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    CONSTABLE CROWE’S SLANG DICTIONARY

    Jun 17, 2019 2 minutes

    onstable Cornelius Crowe joined the Victorian Police Force in 1880. Throughout his time working as a constable, he compiled a list of words and phrases used by the criminal classes and, in 1895, published them in a small dictionary titled . While he included ‘Australian’ in the title, he stressed that the words were not necessarily invented in Australia, with many of them

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