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[UK] F. Norman Guntz n.p.: Cop a deaf-un because otherwise Karl Marx is gonna get you.
at cop a deaf ’un (v.) under cop a..., v.
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 52: I went into this rubadub and ordered a drink at the bar.
at rub-a-dub, n.2
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 31: So we went to this rubadub nearby called ‘Boos.’.
at rub-a-dub, n.2
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 81: ‘Spend every penny’ [...] is what he told me to do, and then borrowed a jacks.
at jack’s (alive), n.
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 28: The programme wasn’t all that.
at all that, adj.
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 31: I paid the jack and jill and we left.
at jack (and jill), n.
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 166: Rabbiting away nineteen-to-the-dozen.
at rabbit (and pork), v.
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 5: My rather threadbare civvy whistle felt rather cold.
at whistle (and flute), n.
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 21: Wot’s up wiv ya; ya bottle fallen out or somfink?
at has your bottle fallen out? under bottle (and glass), n.
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 86: She’s a stripper in this way out filthy little armpit of a night club.
at armpit, n.
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 65: She monotonously wiggled her arse in the faces of the bald-headed old geezers.
at arse, n.
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 5: I [...] started to have it away down the hill a bit lively before they changed their minds.
at have it away, v.
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 195: Every one in the joint was getting well away.
at well away, adj.
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 7: They send you to a doss house, so that you can get lice in your barnet.
at barnet (fair), n.
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 57: Just because a few geezers in Parliament don’t want the girls on the bash no more.
at on the bash under bash, v.
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 61: I knew double well that it was going to be off as soon as I got outside.
at be off, v.
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 49: I was well pleased that the team of ginger-beers were copping a deaf-un to us.
at ginger (beer), n.
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 138: All of which [i.e. TV channels] never leave off belting out programmes round the clock.
at belt out (v.) under belt, v.
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 6: Course it’s f . . . ing right you burk (I thought).
at berk, n.
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 94: If he is normal he is [...] liable to make a lot of noise about it and if he is bicycle: ‘Wheeeeee!!!!’.
at bicycle, n.
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 206: A young geezer with bins on.
at bins, n.2
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 5: They didn’t say a dicky-bird to me nor me to them.
at dicky-bird, n.2
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 192: ‘Can I have something to eat?’ asked the yid bit.
at bit, n.1
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 8: I had just had the full bit, and I was no better off than I had been.
at bit, n.1
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 48: If she could attract these little bitches there was every chance she might have something.
at bitch, n.1
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 69: A couple of queers [...] bitching it up about every one under the sun.
at bitch, v.
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 115: What with every one making bitchy comments to each other.
at bitchy, adj.
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 11: All I had got was a right blank.
at blank, n.
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 80: Not really taking a blind bit of notice.
at blind, adj.2
[UK] F. Norman Guntz 19: He put the block on any of us having any more parties.
at put a/the block on (v.) under block, n.6
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