2009 L. McIlvanney All the Colours 11: Rumours and smears and did-you-hear-the-one-about so-and-so.at so-and-so, n.
2009 L. McIlvanney All the Colours 293: ‘How do [you] like them apples, Mr Lyons?’.at how do you like them apples?, phr.
2009 L. McIlvanney All the Colours 123: Fucking arse-piece!’ He [...] gave the finger [...] to a minicab that cut us up.at arsepiece (n.) under arse, n.
2009 L. McIlvanney All the Colours 120: ‘[F]irst of the day’ my arse.at my arse! (excl.) under arse, n.
2009 L. McIlvanney All the Colours 89: [The] stink of slops and stale baccy, pish, disinfectant.at bacca, n.
2009 L. McIlvanney All the Colours 200: I could have used a drink. A ball of Bush, a pint of stout.at ball, n.2
2009 L. McIlvanney All the Colours 189: ‘Don’t lie down to her, Norman [...] show a bit of balls, that’s all. What can she do?’.at balls, n.
2009 L. McIlvanney All the Colours 261: [T]he universal who-me shrug of the bang-to-rights busted.at bang to rights (adv.) under bang, adv.
2009 L. McIlvanney All the Colours 115: I only met him once – bigfooted him, in fact [...] When a story grows [...] a paper wants its own guy on the case [...] and the stringer gets bumped.at bigfoot (v.) under big, adj.
2009 L. McIlvanney All the Colours 310: ‘You’re stood there with your pint and [...] then, bingo, your brains are on the pavement’.at bingo!, excl.
2009 L. McIlvanney All the Colours 185: ‘I once saw a lassie near there, chained to the railings. Shaven head, the full bit’.at bit, n.1
2009 L. McIlvanney All the Colours 84: ‘Hey, he looks like a pimp now [...] We’re his bitches’.at bitch, n.1
2009 L. McIlvanney All the Colours 101: The Blacknecks were tight, Blacknecks never talked.at Blackneck, n.
2009 L. McIlvanney All the Colours 308: [T]his blowhard at the bar starts riding the guy, cracking funnies.at blowhard, n.1
2009 L. McIlvanney All the Colours 113: The Crown Liquor Saloon. The one Belfast boozer that everyone knows.at boozer, n.
2009 L. McIlvanney All the Colours 190: ‘He’d brass it out. He never said it anyway’.at brass it out (v.) under brass, n.1
2009 L. McIlvanney All the Colours 301: [T]he story was bullshit. It was a bullshit story.at bullshit, adj.
2009 L. McIlvanney All the Colours 301: [T]he story was bullshit. It was a bullshit story.at bullshit, n.