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[UK] T. Brown Cavalcade in Works (1760) IV 275: Excuse me from Teagueland and slaughter.
at Teagueland, n.
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 120: ‘Try the acky on it if you like. There y’are,’ he went on, putting the acid on the table, together with a file.
at acky, n.
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 77: This Raffles business was all ‘my eye’, really, and couldn’t be done.
at all my eye, phr.
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 143: He used to be one of the best in the Nile at an ‘up-and-a-downer.’.
at up-and-downer, n.
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 170: I saw your skin-and-blister last night.
at skin-and-blister, n.
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 244: Let’s go and get drunk [...] Come on, let’s tell the old lady and get blind-o!
at blindo, adj.
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 141: Stick the boot in, Patsy!
at put the boot in (v.) under boot, the, n.
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 30: The ‘Brit’ Cinema, which is situated in that street. It was the old Britannia Music Hall.
at Brit, the, n.
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 34: I was going to do a ‘bust’ with him to-morrow.
at do a bust (v.) under bust, n.
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 234: Mac was left to dispose of it to the best advantage to one of the known ‘buyers’.
at buyer, n.
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 202: Gaw on, buzz off!
at buzz off!, excl.
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 216: Why, if you hadn’t come along as you did they’d-a put me to bye-bye.
at put someone to bye-bye (v.) under bye-bye(s), n.
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 256: Do you know anything of that climbing job up West the other night?
at climb, n.1
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 177: Oh, yer mother’s ill, ain’t she, cock?
at cock, n.2
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 282: You can’t come the ‘old soldier’ with me. I know you too well.
at come the old soldier (v.) under come the..., v.
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 108: S’posing that – Yid’s ‘come it’ to the splits – where would we be, eh?
at come it, v.2
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 277: It means a long lagging for me – with my previous ‘cons’ behind me.
at con, n.1
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 15: Some of those [...] set upon them, using ‘coshes’ and razors.
at cosh, n.
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 220: If you do go crook I believe I’ll kill you.
at go crook (on) (v.) under crook, adj.
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 77: He would not mind ‘having a cut’ at it like that.
at have a cut (at) (v.) under cut, n.1
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 278: And to show you, I’ll do my durnedest.
at do one’s darnedest (v.) under darned, adj.
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 142: I’ve been having a ding-dong with my old man.
at ding-dong, n.5
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 176: You’ll get ‘done’ too, one of these days.
at done, adj.
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 168: That won’t be so dusty, then.
at dusty, adj.1
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 105: Come, on, let’s ‘float’.
at float, v.1
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 169: ‘I s’pose I’ll get fullied,’ said Jack [...] ‘That’ll mean a brief then,’ Bill supplemented.
at fullied, adj.
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 45: Well, I’ve got a ‘gaff’ I want to do [...] ‘Where?’ [...] ‘In Dalston.’.
at gaff, n.1
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 21: Mac’s contempt was cutting. ‘You’re only trying to make out you’re a brave “jockey,” that’s all.’.
at jockey, n.2
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 121: Give me time to go to the ‘jug’.
at jug, n.1
[UK] G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade 244: I see her going to work the other day, and she looks fair knocked up.
at knocked up, adj.
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