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King Dido choose

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[UK] (con. 1911) A. Baron King Dido 147: ‘Don’t come the old acid. Where’d you get money?’.
at come the (old) acid (v.) under acid, n.2
[UK] (con. 1911) A. Baron King Dido 27: [T]he barefoot, ragged-arsed, pallid, dirty children of Rabbit Marsh.
at -arsed, sfx
[UK] (con. 1911) A. Baron King Dido 87: ‘When I put him away it’ll be for a long time’.
at put away, v.
[UK] (con. 1911) A. Baron King Dido 147: ‘I tried to keep you a decent boy. Find you with that old bag’.
at bag, n.1
[UK] (con. 1911) A. Baron King Dido 136: ‘You’ve dropped a ballock this time, Harry’.
at drop a ballock (v.) under ballock, n.
[UK] (con. 1911) A. Baron King Dido 132: ‘Long as this clumsy ox don’t balls everything up’.
at balls up, v.
[UK] (con. 1912) A. Baron King Dido 236: ‘You drove Chas to the devil’ [...] ‘Well [...] that beats the band’.
at beat the band (v.) under band, n.2
[UK] (con. 1911) A. Baron King Dido 137: ‘We never knew ’e ’ad a barker, Mr Merry’.
at barker, n.1
[UK] (con. 1912) A. Baron King Dido 232: ‘I don’t want me face bashed in’.
at bash, v.
[UK] (con. 1912) A. Baron King Dido 232: ‘I’m no mug to ask for a bashin’.
at bashing, n.
[UK] (con. 1911) A. Baron King Dido 31: ‘Be blowed to that’.
at be-blowed!, excl.
[UK] (con. 1911) A. Baron King Dido 131: ‘Only way the cook can get a bit at ’er age’.
at bit, n.1
[UK] (con. 1911) A. Baron King Dido 144: ‘Baby boy, baby boy — ’ This was a big blackie [...] ‘ — you come with me, I’ll eat you right’.
at blackie (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] (con. 1911) A. Baron King Dido 103: He read ‘penny bloods’ by the hundred. Sexton Blake and the boys of Greyfriars were his heroes.
at blood, n.1
[UK] (con. 1912) A. Baron King Dido 237: ‘Get bloody out!’.
at bloody, adj.
[UK] (con. 1912) A. Baron King Dido 295: Use your brains. Do something. Or are you all blow and no show?
at all blow and no show under blow, n.3
[UK] (con. 1912) A. Baron King Dido 245: ‘They locked me in the bog. Put ink in me san’wiches’.
at bog, n.1
[UK] (con. 1911) A. Baron King Dido 9: All festivities were consummated in one form: the booze-up.
at booze-up, n.
[UK] (con. 1912) A. Baron King Dido 252: ‘Doctor ought to be comin’ soon.’ ‘Oh, bother him’.
at bother, v.
[UK] (con. 1912) A. Baron King Dido 296: ‘You wanna box clever long as they’re [i.e. the police] watchin’’.
at box clever (v.) under box, v.2
[UK] (con. 1911) A. Baron King Dido 145: Dirty Aggie, the old brass for the old down-and-outs who only had a few coppers to spare.
at brass, n.2
[UK] (con. 1912) A. Baron King Dido 241: ‘I’m not askin’ you to risk your neck. Use your loaf’.
at use one’s loaf (v.) under loaf (of bread), n.
[UK] (con. 1912) A. Baron King Dido 176: On the table in front of him was a plate full of coins [...] This was the brick — the traditional collection and tribute to the dead.
at brick, n.
[UK] (con. 1912) A. Baron King Dido 245: ‘Poor little bugger [...] You stuck it all that time?’.
at bugger, n.1
[UK] (con. 1911) A. Baron King Dido 86: ‘Are you going to find him another bust?’.
at bust, n.
[UK] (con. 1911) A. Baron King Dido 35: ‘All canary, are you?’ ‘You be fuckin’ brave [...] You show us’.
at canary, adj.
[UK] (con. 1912) A. Baron King Dido 240: ‘If ’e don’t come ’e’s no man. ‘’E’ll be shown up for a charlie’ [ibid.] 241: ‘Dido ’ll put it all round Bethnal Green that Keogh is a charlie’.
at charley (howard), n.
[UK] (con. 1911) A. Baron King Dido 104: ‘Show you ’oo’s charlie.’ ‘All right. You ain’t charlie?’.
at charlie, adj.
[UK] (con. 1912) A. Baron King Dido 219: ‘Comes home dressed like a bloody poxdoctor’s clerk’.
at done up like a pox doctor’s clerk under pox-doctor’s clerk, n.
[UK] (con. 1912) A. Baron King Dido 232: ‘Missus an’ kid wouldn’ ’a worried you. You’d ’a clocked them too if they come the acid’.
at clock, v.1
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