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Tramp at Anchor 159: The discussion as to [...] whether one had a tiddley or a laugh (i.e., a drink or a smoke).at laugh and joke, n.
Tramp at Anchor 159: The discussion as to [...] whether one had a tiddley or a laugh (i.e., a drink or a smoke). Tramp at Anchor 152: The man involved was the grass who had ‘put me away’.at put away, v.
Tramp at Anchor 160: A balmy is a man who is prepared and even anxious to short-circuit the many little evasions and pretences of civilized life.at balmy, n.
Tramp at Anchor 179: There were very few Bitch’s Bastards at Parkhurst, but they made life a misery for everyone, convicts and warders alike. [...] The elderly B.B.’s were very naive [...] gossiping in their gutter jargon with strangers.at bitch’s bastard, n.
Tramp at Anchor 179: There were very few Bitch’s Bastards at Parkhurst, but they made life a misery for everyone, convicts and warders alike. [...] The elderly B.B.’s were very naive [...] gossiping in their gutter jargon with strangers.at bitch’s bastard, n.
Tramp at Anchor 176: He snooks it working belty, and nuts the orly mug.at belty, adv.
Tramp at Anchor 84: If that bleeder Phelan fell into a cesspool he’d open a bleedin’ scent-factory.at bleeder, n.
Tramp at Anchor 21: His trade was what would have been called in the Middle Ages that of a bravo, a tough whose services could be bought by any wealthy crook.at bravo, n.
Tramp at Anchor 21: The big man was the redoubtable Harry Johnston, a notorious ‘chiv-man’.at chiv artist (n.) under chiv, n.1
Tramp at Anchor 135: I have never choked him off, as he sometimes carried a message.at choke off, v.
Tramp at Anchor 176: I want that bleeder chokeyed. Unauthorized. A plug.at chokey, v.
Tramp at Anchor 160: ‘Shall I chuck a dummy?’ That meant — should he have an epileptic fit.at chuck a dummy (v.) under chuck, v.2
Tramp at Anchor 179: Tike me davy that bleeder ’ad a comb an’ slider in ’is flowery.at comb, n.1
Tramp at Anchor 39: I began to learn the twiddle, the dairy, the cop and pass.at cop and pass (n.) under cop, v.
Tramp at Anchor 177: The Bastard feels his cosh-poke. He pulls up Number One.at cosh-poke (n.) under cosh, n.
Tramp at Anchor 39: I began to learn the twiddle, the dairy, the cop and pass.at dairy, n.2
Tramp at Anchor 179: Tike me davy that bleeder ’ad a comb an’ slider in ’is flowery.at davy, n.
Tramp at Anchor 67: I can still smell the stink of one of those ‘drums,’ as they were called.at drum, n.5
Tramp at Anchor 176: He snooks a balmy Judas, and sees him coppa duff.at duff, n.1
Tramp at Anchor 111: One’s hated enemies, atheists, sub-human savages, frog-eaters, Frenchmen.at frog-eater, n.
Tramp at Anchor 185: Trains a jackdaw to fetch in fag-ends.at fag end, n.
Tramp at Anchor 92: Some of them inside parties is fair bleedin’ murder.at fair, adv.
Tramp at Anchor 10: Beggars and ballad-singers and gay girls and tramps passing through.at gay girl (n.) under gay, adj.
Tramp at Anchor 205: ‘Gaw bly mee,’ muttered Denny Delaney.at gorblimey!, excl.
Tramp at Anchor 75: A grass is a man who makes a practice of giving information to the authorities about other prisoners.at grass, n.3
Tramp at Anchor 110: Men who were not burglars nevertheless habitually used words like [...] groin, when they meant [...] ring.at groin, n.
Tramp at Anchor 151: Nothing could be ‘hung on my door’ — blamed on me.at hang on someone’s door (v.) under hang, v.2
Tramp at Anchor 167: If the convict were not completely acquiescent the ‘heavy squad’ gave him a tanning.at heavy mob, n.
Tramp at Anchor 163: It got round that I was ‘very hot’ as an iron-worker.at hot, adj.
Tramp at Anchor 110: Men who were not burglars nevertheless habitually used words like stick, jacob, swag, peter, groin, when they meant jemmy, ladder, bundle, safe or ring.at jacob, n.1
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