DIESEL UNIVERSE SLANG DICTIONARY
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Sap: A dumb guy, See "floorflusher."
Sap poison: Getting hit with a sap
Savvy: Get me? Understand?
Sawbuck: $10 bill (a double sawbuck is a $20 bill)
Scandal : A short term for Scandal Walk
Scandaler : A dance floor fullback. The interior of a dreadnaught hat, Piccadilly shoes with open plumbing, size 13
Scat (as in 'Oh Scat'): Shit
Scene: situation
Schnozzle: Nose
Scram (out): Leave
Scratch: Money
Scratcher: Forger
Seetie : Anybody a flapper hates
Send over: Send to jail
Shamus: (Private) detective
Share crop: sexually promiscuous girl
Sharpshooter : One who spends much and dances well
Sharper: A swindler or sneaky person
Sheba: A woman with sex appeal
Sheik: A man with sex appeal
Shells: Bullets
Shifter : A grafter
Shiv: Knife
Show Case : Rich man's wife with jewels
Shylock: Loanshark
Shyster: Lawyer
Sing: Make a confession
Sip : Flapper term for female Hopper
Sister: Woman
Skate around: To be of easy virtue
Skid rogue: A bum who can't be trusted
Skirt: Woman
Slant, Get a: Take a look
Slat : See "Highjohn"; "Goof"
Sleuth: Detective
Slimp : Cheapskate or "one way guy"
Slug: a bullet or to knock unconscious
Smith Brothers : Guys who never cough up
Smoked: Drunk
Smoke Eater : A girl cigarette user
Smooth: good, agreeable, Guy who does not keep his word
Snake : To call a victim with vampire arms
Snake-charmer : A female bootlegger
Snap a cap: Shout, or get angry
Snatch: Kidnap
Sneeze: Take
Snitch: An informer, or to inform
Snooper: Detective
Snugglepup : A man fond of petting and petting parties
Soak: To pawn
Sod Buster : An undertaker
Soitently: Sure!
Sock: Punch
Soup: Nitroglycerine
Soup job: To crack a safe using nitroglycerine
Speakeasy: An illicit bar selling bootleg liquor
Spiffy: Looking elegant
Spill: Talk, inform
Spinach: Money
Spitting: Talking
Spread Out!: Get out of the way! Give me some room! Stop crowding me!
Square: Honest
Squeeze: a female companion or girlfriend
Squirt metal: Shoot bullets
Stander : Victim of a female grafter
Static : Conversations that mean nothing
Statts : Conversation that means nothing
Step off: To be hanged
Stiff: A corpse
Stilts : Legs
Sting: Culmination of a con game
Stompers: shoes
Stool-pigeon: Informer
Stoolie: Stool-pigeon
Strangler : What a spendthrift isn't
Striders: trousers
Strike Breaker : A young woman who goes with her friend's "Steady" while there is a coolness.
Stuck On: Having a crush on
Stutter-tub : Motor boat
Sucker: Someone ripe for a grifter's scam
Sugar: Money
Swan : Glide gracefully
Swanky: Ritzy
Sweetie : Anybody she hates
Swell: Wonderful