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[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 220: [of a Chinese restaurant] ‘They’re fucking lovely, aren’t they. A1’.
at A-1, adj.
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 96: [in fig. use] Alan Ryan decided to up the ante.
at up the ante (v.) under ante, n.
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 221: ‘We’re gonna buy a nice bit of applejack [...] Applejack is a slang term for crack cocaine’.
at applejack, n.3
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 61: Gilroy [...] was still knocking around Dublin.
at knock around, v.
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 248: ‘I’m getting it up the arse off my man [...] He’s giving me death’.
at take it up the arse under arse, n.
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 240: ‘Now, fuck off. I’ve a pain in my fucking hole with you’.
at pain in the arse, n.
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 168: Alan Wilson went ballistic following his cousin’s murder.
at go ballistic (v.) under ballistic, adj.
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 230: ‘I put it into first [gear]’ [...] ‘You did in your bollix put it into first, you fucking mongo, ye!’.
at in one’s ballocks under ballocks, n.
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 84: They ’hadn’t the balls’ to go up against the biggest drug dealers.
at balls, n.
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 237: ‘You’re out of your bleedin’ banana, pal [...] out of your bleedin’ box’.
at out of one’s banana (adj.) under banana, n.
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 255: He had been caught so bang to rights.
at bang to rights (adv.) under bang, adv.
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 226: ‘The Old Bill, watching to see who you’re meeting [...] all that shit’.
at Old Bill, n.
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 224: ‘Better not leave me stuck with these for the whole bleeding day’.
at bleeding, adj.
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 225: ‘There’s a bloke shooting people’.
at bloke, n.
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 84: Hunt’s bootlegging talents had not gone unnoticed.
at bootleg, v.
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 83: The [...] bouncers were also instructed to begin charging drug dealers [...] to operate in certain nightspots.
at bouncer, n.1
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 237: ‘You’re out of your bleedin’ banana, pal [...] out of your bleedin’ box’.
at out of one’s box (adj.) under box, n.3
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 221: ‘We’ll buy a nice bit of brown [...] between us’.
at brown, n.
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 253: Pay-as-you-go or ‘burner’ phones.
at burner, n.1
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 170: A furious bust-up with a local criminal.
at bust-up, n.
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 230: ‘You’re just flying, Joey [...] Just fucking chill out’.
at chill (out), v.
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 71: [A] chipper in Drimnagh.
at chipper, n.4
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 113: ‘Yer man [...] clattered him across the side of his head’.
at clatter, v.2
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 16: Since he was now ‘clean’ Coddington was unable to provide [cash].
at clean, adj.
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 100: Eric and Keith [...] were cokeheads.
at cokehead (n.) under coke, n.1
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 1: A young, coked-up hitman desperate to impress.
at coked (up), adj.
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 119: A year in custody had not softened Wilson’s cough.
at soften one’s cough (v.) under cough, n.
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 238: ‘I had a bit of craic with D last night’.
at crack, n.1
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 250: ‘Ah, man, we can crack him a hundred times’.
at crack, v.1
[Ire] Breen & Conlon Hitmen 244: Trying to force open [the] security doors with a crowbar would be a ‘kamikaze job.’ [...] ‘[G]oing over with a crower [...] is fuckin’ crazy’.
at crower, n.
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