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[Wilson Gray]

Criminal Slang: The Vernacular of the Underground Lingo
https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1584773006
Captain Vincent Joseph Monteleone - c1949; rep. 2003 - ‎Preview
Criminal Slang: An Introduction Bryan A. Garner

"Oddly, Captain Monteleone's compilation isn't mentioned in the Select
Annotated Bibliography that J.E. Lighter included in his magisterial book
on slang, _The Random House Dictionary of American Slang_ (1994). Even more
surprisingly, it doesn't appear to have been cited anywhere in the
three-volume (and counting <sob!>) text."
- Bryan A. Garner

It looks like you made a mistake, Jon. But, so did he.







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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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