HIGH GAG. Telling secrets; a fellow that whispers.
HIGH TOBERS. Gonnoffs; the highest order of thieves, who generally go well dressed, and frequent watering-places, etc., etc.
HIGH-LIVER. A fellow who lives in a garret.
HIKE. Run away. "Hike; the cops have tumbled to us," run; the officers have seen us.
HISTORY OF THE FOUR KINGS. A pack of cards. "The bloke's skin is lathy, he studies the history of the four kings closer than the autum-bawler's patter," the man's purse is thin; he studies a pack of cards more than the parson's sermons.
HOCK. Caught in hock; caught by the heels. "If the cove should be caught in the hock he won't snickle," if the fellow should be caught in the act, he would not tell.
HOCUS. To stupify. "Hocus the bloke's lush, and then frisk his sacks," put something into the fellow's drink that will stupify him, and then search his pockets.
HOG IN ARMOR. A blustering office-holder.
HOIST. To rob houses by climbing into a window. It is generally done by two or three follows, one of whom stands close to the house, and the others climb up on him to the window.
HOISTING. Putting a man upright on his head, and shaking him until his money and watch fall out of his pockets; they hold this to be no robbery.
HOOF. Foot. "To beat the hoof," to travel on foot.
HORSE-CAPPERS. Fellows that cheat simple people out of their money by the aid of a broken-down first-class horse.
HOT. Too well known. "The cove had better move his beaters into Dewsville, it is too hot for him here; if he stops, he'll be sure to be sick for twenty stretches," the fellow had better go into the country, for if he stays, he will be sent to prison for twenty years.
HUMPHREY. A coat used by pickpockets, that has pocket-holes, but no pockets.
HUSH. Murder. "Hush the bloke," kill the fellow.
HUSH-STUFF. Money given to prevent a witness from testifying.
IMPOST-TAKER. One who lends money to thieves and gamblers at very high rates.
IMPUDENT. To cut the tails of a man's coat.
INDORSER. One who flogs another on the back.
INGLERS. Horse-dealers who cheat those that deal with them.
INNOCENTS. Convicts, because it is supposed that they can not commit crime.
INTIMATE. A shirt. "Intimate as your shirt."
IVORIES. The teeth. "How the blowen flashes her ivories," how the girl shows her teeth.