Dictionary of the Underworld British & American Being the Vocabularies of Crooks, Criminals, Racketeers, Beggars and Tramps, Convicts, the Commercial Underworld, the Drug Traffi

Partridge, Eric, Compiler. A Dictionary of the Underworld, British and American. Being the Vocabularies of Crooks, Criminals, Racketeers, Beggars and Tramps, Convicts, the Commercial Underworld, the Drug Traffic, the White Slave Traffic, Spivs. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950. xv, 804 pp. Reprint available October 2004 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-444-4. Cloth. $150. * Reprint of the second edition. One of the great lexicographers of the twentieth century, Partridge compiled the Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Shakespeare's Bawdy, A Dictionary of Catch Phrases and other books. Thoroughly engrossing, A Dictionary of the Underworld offers definitions for such obscure terms and phrases as "witch-hazel man" (heroin addict), "sarbot" (informer), "eason" (to tell) and "budge a beak" (run away).Partridge, Eric is the author of 'Dictionary of the Underworld British & American Being the Vocabularies of Crooks, Criminals, Racketeers, Beggars and Tramps, Convicts, the Commercial Underworld, the Drug Traffi', published 2004 under ISBN 9781584774440 and ISBN 1584774444.