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Soup job: Cracking a safe using nitroglycerine.
Spade: Name of a private detective or a black person.
Speakeasy/speak: A location where liquors and alcoholic beverages were sold illegally.
Specs: Eyeglasses.
Spill: Talk, inform, as in “Spill it, punk!”
Sporting lint: Empty pockets; no money.
Squidy: Sailor.
Squirting metal: Shooting a gun.
Stake: A bankroll.
Steady on: Take it easy, calm yourself.
Step off: To be hanged.
Taking It on the Lam