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[[caption-width-right:350:''Cant'' you understand them?]]
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* In ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' episode "[[Recap/CheersS1E19 Pick a Con, Any Con]]", the gang asks con artist Harry the Hat about George, a different con artist who ripped off Coach. Harry loses them with his thieves' cant.
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* In ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' episode "[[Recap/CheersS1E19 "[[Recap/CheersS1E19PickAConAnyCon Pick a Con, Any Con]]", the gang asks con artist Harry the Hat about George, a different con artist who ripped off Coach. Harry loses them with his thieves' cant.
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* ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'' uses occasional bits of Victorian thieves' cant in some of its stories and item descriptions, such as referring to TheCon as a "flash lay", or a set of lockpicks as "kifers".
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** Another sketch focuses on a new recruit to a Victorian criminal gang similarly struggling with their language, until one of them blurts out “We’re planning a burglary.” [[spoiler: Cue UndercoverCopReveal]].
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* In ''[[Film/OceansEleven Ocean's Twelve]]'', Danny and Rusty engage in this with their contact Matsui. A confused Linus decides to get in by [[WaxingLyrical quoting the lyrics to]] Music/LedZeppelin's "Kashmir". The others inform him that he just [[MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels called Matsui's niece a whore]], but later admit that the whole thing was just an elaborate prank.
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* In ''[[Film/OceansEleven Ocean's Twelve]]'', Danny and Rusty engage in this with their contact Matsui. A confused Linus decides to get in by [[WaxingLyrical quoting the lyrics to]] lyrics]] to Music/LedZeppelin's "Kashmir". The others inform him that he just [[MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels called Matsui's niece a whore]], but later admit that the whole thing was just an elaborate prank.
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* Cockney Rhyming Slang may have started out as this.
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* Cockney Rhyming Slang BritishEnglish/CockneyRhymingSlang may have started out as this.
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* Present in the ''Literature/GentlemanBastard'' book series, which also includes an intricate sign language disguised as innocuous hand movements so not only do outsiders not know what is being communicated, they don't even know communication is taking place.
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* Present in the ''Literature/GentlemanBastard'' book series, which also includes an intricate sign language disguised as innocuous hand movements so not only do outsiders not know what is being communicated, they ''they don't even know communication is taking place.place''.
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* During TheGreatDepression, traveling vagrants developed a ''written'' cant called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobo#Hobo_signs_.28symbols.29 hobo signs]] to alert other vagrants of certain services, conditions, and warnings. For example, they'd write a symbol on a surface or wall to indicate that a local was willing to provide a place to sleep for the night.
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* During TheGreatDepression, traveling vagrants developed a ''written'' cant called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobo#Hobo_signs_.28symbols.29 org/wiki/Hobo#Hobo_signs_and_graffiti hobo signs]] to alert other vagrants of certain services, conditions, and warnings. For example, they'd write a symbol on a surface or wall to indicate that a local was willing to provide a place to sleep for the night.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Nary and his gang, including his daughter Sette, use a fair amount of real thieves' cant such as jukrum, and their name Frummagem is inspired from a bit meaning hanged or strangled--Fummagemmed.
