DIESEL UNIVERSE SLANG DICTIONARY
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Rags: Clothes
Ranked: Observed, watched, given the once-over
Rap: Criminal charge
Rappers: Fakes, set-ups
Rat: Inform
Rate: To be good, to count for something
Rationed (as in: Hi sugar, are you rationed?): going steady
Rats and mice: Dice, i.e. craps
Rattler: Train
Red-light: To eject from a car or train
Redhot: Some sort of criminal
Reefers: Marijuana cigarettes
Rhino: Money
Right: Adjective indicating quality
Ringers: Fakes
Ritz : Stuck-up
Ritzy: Elegant
Ritzy Burg : Not classy
Rock of Ages : Any woman over 30 years of age
Rod: Gun
Roscoe: Gun
Rub-out: A killing
Rube: Bumpkin, easy mark
Rug cutters: dancers
Rug Hopper : Young man who never takes a girl out. A parlor hound
Rumble, the: The news