Who is the six? The jargon of thieves

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2018-04-02 03:24:08

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Everyone knows that the six - person errands of the higher authority in exchange for his favor. The term is used in the criminal lexicon, but recently circulated among people unrelated to the crime. There is a verb "gears", meaning "to run errands", "please", "wait".

sixThere are so-called wool - prisoners, posing as the main and authoritative, but actually uchinada so-called chaos on their own or at the request of the administration. In a sense, they are also sixes, as any assistance and cooperation with the administration of the prison gives an inmate a chance at parole. As a rule, coveted PAROLE they don't get, because the administration of the colony itself does not respect the sixes because of their inconsistency of moral principles.

Who is the bitch?

Why his subordinates call it sixes? The term comes from the lowest card suits - sixes. One of the most common strategies in a card game "Durak" is throwing all of his sixes in the beginning of the game. Thus, we see some allusion to the so-called cannon fodder - sixes no values, they just have to do what they are told, look for trouble at the first request. Despite the fact that the term was originally used among thieves, bandits and other criminals, today they are actively using and ordinary people.

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Alternative version of the origin of the word

Who is this bitch? According to another version, the term takes its roots from the criminal world. Sixes in the 19th century was called the young guys serve in restaurants. A nickname they received again for the same card that kings and aces on serves. Some say that on the day of the sixes were paying 6 cents, from there the nickname. Restaurants and taverns were a place of frequent gathering of the local criminal underworld, thieves and cheats, who took over this term, common in their circles. Who is the six in Russia 19th century? Servant, errand boy, minion.

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Who is the six?

To date, there is no clear distinction in this matter. So, who is six? The meaning of that word in the criminal world is more or less clear. Among people unrelated to the criminal world, six call any man out of fear and subservience fulfilling every whim of his boss, respected friend, etc.

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Very often six does this in order to get away from his benefactor some privileges. As a rule, their only privilege is a warm place near by the authority. The authority does not value their sixes and using them to achieve some of their goals. Six can be an office clerk waiting for a promotion and licking the heels of his boss, and the teenager from a dysfunctional family, trying to stick to street credibility. Sometimes erroneously referred to as informers, but they no mandatory connection with the sixes don't have. Not every rat is six, and every six - Snitch.


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