Gleaming pip

A worthless small-time thief or a pickpocket. It's considered an insult to both honest cutters and thieves who see themselves as a cut above the rest.

"Benny the Teen used to be a top shelf bandit, but now he's just a gleaming pip on a horse."

by Zed Numar September 10, 2021

Gurn

-To make a grotesque face; grimace.
-To make a ridiculous or unpleasant facial expression.
Scots dialect, variant of “grin” from Middle English “grine” from Old English “gryn”
Used in a sentence:

“Despite the cooking classes, her cooking always makes Mr. Pendleton gurn.”

by Zed Numar July 13, 2021

Bone-box

The mouth, named because of its teeth, fangs or whatever.

"Stop rattling your bone-box", is telling a berk to lay off the threats or bragging.

by Zed Numar July 19, 2021

Cony

A rube, or a generally naive berk. Someone easily peeled and bobbed. Victims of cony-catchers.

"That cony got ripped-off within an hour of getting off the bus to New York from Iowa, he had no street sense at all."

by Zed Numar July 25, 2021

Brick beast

Any very massive and ugly building.

"Every building produced by the Bauhaus Movement was just an ugly brick beast."

by Zed Numar July 20, 2021

Barkle

Nonsense, or something that would be laughably passed off as such.

"Trickle-down economics is just sheer barkle, cut taxes to the rich and they just shift the extra money to off-shore bank accounts."

by Zed Numar July 10, 2021

Birdcage

A cell, prison, or anything that compares to one.

He's in big birdcage now, he's doing 20 to life in a federal penitentiary.

by Zed Numar July 15, 2021