Cant -- Dictionaries

The slang dictionary: or, The vulgar words, street phrases, and "fast" expressions of high and low society. Many with their etymology, and a few with their history traced.

John Camden Hotten

A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words: used at the present day in the streets of London; the universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the houses of Parliament: the dens of St. Giles; and the palaces of St. James. Preceded by a history of cant and vulgar language; with glossaries of two secret languages, spoken by the wandering tribes of London, the costermongers, and the patterers.

By a London antiquary.

A dictionary of the underworld, British & American: being the vocabularies of crooks, criminals, racketeers, beggars and tramps, convicts, the commercial underworld, the drug traffic, the white slave traffic, spivs.

Eric Partridge

A dictionary of the underworld: British & American, being the vocabularies of crooks, criminals, racketeers, beggars and tramps, convicts, the commercial underworld, the drug traffic, the white slave traffic, spivs.

Eric Partridge

Criminal slang: the vernacular of the underground lingo

by Vincent J. Monteleone.

Lag's lexicon: a comprehensive dictionary and encyclopædia of the English prison of to-day.

Paul Tempest

Dictionnaire de la police et de la pègre: américain-français, français-américain

Jean-Paul Brunet.

Encyclopedia of world crime: criminal justice, criminology, and law enforcement

[editor-in-chief] Jay Robert Nash

World encyclopedia of organized crime

[edited by] Jay Robert Nash.

World encyclopedia of organized crime

[edited by] Jay Robert Nash.