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[UK] (con. 1950s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 45: Tha’s nothing but a whore, a bag, a prostitute.
at bag, n.1
[UK] (con. 1960s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 81: I’m going to tell them all to go to balls, especially bosses.
at go to balls! (excl.) under balls!, excl.
[UK] (con. 1950s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 54: Get out of this bastard house or else I’ll kill thee. [Ibid.] 55: One of these days I’ll bastard strangle you!
at bastard, adj.
[UK] (con. 1960s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 193: You might get bad-tempered and ball me off.
at bawl off, v.
[UK] (con. 1940–50s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 21: I used to be able to do big jobs without that!
at big jobs (n.) under big, adj.
[UK] (con. 1950s–60s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 26: Put the blinding kettle on. [Ibid.] 149: Our Geoff drove me back home and blinding hell when we got there we found that the house had been broken into.
at blinding, adj.2
[UK] (con. 1960s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 129: She’s gone a bomb for my husband, she just didn’t stop staring at him.
at go a bomb (v.) under bomb, n.
[UK] (con. 1940–50s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 20: Wednesday was his favourite day because it was sick-pay day and he could get boozed up.
at boozed, adj.
[UK] (con. 1950s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 69: They’d all have their mouths open at the goggle-box.
at goggle box, n.
[UK] (con. late 1960s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 211: I didn’t want you to ever marry him [...] because he could have always brained you any time.
at brain, v.
[UK] (con. 1960s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 146: I’ve got nothing so I might as well go for broke.
at go for broke, v.
[UK] (con. 1950s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 53: Bugger the wedding party, they weren’t there!
at bugger, v.1
[UK] (con. 1940–50s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 12: My father was a bugger for spending the money from Lloyd George on the beer.
at bugger for under bugger, n.1
[UK] (con. 1940–50s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 84: I got up to cook some chip butties for them.
at butty, n.2
[UK] (con. 1960s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 154: I’m going to end it, I’m going to chop myself.
at chop, v.2
[UK] (con. late 1960s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 207: I don’t know, something didn’t click with me.
at click, v.3
[UK] (con. 1940–50s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 37: Before you knew where you were you’d get a clip across the ear.
at clip, n.2
[UK] (con. 1960s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 185: I cocked it up.
at cock up, v.
[UK] (con. 1940–50s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 18: Oh, cow him.
at cow!, excl.
[UK] (con. 1940–50s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 18: Cowing bastard, we’ll have them, the cheese and tomatoes, he’s not getting any.
at cowing, adj.
[UK] (con. 1960s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 190: Don’t give the show away Barbara for crying out loud.
at for crying out loud!, excl.
[UK] (con. late 1960s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 195: It didn’t help his language, although he gradually stopped using the ‘F’s’ so much.
at F, n.1
[UK] (con. 1960s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 154: I can remember one night her flaking out on the couch.
at flake (out), v.
[UK] (con. 1940–50s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 12: I had to have time off because my father only got the ‘Lloyd George’, as we called the National Assistance.
at Lloyd George, n.
[UK] (con. 1960s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 146: The tax man, too, came at this time to ask where all the goodies had gone.
at goodies, n.
[UK] (con. 1960s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 832: I went right goosy with him.
at goosey, adj.
[UK] (con. 1950s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 66: Oh don’t get thy hair off!
at keep one’s hair on, v.
[UK] (con. 1960s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 197: He’s going to, bleeding heck!
at heck!, excl.
[UK] (con. 1950s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 44: Oh, I’m getting a horn on just thinking about what I could do to you.
at horn, n.2
[UK] (con. 1950s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 49: We’ll all just have to muck in one way or another.
at muck in, v.
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