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New Society 22 Aug. 37/2: The well-known fly cemetery and frogspawn are still ok – descriptions of currant puddings and tapioca.at fly cemetery (n.) under fly, n.3
New Society 22 Aug. 37/2: The well-known fly cemetery and frogspawn are still ok – descriptions of currant puddings and tapioca. in New Society 18 Apr. n.p.: The hard, the teddy-boy.at hard, n.
in New Society 18 Apr. n.p. : We asked for sex and were offered a packet of johnnies.at johnny, n.1
in New Society 18 Apr. 10: You fondle her, and she makes back and you’ve got a great whopper on.at whopper, n.
Connell in New Society 20 Feb. n.p.: Hallucinations [...] This is what the pill taker calls ‘the horrors’.at horrors, the, n.
in New Society 28 May n.p.: The recent gang-style rioting between Mods and Rockers.at rocker, n.4
New Society 11 Nov. 11/2: The settler saw the official receive the ‘golden handshake’ or ‘lumpers’.at lumper, n.1
New Society XII 16/2: You hear the clack of the bingo caller’s ‘clickity-click — 66’ and ‘Wilson’s Den — Number 10.’.at Wilson’s den, n.
Society (St. Louis, MO) 27/2: Thus, within the community you have a pimp walk, pimp style boots and clothes, and perhaps most of all ‘pimp talk’.at pimp talk (n.) under pimp, n.
New Society 13 Nov. 762/1: ‘We show ’em because they’re useful if there’s a bit of bovver.’ Bother is the crophead word for fight; indeed, a lot of them call their footwear ‘bovver boots’.at bovver, n.
New Society 17 622: With the 95 per cent council housing, the schools are rather oikish.at oikish (adj.) under oik, n.
New Society 29 170: Now, although she assesses herself a unique phoenix of fuckery, Ms [Linda] Lovelace does only what any accomplished whore is expected to do.at fuckery (n.) under fuck, v.
New Society 7 Jul. in DSUE (1984).at beagle, v.1
New Society 15 Jul. n.p.: As soon as a woman realised she had ‘fallen on’ or ‘got caught’ she would take action.at fallen on, adj.
New Society 6 Oct. in DSUE (1984).at flob, v.
New Society 25 Aug. 381/1: Rubbish-collector, tea boy, washer-upper and so on.at washer-upper, n.
New Society L 248: Tales will often, he says, feature a popular belief (that we are daily in danger
of being shat on from a great height).at shat on, adj.
New Society 50 177/2: He is two minutes late with the keys, and the dry throats give him some stick as they scamper in. A punk curses him; a tv wrestler tweaks his tie, then threatens worse.at give someone (some) stick (v.) under stick, n.
New Society 26 June n.p.: Yeah, I had a blow [KH].at blow, n.3
New Society in DSUE (1984) n.p.: Every Jo Shmo on the street will say ...at Joe Schmo (n.) under joe, n.1
New Society 2 Sept. 378: Drinking schools mix wine and cider to make a cheap heady drink called box-it.at box-it (n.) under box, n.1
New Society 11 Aug. 203/1: ‘My mate’s got amps if you wan’ ’em.’ [...] Amps (methadone, a synthetic heroin substitute), Rit (Ratlin, a stimulant) [...] you can get them all on the streets round here.at amp, n.
New Society 10 Mar. 384/1: Marks (inevitably referred to as ‘Marks and Sparks’) [...] offers a degree of style at a reasonable price.at M and S, n.
New Society 10 Mar. 384/2: Meals begin with ‘horses doovers’, are accompanied by ‘dray wait wane’ or ‘bow-jollies.’ ‘Thank you’ is ‘mercy buckets’.at mercy buckets, phr.
New Society 10 Mar. 384/3: A Chinese meal is a ‘chinkie,’ food in general is ‘sustenance’.at Chinky, n.
New Society 10 Mar. 384/3: A drinks party might be a ‘do’ or ‘drinkies’; a cocktail party could be described as a ‘cockers-p’.at cockers-p, n.
New Society 11 Aug. 203/1: Rit (Ritalin, a stimulant), Dike (Diconal, a painkiller), and many more – you can them all on the streets round here.at dike, n.3
New Society 10 Mar. 384/2: Its [i.e. the telephone] chief function is to facilitate a good long gossip or ‘gozz’.at goss, n.2
New Society 10 Mar. 384/3: Nothing ever appears on tv, only on the ‘goggle box’ or the ‘idiot box in the corner’.at idiot box (n.) under idiot, n.
New Society 10 Mar. 384/3: You are never ill but suffer the ‘dreaded lurgi’.at lurgi, n.
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