1980 T. Lewis GBH 15: If anybody working in that particular branch of the business had walked in carrying a box of bent carbon-paper, he’d have been out on his arse and his cards slung out into the street after him.at out on one’s arse (adj.) under arse, n.
1980 T. Lewis GBH 22: ‘They were all arse about front [...] Beyond me’.at arse about face under arse, n.
1980 T. Lewis GBH 229: ‘[Y]ou’d been blacking him [...] because you happened to come across some pictures he had taken [...] with a fourteen-year-old.at black, v.
1980 T. Lewis GBH 165: ‘I expect she’s like the rest of the Seasonals; as reliable as a two-bob watch’.at two-bob watch, n.
1980 T. Lewis GBH 62: A brass here [i.e. outside London] would be highly-polished in a different way, to express her occupation, not to conceal it.at brass, n.2
1980 T. Lewis GBH 15: You don’t go down to the nearest watering hole after you’ve made your first million and tell the first clippie you set eyes on how you got it.at clippie, n.3
1980 T. Lewis GBH 5: ‘He put the collar on Arthur at quarter to seven’.at put the collar on (v.) under collar, n.
1980 T. Lewis GBH 233: ‘Mickey done it, Mickey copped for you. He did, he did, he copped for you’.at cop for, v.
1980 T. Lewis GBH 45: ‘Whoever’s creaming it, they’re being very clever [...] I’m buggered if I can see where.at cream, v.
1980 T. Lewis GBH 16: [I]t was three months before I discovered her hair was not its natural colour.at cuffs and collars (n.) under cuff, n.2
1980 T. Lewis GBH 18: ‘Why didn’t you get in touch before [...] all that shit started going down’.at go down, v.
1980 T. Lewis GBH 236: ‘Besides, it [i.e. a ‘blue’ film] was lesbian stuff. Which doesn’t mean to say I’m a dike’.at dyke, n.
1980 T. Lewis GBH 172: ‘[O]n the basis of the facts, the odds are on Mickey.’ ‘But not the form,’ I said.at form, n.1
1980 T. Lewis GBH 18: ‘How’s Jean?’ Collins asked. ‘Fuck that,’ I replied.at fuck that! (excl.) under fuck, v.
1980 T. Lewis GBH 117: ‘They’ve fucked off,’ I said. ‘That’s what. They’ve fucked off’.at fuck off, v.
1980 T. Lewis GBH 66: Of course it was academic, just part of a general geeing up process in our mind games.at gee (up), v.