND FILE. Shop-lifters; two pickpockets operating together--the "bulk" jostles the party that is to be robbed, and the "file" steals the treasure.