STIR. A crowd; a fire.
STOGGER. A pickpocket.
STONE PITCHER. Sing Sing.
STOP. A detective officer.
STOP LAY. Two or more well-dressed pickpockets go into a fashionable quiet street and promenade singly until they select a person that will answer their purpose; one of them stops the person and inquires the direction to a place somewhat distant. On being informed of the route he should take, he pretends not to exactly understand his informant, who, getting a little more interested in his desire to be explicit, draws closer to the inquirer. At about this point, one or both the others walk up and in an instant the amiable individual is minus some part of his movable property. The above practice is what is termed the "stop lay."
STOW YOUR WID. Be silent.
STRAMMEL. Straw; hay.
STRANGER. A guinea.
STRAW-MAN. False bail.
STRETCH. One year.