Check your vocabulary for Law – Test your criminal slang

Test your Criminal Slang
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HOW GOOD ARE you at detective work? Below there are four conversations. The conversations include 14 slang words. The definitions of the words are explained under “Descriptions”. Read the conversations and use the context to match the words to the definitions.
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Conversation 1
Have you heard about Henry?
No. What?
He’s been nicked.
You’re joking. What happened?
He was blagging a bank with his brother and somebody grassed on them.
Who’s the nark?
Who knows? Henry’s got a lot of enemies.
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Conversation 2
What did he get?
Eight years.
Eight years inside! I thought you said he had a good brief.
Well, he thought he did.
Where’s he going to do it?
Isle of Wight.
Oh no. The screws in there are the worst in the world.
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Conversation 3
So, what have you got for me?
Rolex watches. Two hundred of them.
Are they hot?
What do you think? Would I come to a fence like you with them if they weren’t?
Leave them with me tonight and I’ll give you a price for them in the morning.
Leave it out. Do I look like a mug?
Sorry?
I’m surprised at you, trying a scam like that. I wasn’t born yesterday. I want a price now.
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Conversation 4
At one time I had 50 people selling heroin in clubs around the city.
Really? Didn’t you have any problem with the law?
No, they were all bent in those days. A bit of cash every month and they were happy.
So why did you open the supermarkets?
Originally it was a way to launder the drugs money. In the end it became more interesting to be legitimate.
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DEFINITIONS
1. _________= a buyer of stolen property.
2. _________= a lawyer.
3. _________= a person who is easily deceived.
4. _________= a prison guard.
5. _________= a trick.
6. __________= an informer
7. __________= corrupt.
8. __________= in prison
9. __________= stolen
10._________ = the police
11. _to nick___ = to arrest .
12. _________ = to hold up, to rob using weapons.
13. _________ = to inform the police
14. _________= to transfer illegally gained money to a normal bank account.
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ANSWERS
1.a fence - 2. a brief - 3. a mug - 4. a screw - 5. a scam - 6. a nark - 7. bent - 8. inside - 9. hot - 10. the law - 11. to nick - 12. to blag - 13. to grass - 14. to launder money