Crime & Prisons Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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blower n. Latterly, however, Chicago is a comparatively poor place for the “faker.” The business has been overdone, and the people have been taken in so many times that, as a rule, they wil not listen to the blower. [English Crime & Prisons] [full cite] (Feb. 15, 2006)

blue light bandit n. Impersonating police officers has become so common that law enforcement officials refer to them as “blue light bandits.” [English Crime & Prisons Police] [full cite] (May. 29, 2005)

blue light bandit n. After nearly deadlocking Thursday, a Chatham County Superior Court jury returned Friday and delivered a guilty verdict against one of Savannah’s alleged “blue light bandits.” Jimmy Bradford, 20, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on an armed robbery charge stemming from an incident on March 14, 1984, in which robbers used a flashing light and posed as law officers to stop and frisk a motorist. [English Crime & Prisons Police] [full cite] (May. 31, 2005)

blue light bandit n. A 53-year-old Monroe High School teacher refused to stop her car Thursday after being followed by a suspect flashing a blue police-style light on his pickup truck. Reports of a blue-light bandit who stopped women using such lights have been filed in Mecklenburg and several surrounding counties in the past year. [English Crime & Prisons Police] [full cite] (May. 31, 2005)

blute n. Blute. Fake clippings from a newspaper, used in big con games. [English Crime & Prisons Media] [full cite] (Jun. 1, 2005)

blute n. What impressed me about the meeting was Dave’s discussion of The Johnson Family Blute, a newspaper even more restricted in its circulation than the White House Press Digest, for there was only one copy of each issue, that intended for Dave. He had met members of the Johnson mob some years ealier, and they had taken such an interest in his work that they developed the habit of communicating with him regularly, to bring him up to date on changes in the lingo.…After a long run the Blute expired when the family broke up during the dispersal of the mobs during World War II. [English Crime & Prisons Media] [full cite] (Jun. 1, 2005)

blute n. Blute. A newspaper, especially fake clippings from a newspaper which are used in big-con games. [English Crime & Prisons Media] [full cite] (Feb. 2, 2006)

book bias n. The case against former El Paso natural gas trader Todd Geiger, who pleaded guilty last year, includes e-mails in which his colleagues discuss whether to report only real trades or include “book bias”—trader parlance for bogus internal deals that made volumes look bigger than they were. [English United States Business Crime & Prisons Money & Finance] [full cite] (Dec. 3, 2004)

booster bag n. “One thing that I look for when I come out here—people coming in with bags empty bags, almost empty bags, refer to it as a booster bag which is a lining inside the bag but open to guard against the metal detectors,” said Detective “X.” [English Crime & Prisons] [full cite] (Dec. 1, 2004)

booster bag n. During the raids, police seized booster bags worn under women’s dresses to conceal goods shoplifted from stores. “They could get articles as large as fur coats, video recorders, computers, fax machines, 20-piece bone china sets—right under the skirt and out the door.” [English Crime & Prisons] [full cite] (Dec. 2, 2004)

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