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The Great Push choose

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[UK] P. MacGill The Great Push 114: ‘I’ll make yer laugh,’ I said to ’im, and shoved my bayonet at ’is bread basket.
at breadbasket (n.) under bread, n.1
[UK] P. MacGill The Great Push 165: ‘There’ll be some char (tea) in a minute,’ said Bill.
at cha, n.1
[UK] P. MacGill The Great Push 113: ’E can ’old more’n any man in Lunnon, more’n the chucker-out at ‘The Cat and Mustard Pot’ boozer in W- Road even.
at chucker-out, n.
[UK] P. MacGill The Great Push 82: ‘In much pain, chummy?’ I asked.
at chum, n.
[UK] P. MacGill The Great Push 145: ‘Not a word now,’ said Teake, fixing one eye on me and another on the hen. ‘I must get my feelers on this ’ere cackler.’.
at feeler, n.2
[UK] P. MacGill The Great Push 114: ’E works ’ard when ’e’s workin’, ’e can use ’is fives wiv anyone, ’e can take a drink or leave it, but ’e prefers takin’ it.
at fives, n.
[UK] P. MacGill The Great Push 107: ‘Get yer ’ipes,’ he yelled. ‘Quick! Grease out of it and get into the scrap.’.
at grease (off) (v.) under grease, v.1
[UK] P. MacGill The Great Push 234: I was just going to look over the top when the shell hit and a piece had gone right through my foot near the big toe. [...] Gawd! it doesn’t ’arf give me gip!
at give someone gyp (v.) under gyp, n.2
[UK] P. MacGill The Great Push 41: Gentlemen, the Guards, / When the brick fields they took / The Germans took the hook / And left the Gentlemen in charge!
at sling one’s hook, v.
[UK] P. MacGill The Great Push 57: ‘We’ll ’ave a drink to ’elp us,’ said Bill, and a cork went plonk!
at plonk!, excl.
[UK] P. MacGill The Great Push 107: Come on! Come out of it! We’ll give the swine socks!
at give someone sock(s) (v.) under sock, n.2
[UK] P. MacGill The Great Push 26: ‘Thought I twigged yer from the photo of yer phiz in the papers,’ said the man with the snub nose.
at twig, v.2
[UK] P. MacGill The Great Push 150: When I go back to blighty I’ll go to bed and I’ll not get up for umpty-eleven months.
at umpty, adj.
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