Heater/bean shooter/cannon: firearm
Healed: packing a gun
Heel-toe/dust out/breeze/rotate heels: leave, exit
High pillow/high hat: high society, top dog, filthy rich
Holoband: computerized instrument worn around the wrist, uniquely synched to the person and powered the body’s energy. All personal information is stored in its databanks.
Hunter-killer/HK: flying drone deployed to lock on a target and destroy it
Jaw/bump gums/gab/: talk
Labcoat: scientist
Large: a thousand dibs, someone who’s loaded with cash
Lead/slugs/heat: bullets
Lead poisoning: to get shot
Meat locker/slammer/cooler: jail
Mech gun: mechanized firearm that fires specialized rounds
Mug: man, or a man’s face
Nance: effeminate man
New Haven Blues: death
New Haven trench coat: coffin
Nimrod/triggerman: bounty hunter and assassin rolled into one
Nix: cancel, quit
No kick: no problem — I got no kick with that
On the square: dependable, trustworthy
Oyster fruit: pearls
Picjector: holographic entertainment system
Pipe that: do you understand?
Plug/clip/throw lead/clap/spit lead/fog/haze/hose/spray/squeeze off: shoot a gun
Pro skirt/chippy/skater: prostitute, although ‘skater’ can also refer to a dame who gives it up easy
Rags: clothes, outfit
Rube/mark/sap: sucker or patsy, someone easily rolled up on, although ‘mark’ can also mean a clue
Scattergun: mech-powered shotgun
Score: loot, payoff, important info
Shamus: detective, usually an inept one
Shoot the woo: sexual relations
Shylock: loan shark
Skate around: sex with multiple partners
Skel: short for ‘skeleton’. Reference to a good for nothing rube who is marked for death.
Skimmer: hovercraft automobile
Stiff: corpse, body
Stoolie: snitch that takes bribes for info
Streetsweepers: android storm troopers deployed to indiscriminately kill everything at a pinpointed location.
Synoid: synthetic humanoid
Tesla cells: electromagnetic fusion battery units
Thompson: mech-powered Tommy gun
Ticker: heart
Tip your mitts/spill: show your hand, give up the info
Trip for biscuits: waste of time
Troubleshooter: freelance operator. Duties vary, from investigation to protection to generally getting folks outta jams
Wheeler: automobile
Wire: information, news
Yard: a hundred dibs