Singin' in the Rain Trailer

Film Fatale Presents:Singin in the Rain

                     

On Saturday the 17th of December, Film Fatale, Dublin’s most glamorous film event, will close the year in style with a screening of the world’s most beloved musical Singin’ in the Rain. This night of cinema nostalgia and old–style Hollywood glamour will transport the audience back to the 1920s for a night of film, vintage music, cocktails, dancing and good old-fashioned fun.

The fabulous dancers from Dublindy's Hep Cat Club will be opening the night with a routine inspired by Singin' in the Rain. A screening of Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly’s glorious Technicolour musical will be followed by a roaring 1920s themed party mirroring the style of the film with Jaime Nanci and the Blue Boys and Film Fatale’s resident DJs, The Andrews Sisters’ Brothers, playing music from the era.

The audience is invited to help set the scene by dressing up as 1920s dames & fellas, in their vintage finest, paying homage to the glitzy musical style or emulating the characters from the film.

Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds star in a funny, affectionate, romantic nod to old Hollywood, specifically the troubled transition between silent and sound cinema. Jean Hagen steals the show as a screechy-voiced diva, but the real stars here are some of the finest song & dance numbers ever put on film, including O'Connor's acrobatic "Make 'em Laugh," the extraordinary "Broadway Melody/Broadway Rhythm" ballet between Kelly and Cyd Charisse, and, of course, Kelly's signature showstopper, "Singin' in the Rain."

In keeping with the classic cinema theme, the Film Fatale usherettes will be on hand serving popcorn and sweets and there will be a classic signature drink prepared especially for the night. Sit back in the sumptuous surroundings of the Sugar Club and enjoy a cocktail with Gene Kelly’s musical extravaganza before dancing the night away to ‘Singin' in the Rain’.


Tickets €15 are available at Entertainment.iehttp://entertainment.ticketsolve.com/shows/126519606/events  till 3pm on the day of the event.
Tickets will also be available on the night. 
After-party from 11pm with tickets at the door (€5)

Photos from Double Indemnity

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Film Fatale Fashion Emergencies

For any fashion emergencies, the Film Fatale usherettes will be selling some essential accessories, lined knee high stockings, long sexy gloves and hats. Most importantly they'll be on hand with red lip stick which is all a girl ever needs to be truly glamorous.

Noir Music

Sultry songs sung in small, smoky nightclubs dominate the film noir music landscape.

What's more, these songs usually aren't just decorative wallpaper; they are the heart and soul of the theme of the film. They often speak volumes more of subplot and character than the rest of the script.

On Saturday night we'll be evoking the sexy sound of Noir, starting of with the soulful Mizz Dietrichson who some of you may remember from Casablanca. A little taster of what you'll hear.

After the screening the Andrews Sisters Brothers will be playing their usual fare with a noir twist. Lots of jazzy numbers to sashay across the dance floor as well upbeat 1940s hits like the Andrews Sisters and Glenn Miller.  If you can't make it to the screening, the afterparty is from 11pm, with €5 cocktails and Dublin's best vintage DJs.

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1940s Mens Fashion

Due to war rationing 1940s mens fashion was smart but lacking in imagination all but wannabe detectives, gangsters and guys on the swing dance scene. If your going to play detective on Saturday night check out our previous post but if you see yourself as more of a gangster or a swing dancer read on for some fashion tips.

                                                                     The Zoot Suit

The Jazz Era's wide suit, hugely popular in Harlem in the 1930s, was worn predominately by African-American and Mexican-American youths in the 1940s. It was considered unpatriotic and even illegal because it went so far against the standards of rationing. The fact that so many of the Mexican-Americans who wore it were gangsters did not help its reputation. However, the high-waisted, baggy and low-crotched trousers with the narrow ankle and oversized jackets had a powerful influence on men's fashions in the 1940s. Besides being an ideal outfit to wear while jitterbugging, the high waists and boxy, roomy coats were flattering, as well as comfortable. They gave a man more substance, something he wanted to project during such desperate times. 

The Swing Scene 

 

The look most commonly associated with men's fashion in the 1940s, was what a man wore to take his honey out on the town. If he wasn't in uniform, his look was strictly adhered to by today's swing revivalists. Daring young men wore zoot suits, but others simply took off their single-breasted jackets to dance and showed off their style through their accessories. Even after the war, the accessories really made the man, the tie was crucial. In the 1940s, high-cut trousers meant ties were shorter and wider. They were brightly colored when everything else was austere. They were held in place by clips, because you wouldn't put a pin through your good tie. Shirts were held in place by good cufflinks and dressed up by suspenders, which fastened to the trousers by buttons. Suspenders were especially popular when the leather that would make belts was all going to the war effort. Almost everyone wore wingtip, spectator shoes, which were not terribly different from men's shoes in the 1920s or 1930s.

Femme Fatale Fashion

There is no cinematic image more classically fashionable than the femme fatale, there is something dark and alluring about the way  a femme fatale is presented on the screen. We can thank the much celebrated genre of Film Noir for the term, and for developing a certain image of femininity, and womanhood’s intersection with fashion, on the big screen. Traditionally defined as a film genre that stretched from the early 1940s to the late 1950s, Noir is used to describe the stylistic crime dramas of the period that often explored themes of moral indecision and repressed sexual impulsion. Noir plots are easily identified because most revolve around a hard boiled detective with a questionable moral compass who must solve a crime driven by jealousy, passion, alienation or false suspicions. The detective, though a series of flashbacks and interactions with unsavory characters and plenty of femme fatales, must conquer their moral complexities.  Noir oozes style and it's fashion speaks volumes about a femme fatale and what kind of woman she was. A seductress, a temptress, and the possessor of womanly wiles so extraordinary that they could manipulate even the most cunning of detectives, the femme fatale was fashionable, either wearing something overtly sexy or accentuating her eroticism in the details. Off the shoulder necklines, lacey ruffle details, and suits tailored to perfection were all designed to highlight the femme fatale’s voluptuous figure. Stockings with seamed backs were the ultimate finishing touch providing just a peak of naughty sexual suggestion. The femme fatale’s makeup and accessories were always the pinnacle of perfection.

For Barbara Stanwycks style inspiration please check out this post but here's some other classic femme fatale fashion inspiration for Saturday night.

                                           Rita Hayworth in Gilda

                                                   Lauren Bacall in The Big Sleep

                                                     Claire Trevor in Murder My Sweet

                                                       Gene Tierney in Laura

                                           Ava Gardner in The Killers

                                                       Vernonica Lake in This Gun for Hire

                                           Peggy Cummins in Gun Crazy

                                           Kim Novak in Vertigo

                                                   Jane Greer in Out of The Past

                                                     Lana Turner The Postman Always Rings Twice

http://www.missomnimedia.com/2009/09/fashion-meets-film-noir-and-the-femme-fatale/

The A-Z of Noir Lingo

A

• Alderman: A man's pot belly.
• Ameche: Telephone
• Ankle:
  • (n) Woman
  • (v) To walk

B

• Babe: Woman
• Baby: A person, can be said to either a man or a woman
• Bangtails: Racehorses
• Barber: Talk
• Baumes rush: Senator Caleb H. Baumes sponsored a New York law (the Baumes Law) which called for automatic life imprisonment of any criminal convicted more than three times. Some criminals would move to a state that didn't have this law in order to avoid its penalty should they be caught again, and this was known as a "Baumes rush," because of the similarity to "bum's rush."
• Be on the nut, To: To be broke
• Bean-shooter: Gun
• Beezer: Nose
• Behind the eight-ball: In a difficult position, in a tight spot
• Bent cars: Stolen cars
• Berries: Dollars
• Big house: Jail
• Big one, The: Death
• Big sleep, The: Death (coined by Chandler)
• Bim: Woman
• Bindle
  • of heroin: Little folded-up piece of paper (with heroin inside)
  • the bundle (or "brindle") in which a hobo carries all his worldy possessions
• Bindle punk, bindle stiff: Chronic wanderers; itinerant misfits, criminals, migratory harvest workers, and lumber jacks. Called so because they carried a "bindle." George and Lenny in Of Mice and Men are bindle stiffs.
• Bing: Jailhouse talk for solitary confinement, hence "crazy"
• Bird: Man
• Bit: Prison sentence
• Blip off: To kill
• Blow: Leave
• Blow one down: Kill someone
• Blower: Telephone
• Bo: Pal, buster, fellow, as in "Hey, bo"
• Boiler: Car
• Boob: Dumb guy
• Boozehound: Drunkard
• Bop: To kill
• Box:
  • A safe
  • A bar
• Box job: A safecracking
• Brace (somebody): Grab, shake up
• Bracelets: Handcuffs
• Break it up: Stop that, quit the nonsense
• Breeze: To leave, go; also breeze off: get lost
• Broad: Woman
• Broderick, The: A thorough beating
• Bruno: Tough guy, enforcer
• Bucket: Car
• Bulge, as in "The kid had the bulge there": The advantage
• Bulls: Plainclothes railroad cops; uniformed police; prison guards
• Bum's rush, To get the: To be kicked out
• Bump: Kill
• Bump gums: To talk about nothing worthwhile
• Bump off: Kill; also, bump-off: a killing
• Buncoing some (people): Defrauding people
• Bunk:
  • "Take a bunk" - leave, disappear
  • "That's the bunk" - that's false, untrue
  • "to bunk" - to sleep
• Bunny, as in "Don't be a bunny": Don't be stupid
• Burn powder: Fire a gun
• Bus: Big car
• Butter and egg man: The money man, the man with the bankroll, a yokel who comes to town to blow a big wad in nightclubs (see reference)
• Button: Face, nose, end of jaw
• Button man: Professional killer
• Buttons: Police
• Butts: Cigarettes
• Buy a drink: To pour a drink
• Buzz, as in "I'm in the dump an hour and the house copper gives me the buzz": Looks me up, comes to my door
• Buzzer: Policeman's badge

C

• C: $100, a pair of Cs = $200
• Cabbage: Money
• Caboose: Jail (from "calaboose," which derives from calabozo, the Spanish word for "jail")
• Call copper: Inform the police
• Can:
  • Jail
  • Car
• Can house: Bordello
• Can-opener: Safecracker who opens cheap safes
• Canary: Woman singer
• Case dough: "Nest egg ... the theoretically untouchable reserve for emergencies" (Speaking)
• Cat: Man
• Century: $100
• Cheaters: Sunglasses
• Cheese it: Put things away, hide
• Chew: Eat
• Chicago lightning: gunfire
• Chicago overcoat: Coffin
• Chick: Woman
• Chilled off: Killed
• Chin: Conversation; chinning: talking
• Chin music: Punch on the jaw
• Chinese angle, as in "You're not trying to find a Chinese angle on it, are you?": A strange or unusual twist or aspect to something
• Chinese squeeze: Grafting by skimming profits off the top
• Chippy: Woman of easy virtue
• Chisel: To swindle or cheat
• Chiv, chive: Knife, "a stabbing or cutting weapon" (Speaking)
• Chopper squad: Men with machine guns
• Clammed: Close-mouthed (clammed up)
• Clean sneak: An escape with no clues left behind
• Clip joint: In some cases, a night-club where the prices are high and the patrons are fleeced (Partridge's), but in Pick-Up a casino where the tables are fixed
• Clipped: Shot
• Close your head: Shut up
• Clout: Shoplifter
• Clubhouse: Police station
• Coffee-and-doughnut, as in "These coffee-and-doughnut guns are ...": Could come from "coffee and cakes," which refers to something cheap or of little value.
• Con: Confidence game, swindle
• Conk: Head
• Cool: To knock out
• Cooler: Jail
• Cop
  • Detective, even a private one
  • To win, as in a bet
• Copped, To be: Grabbed by the cops
• Copper
  • Policeman
  • Time off for good behaviour
• Corn: Bourbon ("corn liquor")
• Crab: Figure out
• Crate: Car
• Creep joint: ?? Can mean a whorehouse where the girls are pickpockets, but that doesn't fit in Pick-Up
• Croak: To kill
• Croaker: Doctor
• Crushed out: Escaped (from jail)
• Cush: Money (a cushion, something to fall back on)
• Cut down: Killed (esp. shot?)

D

• Daisy: None too masculine
• Dame: Woman
• Dance: To be hanged
• Dangle: Leave, get lost
• Darb: Something remarkable or superior
• Dark meat: Black person
• Daylight, as in "let the daylight in" or "fill him with daylight": Put a hole in, by shooting or stabbing
• Deck, as in "deck of Luckies": Pack of cigarettes
• Derrick: Shoplifter
• Diapers, as in "Pin your diapers on": Clothes, get dressed
• Dib: Share (of the proceeds)
• Dick: Detective (usually qualified with "private" if not a policeman)
• Dinge: Black person
• Dingus: Thing
• Dip: Pickpocket
• Dip the bill: Have a drink
• Dish: Pretty woman
• Dive: A low-down, cheap sort of place
• Dizzy with a dame, To be: To be deeply iin love with a woman
• Do the dance: To be hanged
• Dogs: Feet
• Doll, dolly: Woman
• Dope
  • Drugs, of any sort
  • Information
  • As a verb, as in "I had him doped as" - to have figured for
• Dope fiend: Drug addict
• Dope peddler: Drug dealer
• Dormy: Dormant, quiet, as in "Why didn't you lie dormy in the place you climbed to?"
• Dough: Money
• Drift: Go, leave
• Drill: Shoot
• Drink out of the same bottle, as in "We used to drink out of the same bottle": We were close friends
• Drop a dime: Make a phone call, sometimes meaning to the police to inform on someone
• Droppers: Hired killers
• Drum: Speakeasy
• Dry-gulch: Knock out, hit on head after ambushing
• Ducat
  • Ticket
  • For hobos, a union card or card asking for alms
• Duck soup: Easy, a piece of cake
• Dummerer: Somebody who pretends to be (deaf and?) dumb in order to appear a more deserving beggar
• Dump: Roadhouse, club; or, more generally, any place
• Dust
  • Nothing, as in "Tinhorns are dust to me"
  • Leave, depart, as in "Let's dust"
  • A look, as in "Let's give it the dust"
• Dust out: Leave, depart
• Dutch
  • As in "in dutch" - trouble
  • As in "A girl pulled the Dutch act" - committed suicide
  • As in "They don't make me happy neither. I get a bump once'n a while. Mostly a Dutch." - ?? relates to the police (Art)

E

• Eel juice: liquor
• Egg: Man
• Eggs in the coffee: Easy, a piece of cake, okay, all right
• Elbow:
  • Policeman
  • A collar or an arrest. Someone being arrested will "have their elbows checked."
• Electric cure: Electrocution
• Elephant ears: Police

F

• Fade: Go away, get lost
• Fakeloo artist: Con man
• Fin: $5 bill
• Finder: Finger man
• Finger, Put the finger on: Identify
• Flat
  • Broke
  • As in "That's flat" - that's for sure, undoubtedly
• Flattie: Flatfoot, cop
• Flimflam(m): Swindle
• Flippers: Hands
• Flivver: A Ford automobile
• Flogger: Overcoat
• Flop:
  • Go to bed
  • As in "The racket's flopped" - fallen through, not worked out
• Flophouse: "A cheap transient hotel where a lot of men sleep in large rooms" (Speaking)
• Fog: To shoot
• Frail: Woman
• Frau: Wife
• Fry: To be electrocuted
• From nothing, as in "I know from nothing": I don't know anything

G

• Gams: Legs (especially a woman's)
• Gashouse, as in "getting gashouse": Rough
• Gasper: Cigarette
• Gat: Gun
• Gate, as in "Give her the gate": The door, as in leave
• Gaycat: "A young punk who runs with an older tramp and there is always a connotation of homosexuality" (Speaking)
• Gee: Man
• Geetus: Money
• Getaway sticks: Legs (especially a woman's)
• Giggle juice: Liquor
• Gin mill: Bar
• Gink: Man
• Girlie: Woman
• Give a/the third: Interrogate (third degree)
• Glad rags: Fancy clothes
• Glom
  • To steal
  • To see, to take a look
• Glaum: Steal
• Go climb up your thumb: Go away, get lost
• Go over the edge with the rams: To get far too drunk
• Go to read and write: Rhyming slang for take flight
• Gonif: Thief (Yiddish)
• Goofy: Crazy
• Goog: Black eye
• Goon: Thug
• Goose: Man
• Gooseberry lay: Stealing clothes from a clothesline (see reference)
• Gowed-up: On dope, high
• Grab (a little) air: Put your hands up
• Graft:
  • Con jobs
  • Cut of the take
• Grand: $1000
• Greasers:
  • Mexicans or Italians.
  • A hoodlum, thief or punk.
• Grift:
  • As in "What's the grift?": What are you trying to pull?
  • Confidence game, swindle
• Grifter: Con man
• Grilled: Questioned
• Gum:
  • As in "Don't ... gum every play I make": Gum up, interfere with
  • Opium
• Gum-shoe: Detective; also gumshoeing = detective work
• Gun for: Look for, be after
• Guns:
  • Pickpockets
  • Hoodlums
• Gunsel:
  • Gunman (Hammett is responsible for this use; see note)
  • Catamite.
  • "1. (p) A male oral sodomist, or passive pederast. 2. A brat. 3. (By extension) An informer; a weasel; an unscrupulous person." (Underworld)
  • Note Yiddish "ganzl" = gosling

H

• Hack: Taxi
• Half, A:50 cents
• Hammer and saws: Police (rhyming slang for laws)
• Hard: Tough
• Harlem sunset: Some sort fatal injury caused by knife (Farewell, 14)
• Hash house: A cheap restaurant
• Hatchetmen: Killers, gunmen
• Have the bees: To be rich
• Have the curse on someone: Wanting to see someone killed
• Head doctors: Psychiatrists
• Heap: Car
• Heat: A gun, also heater
• Heeled: Carrying a gun
• High pillow: Person at the top, in charge
• Highbinders
  • Corrupt politician or functionary
  • Professional killer operating in the Chinese quarter of a city
• Hinky: Suspicious
• Hitting the pipe: Smoking opium
• Hitting on all eight: In good shape, going well (refers to eight cylinders in an engine)
• Hock shop: Pawnshop
• Hogs: Engines
• Hombre: Man, fellow
• Hooch: Liquor
• Hood: Criminal
• Hooker, as in "a stiff hooker of whiskey": A drink of strong liquor
• Hoosegow: Jail
• Hop:
  • Drugs, mostly morphine or derivatives like heroin
  • Bell-hop
• Hop-head: Drug addict, esp. heroin
• Horn: Telephone
• Hot: Stolen
• House dick: House/hotel detective
• House peeper: House/hotel detective
• Hype: Shortchange artist

I

• Ice : Diamonds
• In stir: In jail
• Ing-bing, as in to throw an: A fit
• Iron: A car

J

• Jack: Money
• Jake, Jakeloo: Okay
• Jam: Trouble, as in "in a jam"
• Jane: A woman
• Jasper: A man (perhaps a hick)
• Java: Coffee
• Jaw: Talk
• Jerking a nod: Nodding
• Jingle-brained: Addled
• Jobbie: Man
• Joe: Coffee, as in "a cup of joe"
• Johns: Police
• Johnson brother: Criminal
• Joint: Place, as in "my joint"
• Jorum of skee: Shot of liquor
• Joss house: Temple or house of worship for a Chinese religion
• Juice: Interest on a loanshark's loan
• Jug: Jail
• Jujus: Marijuana cigarettes
• Jump, The: A hanging
• Junkie: Drug addict

K

• Kale: Money
• Keister, keyster:
  • Suitcase
  • Safe, strongbox
  • Buttocks
• Kick, as in "I got no kick": I have nothing to complain about
• Kick off: Die
• Kicking the gong around: Taking opium
• Kiss: To punch
• Kisser: Mouth
• Kitten: Woman
• Knock off: Kill
• Knockover: Heist, theft

L

• Lammed off: Ran away, escaped
• Large: $1,000; twenty large would be $20,000
• Law, the: The police
• Lay
  • Job, as in Marlowe saying he's on "a confidential lay;" or more generally, what someone does, as in "The hotel-sneak used to be my lay"
  • As in "I gave him the lay" - I told him where things stood (as in lay of the of land)
• Lead poisoning: To be shot
• Lettuce: Folding money
• Lid: Hat
• Lip: (Criminal) lawyer
• Lit, To be: To be drunk
• Loogan: Marlowe defines this as "a guy with a gun"
• Looker: Pretty woman
• Look-out: Outside man
• Lousy with: To have lots of
• Lug
  • Bullet
  • Ear
  • Man ("You big lug!")
• Lunger: Someone with tuberculosis

M

• Made: Recognized
• Map: Face
• Marbles: Pearls
• Mark: Sucker, victim of swindle or fixed game
• Mazuma: Money
• Meat, as in "He's your meat": He's the subject of interest, there's your man
• Meat wagon: Ambulance
• Mesca: Marijuana
• Mickey Finn
  • (n) A drink drugged with knock-out drops
  • (v) Take a Mickey Finn: Take off, leave
• Mill: Typewriter
• Mitt: Hand
• Mob: Gang (not necessarily Mafia)
• Moll: Girlfriend
• Monicker: Name
• Mouthpiece: Lawyer
• Mud-pipe: Opium pipe
• Mug: Face
• Muggles: Marijuana
• Mugs: Men (esp. dumb ones)
• Mush: Face

N

• Nailed: Caught by the police
• Nance: An effeminate man
• Nevada gas: Cyanide
• Newshawk: Reporter
• Newsie: Newspaper vendor
• Nibble one: To have a drink
• Nicked: Stole
• Nippers: Handcuffs
• Nix on (something): No to (something)
• Noodle: Head
• Nose-candy: Heroin, in some cases
• Number: A person, can be either a man or a woman

O

• Off the track, as in "He was too far off the track. Strictly section eight": Said about a man who becomes insanely violent
• Op: Detective (esp. private), from "operative"
• Orphan paper: Bad cheques
• Out on the roof, To be: To drink a lot, to be drunk
• Oyster fruit: Pearls

P

• Pack: To carry, esp. a gun
• Palooka: Man, probably a little stupid
• Pan: Face
• Paste: Punch
• Patsy: Person who is set up; fool, chump
• Paw: Hand
• Peaching: Informing
• Pearl diver: dish-washer
• Peeper: Detective
• Pen: Penitentiary, jail
• Peterman: Safecracker who uses nitroglycerin
• Pigeon: Stool-pigeon
• Pill
  • Bullet
  • Cigarette
• Pinch: An arrest, capture
• Pins: Legs (especially a woman's)
• Pipe: See or notice
• Pipe that: Get that, listen to that
• Pipes: Throat
• Pistol pockets: ?? heels?
• Pitching woo: Making love (Turner)
• Plant
  • (n) Someone on the scene but in hiding
  • (v) Bury
• Plug: Shoot
• Plugs: People
• Poke
  • Bankroll, stake
  • Punch (as in "take a poke at")
• Pooped: Killed
• Pop: Kill
• Pro skirt: Prostitute
• Puffing: Mugging
• Pug: Pugilist, boxer
• Pump: Heart
• Pump metal: Shoot bullets
• Punk
  • Hood, thug
  • "A jailhouse sissy who is on the receiving end." (Also as a verb, as in "to get punked.")
• Puss: Face
• Put down: Drink
• Put the screws on: Question, get tough with

Q

• Queer
  • (n) Counterfeit
  • (n) Sexually abnormal
  • (v) To ruin something or put it wrong ("queer this racket")

R

• Rags: Clothes
• Ranked: Observed, watched, given the once-over
• Rap
  • Criminal charge
  • Information, as in "He gave us the rap"
  • Hit
• Rappers: Fakes, set-ups
• Rat: Inform
• Rate: To be good, to count for something
• Rats and mice: Dice, i.e. craps
• Rattler: Train
• Red-light: To eject from a car or train
• Redhot: Some sort of criminal
• Reefers: Marijuana cigarettes
• Rhino: Money
• Ribbed up, as in "I got a Chink ribbed up to get the dope": Set up, arranged for? "I have arranged for a Chinese person to get the information"? (Knockover, 203)
• Right: Adjective indicating quality
• Right gee, Right guy: A good fellow
• Ringers: Fakes
• Rod: Gun
• Roscoe: Gun
• Roundheels
  • A fighter with a glass jaw
  • A woman of easy virtue
• Rub-out: A killing
• Rube: Bumpkin, easy mark
• Rumble, the: The news
• Run-out, To take the : Leave, escape

S

• Sap
  • A dumb guy
  • A blackjack
• Sap poison: Getting hit with a sap
• Savvy?: Get me? Understand?
• Sawbuck: $10 bill (a double sawbuck is a $20 bill)
• Scatter, as in "And don't bother to call your house peeper and send him up to the scatter"
  • Saloon or speakeasy.
  • A hideout, a room or lodging
• Schnozzle: Nose
• Scram out: Leave
• Scratch: Money
• Scratcher: Forger
• Screw
  • Leave, as in "Let's screw before anybody pops in"
  • Prison guard
• Send over: Send to jail
• Shamus: (Private) detective
• Sharper: A swindler or sneaky person
• Shells: Bullets
• Shine
  • Black person
  • Moonshine, bootleg liquor
• Shine Indian: ?? (Knockover, 89)
• Shiv: Knife
• Shylock: Loanshark
• Shyster: Lawyer
• Silk, as in "all silk so far": All okay so far
• Sing: Confess, admit secrets
• Sister: Woman
• Skate around, as in "She skates around plenty": To be of easy virtue
• Skid rogue: A bum who can't be trusted
• Skipout: Leave a hotel without paying, or a person who does so
• Skirt: Woman
• Slant, Get a: Take a look
• Sleuth: Detective
• Slug
  • As a noun, bullet
  • As a verb, to knock unconscious
• Smell from the barrel, Have a: Have a drink
• Smoke: A black person
• Smoked: Drunk
• Snap a cap: Shout
• Snatch: Kidnap
• Sneak
  • Leave, get lost, as in "If you're not a waiter, sneak"
  • Type of burglary, as in as in "The hotel-sneak used to be my lay"
• Sneeze: Take
• Snitch: An informer, or, as a verb, to inform
• Snooper: Detective
• Snort (as in of gin): A drink
• Snow-bird: (Cocaine) addict
• Snowed: To be on drugs (heroin? cocaine?); also "snowed up"
• Soak: To pawn
• Sock: Punch
• Soup: Nitroglycerine
• Soup job: To crack a safe using nitroglycerine
• Spill: Talk, inform; spill it = tell me
• Spinach: Money
• Spitting: Talking
• Spondulix: Money
• Square: Honest; on the square: telling the truth
• Squirt metal: Shoot bullets
• Step off: To be hanged
• Sticks of tea: Marijuana cigarettes
• Stiff: A corpse
• Sting: Culmination of a con game
• Stool-pigeon: Informer
• Stoolie: Stool-pigeon
• Stringin': As in along, feeding someone a story
• Sucker: Someone ripe for a grifter's scam
• Sugar: Money
• Swift, To have plenty of: To be fast (on the draw)
• Swing: Hang

T

• Tail: Shadow, follow
• Take a powder: Leave
• Take it on the heel and toe: Leave
• Take on: Eat
• Take the air: Leave
• Take the bounce: To get kicked out (here, of a hotel)
• Take the fall for: Accept punishment for
• Tea: Marijuana
• That's the crop: That's all of it
• Three-spot: Three-year term in jail
• Throw a joe: Pass out ?? (Key, 86)
• Throw lead: Shoot bullets
• Ticket: P.I. license
• Tiger milk: Some sort of liquor
• Tighten the screws: Put pressure on somebody
• Tin: Badge
• Tip a few: To have a few drinks
• Tip your mitt: Show your hand, reveal something
• Tomato: Pretty woman
• Tooting the wrong ringer: Asking the wrong person
• Torcher: Torch singer
• Torpedoes: Gunmen
• Trap: Mouth
• Trigger man: Man whose job is to use a gun
• Trip for biscuits, as in "You get there fast and you get there alone - or you got a trip for biscuits": Make the trip for no purpose, achieve no results
• Trouble boys: Gangsters
• Turn up: To turn in (to the police)
• Twist: Woman
• Two bits: $25, or 25 cents.

U

• Under glass: In jail
• Up-and-down, as in "to give something the up-and-down": A look
• Uppers, as in "I've been shatting on my uppers for a couple of months now" or "I'm down on my uppers": To be broke

V

• Vag, as in vag charge, vag law: Vagrancy
• Vig, Vigorish
  • Excessive interest on a loanshark's loan
  • Advantage in odds created by a bookie or gambler to increase profit

W

• Weak sister: A push-over
• Wear iron: Carry a gun
• Wheats, as in "a stack of wheats": Pancakes
• White
  • Good, okay, as in "white dick"
  • Gin ("a gallon of white")
• Wikiup: Home
• Wire, as in "What's the wire on them?": News, "What information do you have about them?"
• Wise, To be To be knowledgeable of; put us wise: tell us
• Wise head: A smart person
• Wooden kimono: A coffin
• Worker, as in "She sizes up as a worker": A woman who takes a guy for his money
• Wrong gee: Not a good fellow
• Wrong number: Not a good fellow

Y

• Yap: Mouth
• Yard: $100
• Yegg: Safecracker who can only open cheap and easy safes

Z

• Zotzed: Killed 

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