Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. what is going on, the situation, ‘the score’, a plan.

1992		V. Headley Yardie 25: Let me take care of my runnins, me an’ you is safe.
1999		(con. 1979–80) A. Wheatle Brixton Rock (2004) 47: I had to give her some tender care, you know the runnings.
2000		N. Barlay Crumple Zone 80: I did know he was doing his certain different runnngs, as he’d say.

2. business.

1983		T. White Catch a Fire 265: It was not that anybody was concocting any funny runnings with anybody else.
2000		J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 112: Not you personally, but that outfit who do your runnins.
2004		Skinnyman ‘Love’s Gone from the Streets’ 🎵 Cat’s who just want to set you up, make all your runnings come unstuck.