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A Class Apart: The Private Pictures of Montague Glover choose

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[UK] in J. Gardiner Class Apart 134/2: I sat in the Salvation Army with a horn up to my neck, so I guess I’ll have to go and have a come-off on returning to camp [Simes:DLSS].
at come-off, n.2
[UK] J. Gardiner Class Apart 12/2: The ‘construction worker’ in hard hat, torn jeans and muddy boots, the leather-clad biker, the ‘clone’ (an ersatz urban lumberjack in plaid shirt and jeans), the tattooed skinhead, all familiar gay styles of dress from the 1970s on [Simes:DLSS].
at clone, n.
[UK] J. Gardiner Class Apart 53/2: The neighbourhoods around Guards’ barracks [...] were well known trolling grounds, and many of the pubs in the Knightsbridge area became notorious for gay men looking for ‘a bit of scarlet’ (nineteenth-century slang for a soldier) [Simes:DLSS].
at bit of scarlet (n.) under scarlet, n.
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