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[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 290: He’d ended up in the Beechwood until closing time, drunk as a skunk.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 133: ‘Marks next, I’m afraid,’ said Phyllis.
at M and S, n.
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 152: [O]utside the Sally Army.
at Sally Ann, n.
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 145: ‘What was that about, Wattie? Could you have got your head any further up his arse?
at up someone’s arse/ass under arse, n.
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 31: [T]he legend CUMBIE RULE YA BASS scrawled in black felt pen.
at bass, n.1
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 104: Kent must have come just to see her – can’t think of any other reason for a bluenose like him to be at Mass’.
at bluenose, n.1
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 1249: ‘His boot-boy pals aren’t too fond of the likes of me’.
at boot boy (n.) under boot, n.2
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 27: [He] could be anything from thirteen to seventeen, fuzz of bum fluff on his chin.
at bum-fluff, n.
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 207: Wattie chucked the rest of his pint over.
at chuck over (v.) under chuck, v.2
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 1347: Whoever had done over Norma McGregor’s flat had done a good job. McCoy and Wattie stood in the middle of the chaos and looked round.
at do over, v.
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 62: ‘I saw her the other day [...] All dolled up, she was’.
at dolled up, adj.
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 158: The DTs needed to be held at bay no matter the risk.
at DTs, n.
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 184: Teddy Jamieson [...] Always out and about, face on the scene.
at face, n.
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 35: ‘Fuck sake,’ said Wattie. ‘I think she’s fainted’.
at for fuck’s sake!, excl.
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 104: [of a former villain] ‘Duncan Kent? [...] he’s well out the game, too busy building bloody shopping centres and getting his photo in the paper.
at game, n.
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 266: ‘You got one of your goons to torture and kill Malky McCormack – an old man who knew nothing’.
at goon, n.1
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 165: ‘[T]railing round every down-and-outs’ hangout in Glasgow’.
at hang-out, n.1
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 235: ‘You know what your Angela used to do – supply the high rollers, bands, all that stuff?’.
at high roller, n.
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 45: ‘He was honking most of the time, filthy – nae woman in her right mind would go near him’.
at honk, v.2
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 132: ‘[W]hoever concocted the mixture could have been unaware it was poisonous, could just have been trying to make a very strong hooch’.
at hooch, n.1
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 61: ‘C’mon, Cuthbert, don’t get all huffy on me’.
at huffy, adj.
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 283: ‘I told you to get a car no one would notice, didn’t say get a bloody jalopy’.
at jalopy, n.
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 54: ‘You and the lefty film star’.
at lefty, adj.
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 226: She was a looker, all right.
at looker, n.
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 182: [A] queue [...] waiting to get into the disco above the Apollo. All of them dressed to the nines.
at up to the nines, phr.
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 22: The doorman looked like a ticked-off schoolboy.
at ticked (off), adj.
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 150: [O]ne of them trying to sink a pint in a oner.
at oner, n.
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 282: ‘Archie wants to meet you. Suss you out. See if you’re up to the job’.
at suss out, v.
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 232: ‘[M]y husband and some employees rolled her flat over, as you well know’.
at roll over, v.
[Scot] A. Parks To Die in June 216: ‘Welcome to my humble abode,’ he said. ‘Even if you are a dirty Pape’.
at pape, n.
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