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The Frying-Pan: A Prison and Its Prisoners choose

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[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 3: I was knocking about down in the town.
at knock about, v.1
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 206: You’re an out and out bastard, mate.
at out-and-out, adj.
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 4: The blokes I was knocking around with, if we wanted something, we went and pinched it.
at knock around, v.
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 137: A right fucking oaf who doesn’t know his arse from the top of his head.
at not know one’s arse/ass from... (v.) under arse, n.
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 87: They can bang me up anywhere, I don’t care, Dartmoor, Parkhurst, Durham.
at bang up, v.2
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 7: You can watch television [...] or whatever it is you do until quarter to nine when you bang-up then and go to bed.
at bang up, v.2
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 35: In every other prison I’ve been in tobacco-baroning is always more or less the foundation of the place.
at baron, v.
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 103: Any daft trivial thing I can think of [...] to make sure I’m not behind my own door before everyone else is.
at behind one’s door under behind, prep.
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 38: She’s only herself to blame if you belt her to shut her up.
at belt, v.
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 60: When the big-wigs ask them, they come out good and pat with the answers.
at bigwig, n.
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 57: My previous billet was five years, and the next one I hope will be about the same.
at billet, n.
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 42: I’m bird-happy, that’s my trouble. I’ve done too much of it.
at bird-happy (adj.) under bird, n.4
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 207: I’d have been working like blazes to find every scrap of assistance I could.
at like (the) blazes (adv.) under blazes, n.
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 151: It’d be stupid to get my collar felt again in my mid-fifties, wouldn’t it?
at get one’s collar felt (v.) under collar, n.
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 88: Sometimes I reckon I must definitely be crackers.
at crackers, adj.
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 34: The day they brought me here, cuffed-up between a couple of screws in a private hire-car.
at cuff, v.2
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 93: Take him on your own without cuffs.
at cuffs, n.
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 49: You get some feller cutting up rough.
at cut up rough, v.
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 46: You’re still looked upon as a human being, however diabolic what you’ve done outside is in the eyes of society.
at diabolical, adj.
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 141: A week in digs it’ll be for me on my own.
at digs, n.1
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 21: A bunch of screws will go into someone’s cell and do him over physically.
at do over, v.
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 140: You don’t want to get done for life now do you?
at do, v.1
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 3: Me and some other lads broke into a store, we got done for that.
at done, adj.
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 39: Then there’s the F.P. merchants; you know — the frauds and false pretenders.
at f.p., n.
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 83: She was getting a bit fed-up then.
at fed up, adj.
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 152: What I meant by ‘filling you in’ was I thought you might like to know how it looked to a regular convict.
at fill in (on), v.
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 97: At least we’ve found somewhere that’s not a flop-house we can send homeless men to.
at flophouse, n.
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 85: Breaking into chemists’ shops and stealing Dexedrine, French Blues, anything you could dispose of within an hour.
at French blue (n.) under French, adj.
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 44: Ah, here’s a big geyser, he’ll keep them in line.
at geezer, n.1
[UK] T. Parker Frying-Pan 61: The ghost train? Yes, I’ve been on that many a time.
at ghost-train (n.) under ghost, v.
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