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Billy Rags [ebook] All that had happened was that someone had ballocksed up the hook.at ballocks (up), v.
Billy Rags [ebook] All that had happened was that someone had ballocksed up the hook. Billy Rags [ebook] ‘Tell silly ballocks to put it [i.e. a jacket] on himself’.at ballocks, n.
Billy Rags [ebook] ‘Have you ever noticed the way everybody bulls up for a scene like the Board [of Magistrates]?’.at bull, n.6
Billy Rags [ebook] Reece staring at them shit-scared and yet burbling on to me as though nothing was happening.at burble, v.
Billy Rags [ebook] I look the business when I shape up, hard eyes and everything, it’s one of my best effects.at business, n.
Billy Rags [ebook] ‘Oh, that’s lovely, Wally,’ I chivvied. ‘And we’ll all end up with another five [i.e. years in prison] apiece’.at chivvy, v.1
Billy Rags [ebook] ‘That’s why they [i.e. the police] only clobbered you on the one operation’.at clobber, v.2
Billy Rags [ebook] ‘It may be standard practice for you and the rest of the fucking cons in the place but you can leave me out of it’.at con, n.1
Billy Rags [ebook] [I] whirled round quick as if I was going to cop for him.at cop for, v.
Billy Rags [ebook] ‘What’s he got a riot stick for, then? You’re going to cosh us up, you bastards’.at cosh, v.
Billy Rags [ebook] He’d once seen Terry do his pieces on an old billiard hall cowboy called Harold Pearson.at cowboy, n.
Billy Rags [ebook] I’d cracked him easily, publicly, quickly. I was top.at crack, v.1
Billy Rags [ebook] The only person who’d cracked on to my being in the doorway was Terry Beckley.at crack on, v.2
Billy Rags [ebook] ‘Twins. Little crackers they are’.at cracker, n.6
Billy Rags [ebook] [T]he fact that anybody on a doddle like this could forget the most important piece of equipment transformed the adrenalin pumping through the rest of us into hysterics.at doddle, n.
Billy Rags [ebook] A nickful of them [i.e. criminals] and no one had doddled.at doddle, v.
Billy Rags [ebook] ‘I don’t want to have to go back behind my door because of that filth’.at behind the door under door, n.
Billy Rags [ebook] [H]e thought I might screw up anything for him by doing a fast moonlight.at moonlight flit, n.
Billy Rags [ebook] I’d got his form from a mate of mine while I’d been outside.at form, n.1
Billy Rags [ebook] [A]ll the [...] cons were up at their windows, shouting encouragement at us but it didn’t raise our game.at raise one’s game (v.) under game, n.
Billy Rags [ebook] The hair; black, jet black, a bit gyppo, especially with the style, too-long Tony Curtis, greased inches thick.at gyppo, adj.
Billy Rags [ebook] If he’d been better hung he’d have given them a demonstration [of urinating].at hung, adj.
Billy Rags [ebook] [of a prison sentence] ‘I reckon if we’d knocked off Franklin [...] I don’t think I’d have got my card marked anything like as big.at mark someone’s card (v.) under mark, v.
Billy Rags [ebook] Copley is on the verge of fetching me one.at give someone one (v.) under one, n.1
Billy Rags [ebook] ‘What about the lads down on the Twos?’ said Ray. ‘Are they in?’ The Twos were well pleased it wasn’t on their plate. You could tell.at ones, n.2
Billy Rags [ebook] I’d got his form from a mate of mine while I’d been outside.at outside, n.
Billy Rags [ebook] Gordon Harris poncing along behind holding the hook, looking like a spare prick at a wedding.at ponce about (v.) under ponce, v.
Billy Rags [ebook] [H]is number two, a man called Jackie Smails, had started pumping up Ray’s wife every Wednesday afternoon [...] Come home, had his dinner, watched TV, taken Audrey upstairs and given her the usual pumping up.at pump, v.
Billy Rags [ebook] Everyone began to look shitty and there was no doubt about it, the whole scene was very embarrassing.at shitty, adj.1
Billy Rags [ebook] I acted a bit spare as though I hadn’t understood very much of what he’d said.at spare, adj.
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