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[UK] A. Burgess Inside Mr Enderby in Complete Enderby (2002) 65: Been smelling the barmaid’s apron, that’s your trouble.
at smell of the barman’s apron (n.) under apron, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Inside Mr Enderby in Complete Enderby (2002) 70: He’s gone off [...] We had a bit of a barney.
at barney, n.2
[UK] A. Burgess Inside Mr Enderby in Complete Enderby (2002) 70: ‘Have you got a bob you can let me have’ [...] ‘Not a sausage [...] I blued it all on booze’.
at blow, v.2
[UK] A. Burgess Inside Mr Enderby in Complete Enderby (2002) 161: Here was the authentic fleapit [...] eptiome of every bughouse that Enderby had, as a child, queued outside.
at bughouse, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Inside Mr Enderby in Complete Enderby (2002) 65: Too much hoot altogether, mate, to my way of thinking, that’s what you’ve got.
at hoot, n.4
[UK] A. Burgess Inside Mr Enderby in Complete Enderby (2002) 65: This here’s my fist [...] You’ll get it straight in the moosh, straight up you will.
at mush, n.2
[UK] A. Burgess Inside Mr Enderby in Complete Enderby (2002) 70: ‘Have you got a bob you can let me have’ [...] ‘Not a sausage [...] I blued it all on booze’.
at sausage, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Inside Mr Enderby in Complete Enderby (2002) 65: This here’s my fist [...] You’ll get it straight in the moosh, straight up you will.
at straight up, adv.
[UK] A. Burgess Inside Mr Enderby in Complete Enderby (2002) 69: There were criminal-looking coppers there, with wide-boy tashes.
at tash, n.
[UK] A. Burgess Inside Mr Enderby in Complete Enderby (2002) 73: Coming [...] half a tick.
at tick, n.4
[UK] A. Burgess Inside Mr Enderby in Complete Enderby (2002) 69: There were criminal-looking coppers there, with wide-boy tashes.
at wide-boy (n.) under wide, adj.
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