‚Tis no Disparagement to understand the Canting Terms. it may chance to save your Throat from being cut, or (at least) your Pocket from being pick‘d. Elisha Coles, 1676

„I jammed the roscoe in his button and said, ‚Close your yap, bo, or I squir metal‘“ „The flim-flammer jumped in the flivver and faded.“ „You dumb mug, get your mittens off the marbles before I stuff that mud-pipe down your mush - and tell your moll to hand over the mazuma.“ „The sucker with the schnozzle poured a slug but before he could scram out two schamuzes shows him the shiv and said they could send him over.“ Philip Marlowe, Sam Spade, Mike Hammer sentences

In this building I am giving you the dope on, there is a stone wholesaler. The mark is on the fourth. There are two ins, but both are bugged. Shell door with duster and keister. Shell door bugged. Make your in from overhead in mouthpiece‘s office as floor is clean. Use the can-opener on the back of the box to clean it. Nail the stones but blow the slum. The building is cold after ten and you have eight hours to score before a rumble. Slipt out on the mope and connect on my plant. If you want to drop your end, I will have a scratch bidder. Criminal Cant, quoted in Maurer 1986

„The ability to understand current drug-related street terms is an invaluable tool for law enforcement, public health and other criminal justice professionals who work with the public.“ (DCDC, 1997)

Slang is language at its most playful and creative MUCH SLANG IS SHORTLIVED, SO TRY TO ENJOY IT WHILE IT LASTS! (Denis Baron, 1997)