Gangster Speak : A Dictionary of Criminal and Sexual Slang

This is a dictionary for the Dave Courtney market. An Aladdin's cave of criminal slang as spoken in the UK, America and Australia.

If you're scratching or set tripping, if you're viper mad or coming heavy, if the ming are on the wing and you've no idea what any of this means, then you need "Gangster Speak".

From the shocking to the ridiculous, "Gangster Speak" contains over 2,500 linguistic gems.

Did you know: ghosting is the practice of transferring a troublesome prisoner to another establishment during the night without warning; a hobbit is a prisoner who complies with or sucks up to the system; to put on armour means to layer oneself with magazines to deflect knife wounds in a prison fight; hooch is from the Native American hoocheno and means 'illicit liquor'; and a Bernie is a victim who might be armed and prepared to use a weapon, after Bernard Goetz who killed a robber on the subway.

Providing a useful guide to the nicknames of criminals, as well as fascinating word histories and multiple definitions for different uses of a word around the globe, with "Gangster Speak" you'll never be lost for words.