Thief's dialogue.

[cubanseapower]

I'm trying to write about a theif, a pickpocket to be specific, but I'm trying to figure out how a thief would talk. Like their dialogue.
For instance: instead of arrested they would probably say busted, or instead of credit cards they would probably say plastic, et cetera.
(I got these from the wonderful

Comments

[lunatic59]

Too much jargon will make them a caricature of what you are trying to represent. A thief or pickpocket would have a vocabulary suitable to their social, economic and environmental situation.

[cubanseapower]

Thank you! :)