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[UK] F. Norman Stand on Me 52: She would have to give her job the belt.
at give someone the belt (v.) under belt, n.
[UK] F. Norman Stand on Me 39: Now from taking all this benz and scrumpy and stuff, I wasn’t all that bright on remembering.
at benz, n.
[UK] F. Norman Stand on Me 19: The law are after her, we ’ave to find her before she gets captured.
at capture, v.
[UK] F. Norman Stand on Me 17: I once knew a bird who went through sixteen geezers in one night. Mind you this was at a charge party so I suppose she had some excuse.
at charge, n.2
[UK] F. Norman Stand on Me 49: Now in those days I used to be a bit charlie of the law.
at charlie, adj.
[UK] F. Norman Stand on Me 52: I went home and chatted Betty into going down with me.
at chat, v.1
[UK] F. Norman Stand on Me 31: She reckoned we had better keep dead shtoom [...] so we did a creep up the stairs.
at do a creep (v.) under creep, n.
[UK] F. Norman Stand on Me 52: When i was in dock the law came round and started asking a load of dodgey questions.
at in dock (adj.) under dock, n.2
[UK] F. Norman Stand on Me 9: Tealeaves, conmen, jump-up merchants, and lay-down merchants.
at lay-down merchant, n.
[UK] F. Norman Stand on Me 57: It doesn’t look so sus if a bird drums up a gaff and someone answers the door. If I drummed up on a knocker [...] some nervous old dear [...] might fall down dead on the spot. […] She was the best drummer up in the game, and if there was anyone in the drum who wasn’t dead she would make them hear her.
at drum up (v.) under drum, v.1
[UK] F. Norman Stand on Me 7: I had been working on a fair gaff for a few summers.
at gaff, n.1
[UK] F. Norman Stand on Me 9: Tealeaves, conmen, jump-up merchants, and lay-down merchants.
at jump-up merchant (n.) under jump-up, n.
[UK] F. Norman Stand on Me 57: Evry now and then I would go out on the tealeaf.
at on the tealeaf under tea leaf, n.
[UK] F. Norman Stand on Me 47: Stick the leather in [...] Kill the c . . .
at put in the leather (v.) under leather, n.
[UK] F. Norman Stand on Me 18: Of course with my muzzle I didn’t have any chance at all.
at mozzle, n.
[UK] F. Norman Stand on Me 16: We’ll skarper first fing in the mornin’ my life we will.
at scarper, v.
[UK] F. Norman Stand on Me 22: He flogged this picture to some shnide art dealer.
at snide, adj.
[UK] F. Norman Stand on Me 58: She wasn’t all that much good at taking stopo [sic].
at take stoppo (v.) under stoppo, n.
[UK] F. Norman Stand on Me 30: I grabbed hold of her and swagged her away into a corner.
at swag away (v.) under swag, v.
[UK] F. Norman Stand on Me 23: The dealer [...] reckoned [...] no one in the world would be able to tumble it [i.e. a fake picture] in a million years.
at tumble, v.2
[UK] F. Norman Stand on Me 47: I had just knocked off work in the joint and had copped my whack off Joe.
at cop one’s whack (v.) under whack, n.1
[UK] F/ Norman Stand on Me 163: Bert began to get the needle about having taught me all the tricks of the trade, and tried to persuade me that it was a matter of honour that I didn't go bent on him.
at go bent (v.) under bent, adj.
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