1977 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.
1977 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
1977 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.
1977 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.
1977 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.
1977 G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 149: He had seen prison chivs before, but nothing like that.at chiv, n.1
1977 G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 31: Jack Lynn [...] felt he was no worse off for being on chokey.at chokey, n.
1977 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
1977 G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 120: That no-good cunting detective wanted me put away.at cunting (adj.) under cunt, n.
1977 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.
1977 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.
1977 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
1977 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.
1977 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
1977 G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 190: Hold up [...] ’Sthat deep enough, Mr. Evans?at hold up!, excl.
1977 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
1977 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.
1977 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.
1977 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.
1977 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.
1977 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.
1977 G.F. Newman A Prisoner’s Tale 19: You’d better understand something right from the off.at off, n.1
1977 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
1977 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