DIESEL UNIVERSE SLANG DICTIONARY
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Tail: Shadow or follow
Take a powder: Leave
Take on: Eat
Take for a Ride: Drive off with someone in order to bump them off
Take the air: Leave
Take the bounce: To get kicked out
Take the fall for: Accept punishment for
That's the crop: That's all of it
They : Refers to objecting parents
Threads: clothes
Three-spot: Three-year jail term
Throw lead: Shoot bullets
Ticket: P.I. license
Tiger milk: Some sort of liquor
Tighten the screws: Put pressure on somebody
Tin: Badge
Tip a few: To have a few drinks
Toddler : A finale hopper's faster sister
Togged to the bricks: wearing best clothes
Tomato: Pretty woman, Good looking girl with no brains
Tooting the wrong ringer: Asking the wrong person
Torpedoes: Gunmen
Trap: Mouth
Trigger man: Man whose job is to use a gun
Trotzky (sic) : Old lady with a moustache and chin whiskers
Trouble boys: Gangsters
Twist: Woman
Two bits: $25, or 25 cents