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Glossary
So you’re new in town. Yeah, I can tell. Well you’ve come by the right mug for the wire on this place. Don’t wanna stick out like a nun at a cathouse, do ya? Thought not. So you might wanna get down on the lingo around here. You probably guessed folks in New Haven speak a little differently than the other Havens. While this isn’t required reading, here’s a quick rundown you can reference in case you get a bit mixed up. That way if a mug tells you to rotate your heels or else he’ll fit you for a New Haven trench coat, then you’ll know what he’s gabbing about, pipe that? Here goes:
Ace/chump/Killer /Mack: nicknames for a man
Bag or tag: Nimrod terms for live or dead capture
Barber: talk
Bâtard: bastard
Bent: angry, upset, out of sorts
Berries/lettuce/cabbage/bread: money
Bing ward: segregation cells, solitary
Biogun: an expensive firearm powered by the user’s body via cables inserted in the forearm or into a holoband.
Bioroid: term for humans enhanced by bio-genetic implants that expand the use of their brain beyond normal capacity.
Bogart: a fedora
Boozehound: drunk person
Borgata: Mob, Mafia, organized crime family
Bracelets: handcuffs
Brass/feds/fuzz/button boys/boys in black: cops
Broad: a woman, usually an unattractive one
Bruno: bodyguard
Bum: Useless
Bunk: nonsense, foolishness
Butter and egg, fat cat: rich, loaded
Buy the farm/bite the big one: die
Canary/songbird: female singer
Capeesh: understand, comprehend
Capo: Mafia boss, family head
Cataclysm: a period of time when most life on Earth was destroyed by environmental and nuclear forces
Cathouse: brothel
Cement shoes: cement blocks poured around an unlucky sap’s feet. Once the cement cures, the sap is tossed in the river to drown.
Chew: eat
Chin music, skull music: the sounds made when someone is punched in the face or head
Chin up: check out, investigate. Also means to talk.
Chisel/flimflam/rib up: frame, set up
Choppers, pearls: teeth
Chopper squad/trouble boys: hired guns
Climb your thumb: go to hell
Clip/plug/rub out/smoke/zotz: kill
Clip joint: high-class nightclub
Coot/codger: old man
Crab: cash out
Crooner: male singer
Crop: everything, all there is
Daisy: effeminate man
Dame/moll/dish/looker: nicknames for a woman, usually an attractive one
Darb: good, excellent, high quality
Datacom: a tiny earpiece synched to the holoband and used to make phone calls
Down on the ups: when life sucks
Dormy/laying dormy: laying low, hiding out
Dibcard: a preloaded card for transferring dibs from one account to another
Dibs: currency
Dive/can house: low class restaurant or nightclub
Drop a dime/sing/squeal: Snitch to the cops
Duck soup/lead pipe cinch: easy
Egg/noodle: head
Evaporator: machine that instantly dries clothing, usually installed in doorways
Elbows checked: arrested
Feed the fishes/swim with the fishes: drowned or tossed in the river after death
Fils de pute: bastard, son of a bitch
Floater: flying automobile
Flogger: trench coat
Floozy/hussy/skater: a dame who likes to spread it around.
Flophouse: hideout
Focosa: hot-blooded, passionate.
Frail: old woman
Fuggetaboutit: an expression that covers a lot of different meanings.
Gasper/smoke: cigarette
Gems/peepers: eyes
Giggle juice, hard juice: alcohol
Glad rags: expensive clothing
Gonzo/jingle-brained: crazy
Goon/dropper/hardhead: hired thug
Grift: con
Grifter: con artist
Grill/tighten the screws: interrogate
Haven: city-sized constructs built to preserve life during the Cataclysm
Hophead: drug addict
Hosers/sky hosers: fire floaters deployed to extinguish flames
Heap/can: vehicle, usually a wheeler
Heat: pressure, usually from the brass.
Heater/bean shooter/cannon: firearm
Healed: packing a gun
Heel-toe/dust out/breeze/rotate heels: leave, exit
High pillow/high hat: high society, top dog, filthy rich
Holoband: computerized instrument worn around the wrist, uniquely synched to the individual and powered the body’s energy. All personal information is stored in its databanks. Erases nearly all info upon the individual’s death.
Hunter-killer/HK: flying drone deployed to lock on a target and destroy it
Jaw/bump gums/gab/: talk
Jamook: worthless, idiot, screw-up
Labcoat: scientist
Large: a thousand dibs, someone who’s loaded with cash
Lead/slugs/heat: bullets
Lead poisoning: to get shot
Mandroid: humanoid robot
Meat locker/slammer/cooler: jail
Medimech: mechanical doctoring unit. Capable of dealing with most injuries that don’t require specialized surgery.
Mech gun: mechanized firearm that fires specialized rounds
Mug: man, or a man’s face
Nance: effeminate man
New Haven Blues: death
New Haven trench coat: coffin
Nimrod/triggerman: bounty hunter and assassin rolled into one
Nix: cancel, quit
No kick: no problem –I got no kick with that
Omerta: Mafia code of silence/in-house management of problems
On the square: dependable, trustworthy
Oobatz: insane, wild
Oyster fruit: pearls
Perp: perpetrator, criminal
Picjector: holographic entertainment system
Pipe that: do you understand?
Plug/clip/throw lead/clap/spit lead/fog/haze/hose/spray/squeeze off: shoot a gun
Pro skirt/chippy/skater: prostitute, although ‘skater’ can also refer to a dame who gives it up easy
Puttana: whore
Rags: clothes, outfit
Rube/mark/sap: sucker or patsy, someone easily rolled up on, although ‘mark’ can also mean a clue
Scattergun: mech-powered shotgun
Score: loot, payoff, important info
Secret Service/SS: clandestine agency of the United Havens. Notorious for their ruthlessness and highly skilled agents.
Shamus: detective, usually an inept one
Shoot the woo: sexual relations
Shylock: loan shark
Skate around: sex with multiple partners
Skel: short for ‘skeleton’. Reference to a good for nothing mug who is marked for death.
Skid rogue: bum, loser
Skimmer: hovercraft automobile
Soldati: soldier
Stiff: corpse, body
Stoolie: snitch that takes bribes for info
Streetsweepers: android storm troopers deployed to indiscriminately kill everything at a pinpointed location.
Synoid: synthetic humanoid
Tan aburrido: so boring
Tesla cells: electromagnetic fusion battery units
Thompson: mech-powered Tommy gun
Ticker: heart
Tip your mitts/spill: show your hand, give up the info
Trip for biscuits: waste of time
Troubleshooter: freelance o
perator. Duties vary, from investigation to protection to generally getting folks outta jams.
United Havens/UH: Thirteen Havens located in the remaining territories of what used to be the United States.
Vaquero: cowboy
Wheeler: automobile
Wire: information, news
Yard: a hundred dibs
Zio: term of affection, uncle
You got the wire by now, right? Now get your mug onto the story before you get flimflammed into some jingle-brained grift and end up catching a case of the New Haven Blues, see?
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