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[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 99: Anyway we didn’t really run the all-nighters to make money.
at all-nighter, n.
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 205: A four-eyed short-arse, which makes its nest in old New Statesmans.
at short-arse, n.
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 88: Birmingham, the town we christened ‘The Arsehole of England’.
at arsehole, n.
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 111: Mike Lawrence, the singer who had been given such a bollocking by Doreen Porter’s mum.
at ballocking, n.2
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 157: Any other food, soup for instance or cheese, came under the heading of ‘pretentious bollocks’.
at ballocks, n.
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 237: He came down into the dressing room in a very bad temper and began to bawl out Paddy.
at bawl out, v.1
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 89: When Humph went mainstream [...] a whole row of the audience raised, during Bruce Turner’s first alto chorus, a long banner reading ‘go home dirty bopper!’.
at bebopper, n.
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 90: A very ugly, but willing woman know to the sergeants as ‘The Widnes Bicycle’.
at bicycle, n.
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 66: The young bloods of Huddersfield or Barnsley staggered green-faced from the bar.
at young blood (n.) under blood, n.2
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 66: The students, like most French students, were conceited and bloody.
at bloody, adj.
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 99: We played three one-hour sessions and relied on musicians who wanted a blow to fill in the gaps.
at blow, n.3
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 174: Laurie London who, it was reported in an interview, wrote his God-bothering hit ‘He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands’, while sitting on the lavatory.
at God-bothering, adj.
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 227: I come over on the telly as camp as Chloe.
at camp as Chloe (adj.) under camp, adj.
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 133: I used to go along every other Tuesday [...] and put in what Mick would call ‘my two penn’orth.’.
at put in one’s two cents’ (worth) (v.) under two cents’ worth, n.
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 126: I got the chats, and made lots of jokes while they were stitching up my finger.
at chats, n.3
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 122: He then pulled a chiv out of his pocket and was holding it so that it just touched the side of my throat.
at chiv, n.1
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 187: He was telling Mick, as he rubbed white ointment all over his astounding lips [...] how essential it was for him, as a trumpet player, to ‘look after your chops heh heh heh!’.
at chops, n.1
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 109: Her pitch was good and above all she could swing like the clappers.
at like the clappers (adv.) under clappers, n.3
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 145: Of course he had a come-back [...] he pointed out that to him ‘All you cunts is transpontine’.
at comeback, n.1
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 159: Once the band had re-formed, once the days of deps and fill-ins were behind us, touring continued much as before.
at dep, n.
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 26: I never reproached you when you made this house a doss for band boys and barrow spivs.
at doss, n.1
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 57: Mick, whose ears are as sharp as his eyes are dim, was always hearing Paul running him down as a musician.
at run down, v.
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 26: I [...] will not tolerate [...] Mick Mulligan to bring his doxies here and perform strange tribal rites with them.
at doxy, n.
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 205: A four-eyed short-arse, which makes its nest in old New Statesmans.
at four-eyed, adj.
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 196: She [...] tried hard, although obviously feling no pain at all, to make herself weep.
at feeling no pain, phr.
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 250: He has decided the time has come to ‘pull his finger out’.
at pull one’s finger out (v.) under finger, n.
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 202: We all have our obsessions, and Mick’s was what he called a ‘flash’, a view of thigh and knicker.
at flash, n.1
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 226: The door flew open and there was the blonde lady flashing her tits.
at flash, v.1
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 69: Fuck me [ ...] just my luck. Hit over the head because a girl who doesn’t even fancy me kisses me when she’s pissed.
at fuck me!, excl.
[UK] G. Melly Owning Up (1974) 88: All of us funked it except Mick.
at funk, v.2
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