Heap/can: vehicle, usually a wheeler
Heat: pressure, usually from the brass.
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 individual and powered the body’s energy. All personal information is stored in its databanks. Erases nearly all info upon the individual’s death.
Hunter-killer/HK: flying drone deployed to lock on a target and destroy it
Jaw/bump gums/gab/: talk
Jamook: worthless, idiot, screw-up
Labcoat: scientist
Large: a thousand dibs, someone who’s loaded with cash
Lead/slugs/heat: bullets
Lead poisoning: to get shot
Mandroid: humanoid robot
Meat locker/slammer/cooler: jail
Medimech: mechanical doctoring unit. Capable of dealing with most injuries that don’t require specialized surgery.
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
Omerta: Mafia code of silence/in-house management of problems
On the square: dependable, trustworthy
Oobatz: insane, wild
Oyster fruit: pearls
Perp: perpetrator, criminal
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
Puttana: whore
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
Secret Service/SS: clandestine agency of the United Havens. Notorious for their ruthlessness and highly skilled agents.
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 mug who is marked for death.
Skid rogue: bum, loser
Skimmer: hovercraft automobile
Soldati: soldier
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
Tan aburrido: so boring
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.
United Havens/UH: Thirteen Havens located in the remaining territories of what used to be the United States.
Vaquero: cowboy
Wheeler: automobile
Wire: information, news
Yard: a hundred dibs
Zio: term of affection, uncle