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[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook] ‘I mean, she’s a bit of all right, is old Kate. Sorry to see her go’.
at bit of all right, a, phr.
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook] Some blokes thought it turned a bird on, bringing them in to mingle with the gingers.
at ginger (beer), n.
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook] Bingo! Suddenly she’s committed.
at bingo!, excl.
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook] [H]e was so obviously putting on the Mr Sincere bit it was painful.
at bit, n.1
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook] ‘Some of those bitches [i.e. the police] are just dying to bust me’.
at bitch, n.1
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook] ’I’m not exactly a blue-eyed boy down there’.
at blue-eyed boy, n.
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook] ‘He likes camping it up’.
at camp about (v.) under camp, v.2
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook] Spent hours in the can with it [i.e. a lingerie catalogue].
at can, n.1
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook] ‘They all got carpeted’.
at carpet, v.
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook]‘If you’re in the cart, I’m in the cart’.
at in the cart under cart, n.1
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook] ‘I don’t want him thinking I was the one to drop him in the cart’.
at in the cart under cart, n.1
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook] Well, I didn’t actually kill her, but [...] I’m for the chop just the same.
at chop, n.1
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook] ‘You couldn’t really expect the boys in blue to cock a deaf ’un, could you?’.
at cock a deaf ’un (v.) under cock, v.4
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook] [F]emale masturbation machines that were obsolete and boring the minute you came.
at come, v.1
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook]‘What for?’ ‘Don’t come that. You know what for’.
at come, v.3
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook] ‘No drag.’ ‘Not even when we get home?’.
at drag, n.1
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook] Peggy knew I used the place from time to time to put the drop on clients.
at put the drop on (v.) under drop, n.1
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook] But they [i.e. adulteries] meant nothing to Peter. Just… what do they call it now… ego-tripping?
at ego trip, v.
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook]‘Bet you can’t fetch [...] I can,’ said Peter, ‘I can shoot three feet’.
at fetch, v.1
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook] ‘I do like your get-up, Mr Froy. I really do. Real gear stuff’.
at gear, adj.1
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook] ‘How do you mean, do yourself a bit of good?’.
at do (oneself) a bit of good (v.) under good, n.
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook] Froy is keen to get the goodies on Camille’s Playmate of the Month.
at goodies, n.
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook] ‘Greasing bastard,’ said Croft.
at grease, v.1
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook] But the next time you got a hard on it was always straight to the toilet for a quick one off the wrist.
at hard-on, n.
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook] The Ferry Boat was full of Hoo-ray Henrys. [...] The kind of local the Hoo-rays referred to as Their Little Pub on the River.
at hooray (Henry), n.
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook] ‘I’ve got time for a quick jar’.
at jar, n.1
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook] [I]f you didn’t [...] adopt the right attiude, all that junk [etc].
at junk, n.1
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook] Maybe he was kinky for kids.
at kinky, adj.
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook] ‘And so I’d go and knock somebody over just on the off-chance that they may remember your face’.
at knock over, v.
[UK] T. Lewis Plender [ebook] ‘Me mam’ll leather hell out of me’.
at leather, v.
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