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[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] I couldn’t really give a fuck about anything at the moment.
at give a fuck, v.
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] The two boys had fuck-all proof and they went away pissed off.
at fuck-all, adj.
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] I can feel an auld pony and trap coming on. So I just sit on me piss-pot in the corner and let nature take its course.
at pony (and trap), n.
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] [T]his flood of baby sick [...] splatters across the floor, all over the screw’s rhythm and blues and up his trouser legs.
at rhythm and blues, n.
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] I’d been on the rock ‘n’ roll since I left school, didn’t even want a fuckin job.
at rock and roll, n.
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] Fuck bosses and career ladders and stress and kissing some suit’s arse every day.
at kiss someone’s arse, v.
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] ‘That’s the way we work things in here, share and share alike, help each other, all pull together.’ My arse, it is.
at my arse! (excl.) under arse, n.
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] The Exorcist [...] had been banned everywhere, but somehow some film club or other was allowed to show it. Those arty-farty sorts can get around anything, you know.
at arty-farty, adj.
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] ‘Oh, sorry, I must have got it [i.e. a piece of information] arseways’.
at assways (adj.) under ass, n.
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] [A] bunch of altar boys who were knocking it back in the vestry and were pissed at Mass.
at knock back, v.
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] [H]e put in for early release, built up his hopes and then got knocked back.
at knock back, v.
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] ‘If the screws come in and find you like this, they’ll know you’ve had a bad trip’.
at bad trip (n.) under bad, adj.
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] Soon I was shooting up any time I had the money for a ten-pound bag.
at bag, n.1
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] The only excuse they need to knock the bollix out of you is that you’re from Dublin.
at knock the ballocks out of (v.) under ballocks, n.
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] He’s just not good enough. He’d chance his arm right enough – or rather mine – but he’d make a complete dog’s bollix of it [i.e. a complex tattoo].
at dog’s ballocks, n.
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] ‘I don’t give a bollix if they put me in the pad’.
at not give a ballocks (v.) under ballocks, n.
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] Birds migrate in the winter to some place where they’re not gonna be freezing their balls off.
at balls, n.
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] I barfed again, but I still loved. Soon I was shooting up any time I had the money for a ten-pound bag.
at barf, v.
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] I hear whimpering coming out of Bucko’s cell. The lads must be beating the shite out of him.
at beat the shit out of, v.
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] You’ve got Aids. You’re a bender. End of story.
at bender, n.1
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] Look, I’ve never been with a man in me life. Well, then, how do you know you’re not bent? How can you know unless you try it?
at bent, adj.
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] Old Bill decided to clamp down on inner city crime.
at Old Bill, n.
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] Sure, it was obvious to anyone with two eyes in their head that he was out of his bin.
at out of one’s bin (adj.) under bin, n.
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] I’ve never been so happy to see a bird. I’ve never been so excited about seeing a babby either.
at bird, n.1
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] He never seemed to flash any of the sponds he claimed to earned from various ‘job’ and ‘blags’.
at blag, n.
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] ‘[I]t’s instinct [...] being able to spot a switch when it was going down, spot a blag, an opening, an opportunity’.
at blag, n.
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] [A]ltar wine. Six bleedin’ bottles of the stuff.
at bleeding, adj.
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] I sing to the brown powder on the table. [...] Liked a bit of blow himself, he did. Nesta Robert Marley, musical genius and druggie.
at blow, n.3
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] The guy gets on the blower to the man on the front gate.
at blower, n.2
[Ire] P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] [E]ither we were bombed out of it or it was just after we’d done over some poor cunt to get money to buy smack.
at bombed out, adj.1
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