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Helsingør Station and Other Departures choose

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[UK] A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ Helsingør Station and Other Departures 169: Freddy himself, the true Scouse, drunk as a skunk and twice as sly.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[UK] A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ Helsingør Station and Other Departures 202: But no Barnet skinheads were aboard, setting out for a night of wog-bashing aggro.
at aggro, n.
[UK] A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 200: ‘Have a gander at this.’ ‘Arse over tea-kettle.’.
at arse/ass over teakettle under arse, n.
[UK] A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 159: Sir Harry Secombe got up in a blue blazer stood before the Wells Choir and the ballsy guys in blue blazers sang lustily ‘The Fires of Love Die’.
at ballsy (adj.) under balls, n.
[UK] A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 192: You had seen a pencilled invitation in the public toilet in Fortis Green, asking for beaver shots.
at beaver shot (n.) under beaver, n.1
[UK] A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 141: I’ll do that bleeder! So ’elp me.
at bleeder, n.
[UK] A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 193: Aggressive Mohawks out for a night of booze-up and wog-bashing in dirty Leicester Square.
at booze-up, n.
[UK] A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 141: ‘Bugger me ol’ boots,’ a desperate drinker said to no one in particular.
at bugger me! (excl.) under bugger, v.1
[UK] (con. 1930s) A. Higgins ‘Sodden Fields’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 49: My younger brother and I sucked bull’s-eyes.
at bull’s eye, n.
[UK] A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 157: Shut your bleedin cake’ole.
at cakehole (n.) under cake, n.1
[UK] A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 200: A load of codswallop.
at codswallop, n.
[UK] A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 203: The bloody lifts are all up the creek.
at up the creek (without a paddle) under creek, n.
[UK] A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 149: Drop him the hundred, Beamish said, and see what he’ll say.
at drop, v.2
[UK] A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 160: ‘Would you chance another [drink]?’ ‘Would a duck swim?’.
at can a duck swim? under duck, n.1
[UK] A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 157: They fell off the wagon with a hell of a crash.
at fall off the (water) wagon (v.) under fall, v.1
[UK] A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 152: ‘How am I?’ he said. ‘Absolutely bloody well fed up to the back teeth.’.
at fed up, adj.
[UK] A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 128: Jack [...] preferred to sit at the counter with his floozies around him.
at floozy, n.
[UK] A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 138: For Moose the footer season opened with fractured ribs.
at footer, n.2
[UK] A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ Helsingør Station and Other Departures 167: I’d drink your piss! I’m mad for it!
at mad for it, adj.
[UK] A. Higgins ‘Sodden Fields’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 61: ‘Ah no,’ groaned Paddy, ‘fuck me, no.’.
at fuck me!, excl.
[UK] A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ Helsingør Station and Other Departures 172: He had flown in Beaufighters at night during the London Blitz, and had been awarded a ‘gong’.
at gong, n.3
[UK] A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 151: Margaret was staring and silent, Betsy gushing.
at gush, v.
[UK] A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 144: ’E’s ’aven it orff wiv ’er, see.
at have it off, v.
[UK] A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 134: When not down in the dumps, you were frequently high as a kite.
at high as a kite (adj.) under high, adj.1
[UK] A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 1538: You drank till you were cleaned out, feeling ‘knackered’.
at knackered, adj.
[UK] A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 127: The Couch and Hound [...] patronized by queers and queer-bashers.
at queer-basher (n.) under queer, n.
[UK] A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 169: Freddy himself, the true Scouse, drunk as a skunk and twice as sly.
at Scouse, n.
[UK] A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 138: I have the spondoolicks.
at spondulics, n.
[UK] A. Higgins ‘Sodden Fields’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 60: Puffing a thumping big King Edward corona.
at thumping, adj.
[UK] A. Higgins ‘The Bird I Fancied’ in Helsingør Station and Other Departures 193: Aggressive Mohawks out for a night of booze-up and wog-bashing in dirty Leicester Square.
at wog-bashing (n.) under wog, n.1
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