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A Prisoner’s Tale choose

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[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 34: There was no way the screws were going to let him out for a pony.
at pony (and trap), n.
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 136: I never done no boy in, you fucking animal ...
at animal, n.1
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 112: But [...] the system’s unjust [...] makes you like a child who ain’t allowed to do nothing off his own bat.
at off one’s own bat (adv.) under bat, n.2
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 16: He would have taken his nicking had he really been involved in the blag and it had come on top.
at blag, n.
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 21: He [...] glanced down at his crotch. ‘I’m getting a blue vein here, Ginge,’ he said invitingly to the trusty.
at blue vein, n.
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 50: Most in here let you brown ’em for a bit.
at brown, v.3
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 129: We did a busy out at Romford nick, got some info’ out of there.
at do a busy (v.) under busy, n.
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 149: He had seen prison chivs before, but nothing like that.
at chiv, n.1
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 31: Jack Lynn [...] felt he was no worse off for being on chokey.
at chokey, n.
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 47: Two of the others, including Tully, got a chuck, the third a retrial.
at get the chuck (v.) under chuck, n.2
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 120: That no-good cunting detective wanted me put away.
at cunting (adj.) under cunt, n.
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 133: My old lady took me to all sorts of trickcyclists when I was a kid. We seemed to camp in Harley Street, all top men.
at trick cyclist, n.
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 106: He decided the screw was a diamond after that.
at diamond, n.
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 114: What’s the fucking dif’?
at dif, n.
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 73: ‘Oh, he reckons there’s a double-good chance of me getting a result,’ Lynn lied.
at double, adv.
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 77: The eggheaded Donald Ludlow, who was in his mid-fifties, but looked older.
at eggheaded, adj.2
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 138: For a moment he thought it might be DI Pyall calling about something else in the frame to charge him with should his appeal go well.
at in the frame under frame-up, n.
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 73: That’s what gets my goat. They won’t give me no release date, will they.
at get someone’s goat (v.) under goat, n.1
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 190: Hold up [...] ’Sthat deep enough, Mr. Evans?
at hold up!, excl.
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 150: He’ll tell you whether it can be done and how much it will stand you in.
at stand in, v.2
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 75: Put us in, you got one plotted up.
at put in, v.
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 133: ‘He always was a snaky cunt, that one,’ he said now, ringing it to disassociate himself from the DI.
at ring it, v.
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 140: ‘Now look, old son,’ the chief inspector said in a man-to-man tone.
at old man, n.
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 43: I thought you was on the ‘Moor.’.
at Moor, the, n.
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 16: He would have taken his nicking had he really been involved in the blag and it had come on top.
at nicking, n.
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 46: A hanger-on wouldn’t dream of getting his food before a right villain, but would come before the nonces.
at nonce, n.
[UK] G.F. Newman Prisoner’s Tale 49: Lynn recognised right off what the con was doing [...] It wasn’t on, he decided.
at not on, adj.
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 19: You’d better understand something right from the off.
at off, n.1
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 148: I want to make one as bad as you do, Bri.
at make one (v.) under one, n.1
[UK] G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 47: ‘Come up to the threes,’ – there Collins held sway. [Ibid.] 49: ‘You ought to talk to Tony Scuffham down on the ones,’ Micky Dunkerton said.
at ones, n.2
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