DIESEL UNIVERSE SLANG DICTIONARY
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C: $100, a pair of Cs = $200
Cabbage: Money
Caboose: Jail
Cahoots: Working together
Cake Basket : A limousine
Cake-Eater : A wearer of tight clothes, belted coat with spearlike lapels and one button, sausage trousers, low quick fitting collar, greenish pink shirt; and one of those jazzbo ties that gives you the giggles; a sissy; a harmless lounge lizard
Call copper: Inform the police
Can: Jail, Car
Can house: Bordello
Can-opener: Safecracker who opens cheap safes
Canary: Wo singer
Cancelled Stamp : A wallflower
Carry a Torch: Suffering from an unrequited love
Case dough: Nest egg
Cast an eyeball: look around
Cat: Man
Cat's Meow: Something splendid or stylish
Cat's Pajamas: term of endearment as in "I think you are really really cool"
Cat's Particulars : The acme of perfection; anything that's good
Catnip: Great; Super; used primarily by werecat breeds
Cellar Smeller : A young man who always turns up where liquor is to be had without cost
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 squeeze: Grafting by skimming profits off the top
Chippy: Woman of easy virtue
Chisel: To swindle or cheat
Chiv: Knife, "a stabbing or cutting weapon"
Chopper squad: Men with machine guns
Chrome-dome: word for a bald headed man
Chump: person marked for a con or a gullible person
City slicker: dandy from the city
Clammed: Close-mouthed (clammed up)
Clean sneak: An escape with no clues left behind
Clip joint: In some cases, a nightclub where the prices are high and the patrons are fleeced
Clipped: Shot
Close your head: Shut up
Clothesline : One who tells neighborhood secrets
Clout: Shoplifter
Clubhouse: Police station
Cooking with gas: doing well
Con: Confidence game, swindle
Conk: Head
Cool: To knock out
Cooler: Jail
Cop: Detective, even a private one
Copped, to be: Grabbed by the cops
Copper: Policeman
Corn: Bourbon ("corn liquor")
Corn-shredder : Young man who dances on lady's feet
Corny: unimportant, passé
Crab: Figure out
Crabhanger : Reformer
Crasher : Anyone who comes to parties uninvited
Crashing Party : Party where several young men in a group go uninvited
Crate: Car
Creep: despicable person
Crepe Hanger : Reformer
Croak: To kill
Croaker: Doctor
Crumb Gobbler : Slightly sissy tea hound
Crush: An infatuation
Crushed out: Escaped (from jail)
Cuddle-cootie : Young man who takes a girl for a ride on a bus
Cuddler : One who likes petting
Cut a rug: dance
Cut down: Killed
Cutting yourself a piece of cake : Making yourself wait patiently