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[UK] Intelligent Life Spring 76/2: He has spent barely any time Down Under.
at down under, n.
[UK] Intelligent Life Spring 97/2: Right-wing bloggers said he was a ‘shrieking fag’.
at fag, n.4
[UK] Intelligent Life Spring 96/1: He [...] would solve the faggot problem by urging gay men not to act like fags.
at faggot, n.1
[UK] Intelligent Life Spring 92/2: He became a self-confessed swot, obsessively throwing himself into his schoolwork.
at swot, n.
[UK] Intelligent Life Spring 77/2: His attention has supposedly shifted across the water to his new toy, the Wall Street Journal.
at water, the, n.
[UK] Intelligent Life Spring 142/1: Fancy a brew?
at brew, n.
[UK] Intelligent Life Spring 125/1: The big bugs in the press kept promoting me as the mouthpiece [...] of a generation.
at big bug (n.) under bug, n.1
[UK] Intelligent Life Spring 125/1: I was more a cowpuncher than a Pied Piper.
at cow-puncher, n.
[UK] Intelligent Life Late Summer 132/1: Everybody broke the rules [...] but if you were ‘dobbed in’ by a ‘reliable source’ you were in trouble.
at dob (in), v.
[UK] Intelligent Life Nov./Dec. 116/1: Fewer ordinary retailers are stocking the basic Shaeffers and Parker Vectors that Joe Sixpack used once.
at Joe Six-pack (n.) under joe, n.1
[UK] Intelligent Life Spring 142/1: It Ain’t Me Babe, 1964. A delicate kiss-off.
at kiss-off, n.
[UK] Intelligent Life Spring 128/2: It wasn’t the upright types who defied the Nazis: it was the cranks, the kooks.
at kook, n.
[UK] Intelligent Life Late Summer 38/1: He is a reasonably tolerant guy, but something about greens [...] gives him ‘he pip’.
at give someone the pip (v.) under pip, n.1
[UK] Intelligent Life Spring 44/2: To join the VW tribe you can buy a rust bucket and restore it.
at rust bucket (n.) under rust, n.
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