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The Caretaker choose

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[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act III: Well, nobody messes me about for long.
at mess about, v.
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act II: I’d hear the bell, I’d go down there, open the door, who might be there, any Harry might be there.
at Tom, Dick and Harry, n.
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act II: But he won’t buckle down to the job.
at buckle down (v.) under buckle, v.
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act I: That was after the guvnor give me the bullet.
at give someone the bullet (v.) under bullet, n.1
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act III: All this junk here, it’s no good to anyone. It’s just a lot of old iron, that’s all. Clobber.
at clobber, n.
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act III: Don’t come it with me.
at come it, v.1
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act III: Don’t come nothing with me, mate [...] Don’t come it with me.
at come, v.3
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act I: They’re no good but at least they’re comfortable. Not much cop, but I mean they don’t hurt.
at no cop under cop, n.2
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act III: They’d take one look at all this junk I got to sleep with they’d know you were a creamer [...] Nobody knows what you’re at.
at creamer, n.
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act III: You’re up the creek! You’re half off!
at up the creek (without a paddle) under creek, n.
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act I: I could have got done in down there.
at do in, v.
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act I: I’m a bit ... a bit done in.
at done in, adj.
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act II: I can run you to the police station in five minutes, have you in for [...] daylight robbery, filching, thieving and stinking the place out.
at filch, v.1
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act III: I’m staying on here as caretaker! Get it! Your brother, he’s told me, see.
at get it?, phr.
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act II: How do you think the place is looking? I gave it a good going over.
at going-over, n.
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act III: And to put the old tin lid on it, you stink from arse-hole to breakfast time.
at put the tin hat on (v.) under tin hat, n.1
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act I: It’s different when you’re kipping out.
at kip out (v.) under kip, v.
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act I: I had a tin, only ... only a while ago. But it was knocked off.
at knocked off, adj.1
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act III: Well now, that puts the lid on it, don’t it?
at that’s put the lid on it under lid, n.
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act II: I’ve got a brother whose a number one decorator.
at number one, adj.
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act III: You’re up the creek! You’re half off!
at off, adv.4
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act I: Comes up to me, parks a bucket of rubbish at me tells me to take it out the back.
at park, v.
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act II: Now don’t get perky, son, don’t get perky. Keep your hands off my old mum.
at perky, adj.
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act II: Don’t you pull anything.
at pull, v.
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act I: Oh well ... now, mister, if you want the truth ... I’m a bit short.
at short, adj.1
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act I: The filthy skate.
at skate, n.
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act I: I got this mate in Shepherd’s Bush [...] Always slipped me a bit of soap, any time I went in there.
at slip, v.2
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act II: Dead spit of you he was. Bit bigger round the nose but there was nothing in it.
at spit, n.2
[UK] H. Pinter Caretaker Act I: All them toe-rags, mate, got the manner of pigs.
at toerag, n.1
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