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This work looks at the area defined as "cant". It includes the vocabulary of "crooks, criminals, racketeers, beggars, tramps, convicts and the commercial underworld, the drug traffic, the white slave traffic and spivs", gathered from many countries and from obscure sources.
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of the Underworld, Eric Partridge
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- Released
- 1995
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Eric Partridge
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Released
- 1995
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 624
- ISBN10
- 1853263613
- ISBN13
- 9781853263613
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Social Sciences, Literary Studies, Languages, Language Dictionaries, Philology
- Rating
- 4.3 out of 5
- Description
- This work looks at the area defined as "cant". It includes the vocabulary of "crooks, criminals, racketeers, beggars, tramps, convicts and the commercial underworld, the drug traffic, the white slave traffic and spivs", gathered from many countries and from obscure sources.