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[UK] C. Newland Scholar 53: Raa, wh’ gwaan Garv, you look well worried.
at what a gwarn?, phr.
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 202: I’m sayin’ we should get our act together, an’ start runnin’ t’ings in dis estate.
at get one’s act together (v.) under act, n.
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 92: Sam, ’llow me dem old wives’s tales an’ face the truth.
at allow, v.
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 209: ‘He’s jus’ a friend dat’s all, he’s concerned.’ [...] ‘Concerned my arse.’.
at my arse! (excl.) under arse, n.
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 103: Sean my brother, we got our arses kicked man. Five one, at full time.
at kick someone’s arse under arse, n.
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 14: Other boys smoked weed, ash and worst of all crack.
at ash, n.
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 156: The Dredd had ushered them into a room which had hitherto been locked, to wait for Kenny who ran on BPT – black people’s time.
at b.p.t., n.
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 121: Get it sorted and I’ll be off your back, trus’ me.
at get off someone’s back (v.) under back, n.1
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 292: She had bere tom on her.
at bare, adj.
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 273: FUUUCK, IT’S DE BEASTBWOY DEM!
at beast-boy (n.) under beast, n.
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 121: You got me moby number, so gimme a bell dis week, yeah?
at give someone a bell (v.) under bell, n.1
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 130: ‘I’m gettin’ some for you anyway, so eat what you want, leave what you want, innit?’ ‘Big up, respec’, star.’.
at big up, v.
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 290: An’ wh’ you talkin’ about, ‘my bitch’? Where d’you think you are man, Harlem?
at bitch, n.1
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 156: The Dredd had ushered them into a room which had hitherto been locked, to wait for Kenny who ran on BPT – black people’s time.
at black people’s time, n.
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 28: You have to get that poster done quicktime, not blacktime.
at blacktime (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 179: I never take the first blast down, it’s pure paper an’ cigarette.
at blast, n.1
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 26: I’ll let him know blatant.
at blatant, adv.
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 20: We go back to Greenside man, go check Levi, an’ hold a bone.
at bone, n.1
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 118: You bin’ smokin’ bone today or what? [Ibid.] 202: [They] buy two, maybe three bones each.
at bone, n.1
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 81: Was he a bonehead?
at bonehead, n.3
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 34: Dem man had their boras y’know.
at bora, n.
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 71: Mikey’s boys was tooled up though, so they might have bored up someone, innit?
at bore (up) (v.) under bore, v.1
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 182: Raa, Sean, wha’ you sayin’ rudey!
at rude boy, n.
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 3: Your pub’ll get a visit from the Vice boys.
at boys, the, n.
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 33: ‘Ain’ you got nuttin’ t’say?’ ‘Not to you bredrin,’ Roger replied.
at bredren, n.
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 15: Your cousin should watch himself with dem brers he’s moving with, y’know.
at brer, n.
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 18: An’ you’re jus’ bringin’ me in?
at bring in (v.) under bring, v.
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 20: [He] only asked to be ‘brought in neatly’ when they exchanged their stolen goods for money, or drugs.
at bring in (v.) under bring, v.
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 270: I thought she was gonna bash her with her brolly.
at brolly, n.
[UK] C. Newland Scholar 254: ‘I was jus’ gettin’ some ciggies,’ he lied [...] ‘I got browns,’ she told him.
at brown, n.
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