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

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booster bag n. Such activities are no more right than the robber with a gun, a shoplifter with a “booster bag,” or a crook making purchases by using other people’s credit cards. [English Crime & Prisons] [full cite] (Dec. 2, 2004)

booster bag n. Fact is, she may pick up 12 or 15 different articles and put them in her shopping bag or umbrella or her booster bag on one floor and then go on to the next. A booster bag is a store-label dress or suit box with a panel or slot cut in the side. Cotton batten is put in the bottom, just in case the lifter picks up something heavy. It won’t make a clunk when it drops in. [English Crime & Prisons] [full cite] (Dec. 2, 2004)

booster bag n. Friday, the 13th inst., was unlucky for the mother-and-daughter team, according to arresting officers, who said they followed the two on that day in a downtown department store and watched them take…goods. All was stuck in a booster-bag, the officers said, and later wrapped into parcels in the ladie’s rest room and placed in a shopping bag. [English Crime & Prisons] [full cite] (Dec. 2, 2004)

boot party n. Inmates throughout the BOP suffer boot-parties on an alarming scale because of this “trick bag.”…A few lumps on my head and a paint job on my eyes is far better than what could happen if I didn’t immediately fight—a boot party from my own people. [English Crime & Prisons] [full cite] (Jun. 14, 2005)

box job n. Prosecutors have alleged Chapman, Flanagan, Jacobi and others created shell corporations and sold securities while hiding the fact that they controlled all the shares of stock—a scheme regulators refer to as a “box job.” [English Crime & Prisons Money & Finance] [full cite] (Feb. 24, 2006)

brand-spoofing n. For those of you unfamiliar with the term…phishing (also known as “carding” or “brand spoofing”) is a thief’s fraudulent attempt to “fish” for your personal information. [English Crime & Prisons Technology] [full cite] (Sep. 24, 2004)

bring home v. phr. When he testified Monday morning, Batts said he had been newly initiated—also known as being “brought home’” or “jumped in’” to the Bloods gang—only a few weeks before the killing. [English Crime & Prisons Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 31, 2007)

buck fifty n. Henry also involved a practice called “a buck fifty”—targeting any innocent person. “You have to approach that person and pretty much slash them from the neck down,” he said. [English Crime & Prisons Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 30, 2006)

buffet flat n. Have you ever been to a buffet flat? It’s neither a lunchroom nor a variation of a western plain. It’s peculiar to Harlem, yet few white visitors to that Negro haven in New York City ever hear of it, and practically none get into one. In “Emperor Jones,” a picturization of Eugene O’Neill’s famous play…a buffet flat is shown in all its colorful detail. A buffet flat is simply a Harlem apartment to which people come to sit around, eat, drink, talk, sing and dance. [New York City English United States Crime & Prisons Food & Drink Slang] [full cite] (Sep. 1, 2004)

buffet flat n. From Twenty-second street south in Michigan avenue, Wabash avenue, State street, and the cross streets as far south as Thirty-first street is a rich district of the so-called buffet flats. There, too, can be found hundreds of handbooks, gaming houses, and all night saloons of the most vicious character. [English United States Crime & Prisons Food & Drink Slang] [full cite] (Sep. 1, 2004)

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