Q.: the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, popularly known as the C. B. & Q.
REPEATER, or REVOLVER: an old-timer; a professional criminal and a "blowed-in-the-glass" tramp.
SAPS: a clubbing with weapons made from saplings; synonymous with "timber." (See below.)
SCOFF: _noun_, food, "nourishment"; _verb_, to "feed," to "gorge."
SCRAPPER: a victim of either tramps or criminals who "puts up a fight."
SHATIN' ON ME UPPERS: to be "shatin'" on one's "uppers" is to be "dead broke."
SHOVER: a man who passes counterfeit money.
SINKER: a dollar; synonymous with "ball."
SNEAKS: flat or house thieves. A bank sneak is a bank thief.
SNIPE: cigar-butts--the favorite tobacco among hoboes.
SONG AND DANCE: a begging story or trick.
SPIEL: something to peddle. Hoboes often carry needles, pins, court-plaster, and the like. On meeting one another, they ask: "What's your spiel?" ("What are you hawking?") (See "graft.")
SPIKED: upset, chagrined, disappointed, disgusted.
STAKE-MAN: a fellow who holds a position only long enough to get a "stake"--enough money to keep him in "booze" and tobacco while he is on the road. The tramps call him a "gay-cat."
STIFF: a fellow; synonymous with "bloke" and "plug."
SUCKER: a victim of both tramps and criminals.
THROW THE FEET: to beg, "hustle," or do anything that involves much action.
TIMBER: a clubbing at the hands of the toughs of a town unfriendly to tramps. (See "Saps.")
TOMATO-CAN VAG: the outcast of Hoboland; a tramp of the lowest order, who drains the dregs of a beer-barrel into an empty tomato-can and drinks them; he generally lives on the refuse that he finds in scavenger barrels.
YAP: _noun_, a farmer or "hoosier"; _verb_, to say or to tell.
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