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An Indiscreet Guide to Soho choose

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[UK] S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 116: He knocked back his whisky and ordered another.
at knock back, v.
[UK] S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 25: He was wearing a leather jerkin, flannel bags and heavy brogues.
at bags, n.2
[UK] S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 60: A success story [...] without the sex appeal, sob stuff or ballyhoo.
at ballyhoo, n.
[UK] S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 105: An out-of-work all-in wrestler or just a barfly.
at bar-fly, n.
[UK] S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 45: A little barrel of a man with a large black hat.
at barrel, n.1
[UK] S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 30: He’s a waiter, like me, but lucky. Got a girl who goes out ‘on the bash’ for him.
at on the bash under bash, v.
[UK] S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 43: ‘Back to the Battle of Waterloo, lidy,’ he says sharply, and she returns sheepishly to the end of the line!
at battle of Waterloo, n.
[UK] S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 66: Someone told me he was a big pot in Whitehall.
at big pot, n.
[UK] S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 49: Another Lad is ‘Biff,’ who talks big [...] about the money he is earning.
at talk big (v.) under big, adv.
[UK] S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 121: ‘Snow birds,’ the women who introduce ‘friends’ on commission to dope-peddlers.
at snow bird, n.2
[UK] S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 25: He chuckled, with his usual mixture of blarney and shrewd common sense.
at blarney, n.1
[UK] S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 78: A blimpish brigadier with a Poona manner.
at blimpish (adj.) under blimp, n.1
[UK] S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 63: If you spend any length of time in Soho, the same faces are apt to bob up.
at bob up (v.) under bob, v.3
[UK] S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 30: I got a room in Frith Street. Fifteen bob a week.
at bob, n.3
[UK] S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 113: The boys are deciding if you are a ‘bogey’ (copper).
at bogey, n.1
[UK] S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 94: Should he prefer to ‘shoot the bones’ (play dice) his light-fingered friends can palm a loaded set.
at bones, n.1
[UK] S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 47: Congratulations, old boy.
at old boy, n.
[UK] S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 121: Around the bars are to be found ‘broadsmen’ (exponents of the three-card trick).
at broadsman (n.) under broads, n.
[UK] S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 113: His jacket is a long bum-warmer, hand stitched.
at bum-warmer (n.) under bum, n.1
[UK] S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 57: We have burned up headlines often before but this is the biggest front-page sensation of all.
at burn up, v.
[UK] S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 114: He has probably had sausage and mash in a Soho ‘caff’.
at caf, n.
[UK] S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 18: I have [...] caned my liver with gallons of hooch.
at cane, v.
[UK] S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 109: ’Frisco is following a dead cert at the White City.
at dead cert (n.) under cert, n.
[UK] S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 109: ’Frisco drinks with everyone, wisecracks [...] bandies chaff in the argot of a dozen capitals.
at chaff, n.1
[UK] S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 99: A lanky young fellow [...] grins good-humouredly when chaffed about the gingerish beard he is growing.
at chaff, v.
[UK] S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 94: He hasn’t a Chinaman’s chance of winning at one of these parties.
at Chinaman’s chance, n.
[UK] S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 48: A little chap with a squint and a bow tie offered his sax for sale.
at chap, n.
[UK] S. Jackson An Indiscreet Guide to Soho 101: Those who want to relax can play billiards or cards but [...] the most popular game is ‘chewing the rag’.
at chew the rag, v.
[UK] S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 42: The coster is as chirpy as ever.
at chirpy, adj.
[UK] S. Jackson Indiscreet Guide to Soho 92: It is common knowledge that ‘the skids are sometimes greased’ (bribes paid for ‘protection’) by several owners of the worst clip joints.
at clip-joint, n.
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