Book: A Short Dictionary of Criminal Slang

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**Book: A Short Dictionary of Criminal Slang** (Russian: *Книга: Краткий словарь блатного жаргона*) is a text document in *ATOM RPG*.

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This handbook was created for police officers to consult. Please bear in mind that it is a CONSISE dictionary of prison slang ('fenya'); however, this should be enough to help you perform better and avoid unnecessary risks. "

Colonel L. I. Dudin.

А

Abwehr - operating unit.

Academician - experienced criminal; a member of the criminal elite (see blatnoy, shot caller, thief).

Academy - prison; thief school.

A jour - order; putting everything in order.

Allure - specific greeting.

Anchor man – poor man.

Aviator - smuggler.

B

Babble – to let out a secret.

Badyaga – something useless; boredom; pointless chat.

Baggage – prison term. Baklan – inexperienced thief; hoodlum; potential victim.

Balamut – instigator; someone inclined to loud scandals.

Balanda – prison food.

Ballsy – brave person.

Ban – market; railway station.

Baryga – person who buys and sells the loot.

Base – den (see blat-hut).

Bazar – distracting potential victims.

To bazar – to have a concersation.

Beetle – fake ID.

Belcher – beer bar; drinking establishment.

Berloga – gang leader's apartment.

Bespredel – breaking the criminal "rules"; lawlessness.

Bible – pack of cards.

Billfold – wallet.

Blat-hut – den (see base).

Blatnoy – member of the criminal elite (see academician, shot-caller, thief).

Blings - jewellery.

Boomstick – firearm; gun (see gat).

Bouncer – muscled man.

Box – coffin.

Busk– to play a musical instrument, dance.

Busker - musician.

Buzzkill – policeman (see cop, fuzz).

C

Cache – secret place.

Canary – informer.

Cannetille – resolving a dispute.

Canny – cunning (see crafty).

Can't be arsed – reluctant to do.

Carp – rich man (see fat).

Case – crime.

Central – leader of a criminal gang.

Charm - luck.

Cherry – girl who lost her virginity at an early age.

Chest – shop.

Chick – partner; mistress; woman engaged in prostitution.

Chicken out – to get too scared and refuse to do something.

Chifir – very strong tea.

Chifirtank – special mug for brewing chifir'.

Chmo – untidy person at the social bottom.

Chum – partner in crime; old friend.

Chushkar – dirty despised person.

Chuvyrla – ugly woman.

Clique – group of people connected to the criminal world.

Come out of the woodwork – appear.

Cool – very good.

Crack – make someone confess.

Crafty – cunning (see canny).

Crapper– liar; fake information; anus.

Cocksucker – male inclined to orogenital contact.

Coinbag – wallet.

Comare – mistress.

Con – to deceive someone.

Confession – interrogation.

Cookie jar – reserve stock.

Cop – policeman (see buzzkill, fuzz).

Cutpurse – pickpocket.

D

Dent – to damage, break.

Donkey – sycophant.

Dope up – to take a drug.

Dough – money (see greens).

E

Egor – a suspicious person.

Engin – danger.

Erik – old.

Excorcist – stupid person; liar.

F

Fairy – good person.

Far shores – prison out of town.

Fast woman – person who illegally engages in sexual services for payment (see hooker, trollop, whore).

Fat – rich (see carp).

Flatboard – broad fat face; untidy person.

Fly the coop – run away.

Frames - glasses.

Freier – person who enjoys no respect in the criminal circle; someone who obeys the law.

Fish tank – tram.

Fenya – prison slang.

Fudge – lie; deceit.

Fuzz – policeman (see buzzkill, cop).

G

Gambling den – gaming house.

Garb – clothes.

Gat - pistol.

Get a leg over – to have sex.

Get bronze – be full of oneself.

Gills – throat; chest.

Giver – package to an inmate; prison bunk; loot.

Gofer – sidekick, servant.

Goggle – look.

Grand – 1000 rubles.

Greens – money (see dough).

Greyhair – silver.

Grinders – jaws.

Groom – thief's victim.

Grub – food.

Gunmoll – lover from the criminal world.

Gunsel – passive partner in anal intercourse.

H

Hash - hashish.

High-hat – to show off; to scorn someone; to bluff.

Hooker – person who illegally engages in sexual services for payment (see fast woman, trollop, whore); informer.

Hut – place where one can hide from criminal prosecution.

Hype – loud scandal.

I

Icon – photo.

Idol – rebel; troublemaker outside the criminal world.

Imp – criminal who enjoys no respect in the criminal world.

Incubator - dormitory.

J

Jackal – to beg.

Jeweller – someone who steals jewelry.

K

Kabspern – a certain number of knocks on the door; password.

Khalyava – female thief.

Kidala – swindler.

Kite – message.

Kitty – pooled fund used by thieves.

Knuckle duster – brass knuckles.

L

Leg it – to run away.

Leopard – degenerate thief (see thief).

Let's move – invitation for a walk.

Lie – go into hiding.

Lifey – life.

Loaf around – to do nothing.

Loch – victim of a crime; stupid person; wimp. Literally: Let One Cheat Him.

Lock-up – isolation ward.

Loon – lonely and well-off female.

Lukich – a crowbar.

M

Make mincemeat of – to destroy.

Malarkey – lie; fake.

Maza – defending someone in the criminal world.

Moniker - nickname.

Move – sell something; hit.

Move off – refuse to pay the debt.

Mushrooms - cartridges.

N

Needle – awl.

Nick – to steal.

O

Oar – spoon.

Our own – self-denomination of the thieves.

P

Painted – someone with many tattoos (see tat).

Paper – documents; letter.

Peasant – working inmate not connected to the criminal world.

Pike – improvised weapon made from common items.

Piss can – prison toilet.

Pocket boards - dominoes.

Pocket pics – playing cards.

Poison – properly made chifir' (see chifir').

Prayer book – deck of cards.

Profiteer – speculator.

Puppy – female thief; woman who illegally engages in sexual services.

Pussywaggoner - pimp.

R

Raddish – bad person.

Raspberry – den; one of the terms for criminal world.

Rat – someone who steals from his inmates, accomplices.

Razborka – settling a disagreement.

Rip-off – mugging.

Rub elbows – to be friends with; communicate.

Runover – aggressive provocation; demanding something.

S

Samovar – machine for producing moonshine; investigator.

Sha – be silent!Shadow – field investigator.

Shakedown – check of the cells

Shalman – snackbar.

Sham – something fake.

Shaman – to go out; to rob.

Shangkhai - outskirts.

Shank – knife (see shiv).

Sharashka – mess; a separate room.

Sheep – stupid person; fur coat.

Shibzdik - small.

Shiv – knife (see shank).

Shoot up – to inject drug with the help of a syringe.

Shover – bag.

Shot caller - member of the criminal elite (see Academician, blatnoy, thief).

Schukher – danger; alarm.

Skirt – to avoid the subject.

Sling - revolver.

Slaughterer – surgeon.

Slave away – to work.

Small timer – petty criminal.

Spike – syringe for drug injections.

Spoon master - cook.

Spring – be liberated from prison.

Stiffer – corpse.

Strides - trousers.

Suchter – pimp; informer.

T

Tat – tattoo.

Tatyanka - cudgel.

Take out – kill.

Tank – flask.

Terpila – crime victim.

Thief - member of the criminal elite (see academician, blatnoy, shot caller).

Thrash – bet up mercilessly.

Tickle – to check the pockets of a potential target.

Tiers – bunk beds.

Toad – immoral person; someone engaged in providing illegal sexual services.

Tour – visiting another city/ area with the purpose of committing a crime.

Trip – prison term.

Trollop - person who illegally engages in sexual services for payment (see fast woman, hooker, whore).

Strip – to rob.

U

Urkagan – criminal with a long record.

Use one's noodle - think.

V

Vat – mug.

Vertukhai – jailer; overseer.

W

Wedding – trial.

Whack – to kill; to hit.

Wheeler - driver.

Whistle – to lie.

Whore - person who illegally engages in sexual services for payment (see fast woman, hooker, trollop).

Watermelon – head.

Wetwork - murder.

X

Y

Yellow – gold; gold items.

Yoursh – mixture of beer and vodka.

Yushka – bed; blood.

Z

Zagor – a retarded mushroom-like form of life.

Zhigan – a hard-core criminal; repeat offender.

Zhlob – greedy person.

Zugunder – prison.

Zwirk – to spit through one's teeth.