# Crooked Talk

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- Authors: [Jonathon Green](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathon-green)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2016-04-07

## Description

The language of crime has a long and venerable history - in fact, the first collection of words specifically used by criminals, Hye-Way to the Spittel House , dates from as early as 1531. Jonathon Green is our national expert on slang, and in Crooked Talk he looks at five hundred years of crooks and conmen - from the hedge-creepers and counterfeit cranks of the sixteenth century to the blaggers and burners of the twenty-first - as well as the swag, the hideouts, the getaway vehicles and the 'tools of the trade'. Not to mention a substantial detour into the world of prisons that faced those unlucky enough to be caught by the boys in blue . If you have ever wondered when the police were first referred to as pigs , why prison guards became known as redraws , or what precisely the subtle art of dipology involves, then this book has all the answers.

## Editions

### Crooked Talk

- Publisher: arrow
- ISBN: 978-00-9954-999-4
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2016-04-07
- Language: en_GB