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Whitsun Weddings choose

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[UK] P. Larkin ‘Send No Money’ in Whitsun Weddings 43: All the other lads there / Were itching to have a bash.
at bash, n.1
[UK] P. Larkin ‘A Study of Reading Habits’ in Whitsun Weddings 31: The hero arrives, the chap / Who’s yellow and keeps the store.
at chap, n.
[UK] P. Larkin ‘Self’s the Man’ in Whitsun Weddings 24: To pay for the kiddies’ clobber and the drier.
at clobber, n.
[UK] P. Larkin ‘A Study of Reading Habits’ in Whitsun Weddings 31: Get stewed: / Books are a load of crap.
at crap, n.1
[UK] P. Larkin ‘A Study of Reading Habits’ in Whitsun Weddings 31: To know I could still keep cool, / And deal out the old right hook / To dirty dogs twice my size.
at dirty dog (n.) under dirty, adj.
[UK] P. Larkin ‘Essential Beauty’ in Whitsun Weddings 42: The boy puking his heart out in the Gents.
at gents, n.
[UK] P. Larkin ‘Wild Oats’ in Whitsun Weddings 41: Faces in those days sparked / The whole shooting-match off.
at whole shooting match, the, phr.
[UK] P. Larkin ‘A Study of Reading Habits’ in Whitsun Weddings 31: I could still keep cool / And deal out the old right hook / To dirty dogs twice my size.
at old, adj.
[UK] P. Larkin ‘Self’s the Man’ in Whitsun Weddings 24: The money he gets for wasting his life on work / She takes as her perk.
at perk, n.1
[UK] P. Larkin ‘Mr. Bleaney’ in Whitsun Weddings 10: He kept on plugging at the four aways.
at plug, v.1
[UK] P. Larkin ‘A Study of Reading Habits’ Whitsun Weddings 31: Me and my cloak and fangs / Had ripping times in the dark!
at ripping, adj.
[UK] P. Larkin ‘Send No Money’ in Whitsun Weddings 43: What does it prove? Sod all.
at sod-all (n.) under sod, n.1
[UK] P. Larkin ‘A Study of Reading Habits’ in Whitsun Weddings 31: Later, with inch-thick specs / Evil was just my lark.
at specs, n.
[UK] P. Larkin ‘A Study of Reading Habits’ in Whitsun Weddings 31: Get stewed: / Books are a load of crap.
at stewed, adj.1
[UK] P. Larkin ‘Dockery & Son’ Whitsun Weddings 37: Black-gowned, unbreakfasted, and still half-tight.
at tight, adj.
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