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noun . A brand of cigar custom-made for Shanghai Kelly by a Chinese cigar-maker. In addition to the tobacco, it was laced with generous quantities of opium.
Loggers hauled their cuttings on greased, ox-pulled skids. The section of the lumber town where they recovered from the loneliness of the woods was called Skid Road. The term was shortened by some to Skid Row and became a synonym for any run-down section of town, dominated by saloons, liquor stores, and female rental concerns.
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noun. Perhaps the tenderest and most sympathetic term used to refer to a prostitute, evocating a sense of outrageously tainted innocence.
noun. The one who delivers the "spiel" or the line of a confidence game. The man who does most of the talking.
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noun. The lookout for a truck hijacking operation.
noun. The term which prisoners use to refer to those of us who have not been incarcerated or caught breaking the law.
noun. An advanceman whose job is to scout for prospective marks and bring the better ones to the confidence man.