Highway, the: Ratcliffe Highway, a mile-long road in the East End of London which, by the nineteenth century, had become infamous for its resorts of crime, prostitution, ratting and dog-fighting
Hook it, macaroni!: Get off (the stage), leave. Macaroni was a term often applied to Italians, or people who were of a Mediterranean appearance
Last Confession: sold by street-vendors at public executions, these purported to be the life story and crimes told by the guilty offender
Lumper: a man who loads and unloads ships
Make a fist of Bordeaux!: see Draw claret!
Methody: Methodist, disapproving of the theatre Newgate jig: a hanging
Talking fish: a sea lion, frequently found in penny exhibitions
Three-legged mare: the gallows
Sheeney: a Jew
Stretched: to be hung