1970 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.
1970 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.
1970 T. Parker Frying-Pan 87: They can bang me up anywhere, I don’t care, Dartmoor, Parkhurst, Durham.at bang up, v.2
1970 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
1970 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.
1970 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.
1970 T. Parker Frying-Pan 60: When the big-wigs ask them, they come out good and pat with the answers.at bigwig, n.
1970 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.
1970 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
1970 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.
1970 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.
1970 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
1970 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.
1970 T. Parker Frying-Pan 21: A bunch of screws will go into someone’s cell and do him over physically.at do over, v.
1970 T. Parker Frying-Pan 3: Me and some other lads broke into a store, we got done for that.at done, adj.
1970 T. Parker Frying-Pan 39: Then there’s the F.P. merchants; you know — the frauds and false pretenders.at f.p., n.
1970 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.
1970 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.
1970 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.
1970 T. Parker Frying-Pan 61: The ghost train? Yes, I’ve been on that many a time.at ghost-train (n.) under ghost, v.