CROSS-DRUM. A drinking-place where thieves resort.
CROSS-FANNING. Picking a pocket with the arms folded across the chest. A knuck in the front rank of a crowd desiring to steal a watch from the pocket of a gentleman standing on either side of him, first folds his arms across his breast; and pretending to be intensely looking at some object before him, stretches out the arm next his victim, and by rapid movements of his fingers and hands excites his attention, and, while in this attitude, with the hand which is stretched across his own breast, he twists the watch from the other's pocket.
CROSSED. To meet another and pass him. "The swell moved as he crossed me," the gentleman bowed as he passed me.
CROW. The crow is the fellow that watches outside when his accomplices are inside, and gives them warning of the approach of danger.
CRUMEY. Fat; pockets full; plenty.
CRUMP. One who procures false witnesses.
CRUSHER. A policeman.
CUES. The points.
CUFFIN QUEERS. Magistrates.
CUFFIR. A man.