A dictionary of the underworld
British & American, being the vocabularies of crooks, criminals, racketeers, beggars and tramps, convicts, the commercial underworld, the drug traffic, the white slave traffic, spivs.
3rd ed., much enlarged.
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Word Count
221,500 words, Guess
Page Count
886 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL5153025M
- ISBN-100710019335
- OCLC Control Number219633
- OCLC Control Numberdictionaryofunde00part
- Library of Congress Control Number74356238
and 2 more
- LibraryThing360358
- Goodreads1139515
Classifications
- DDC427/.09
- LCCPE3726 .P3 1968
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