At it – engaged in crime
Bird – prison time
Blag – con, cheat or rob
Coat off – deliver a humiliating rebuke
Dabs – fingerprints
Face – professional criminal
Fanny – sweet-talk or deceive
Firm – gang
Firm-handed – as part of, or accompanied by, your gang
Grass – police informer
Long firm – fraud wherein a former paying customer
disappears with a large order of goods
Moody – dubious, false
On top – apparent to the police
Plot up – arrive on the scene
Ready eye – robbery under police observation
Shillelagh – Irish ornamental club
SP – starting price, i.e. basic information
SP office – bookmaker’s
Spieler / spiel – unlicensed gambling club
Tickle – proceeds from a robbery
Tom – cockney rhyming slang: tomfoolery = jewellery
Topped – killed
Verbal – uncorroborated written police statement