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Dead Souls choose

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[Scot] I. Rankin Dead Souls 4: It wouldn’t matter a damn.
at not matter a damn, v.
[Scot] I. Rankin Dead Souls 156: It seems like a lot of hard work and sweet FA to show for it.
at sweet Fanny Adams, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Dead Souls 76: Hardmen from Glasgow’s Bar-L.
at Bar L, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Dead Souls 4: ‘Salisbury Crag’ has become rhyming slang in the city. It means scag, heroin.
at Salisbury Crag, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Dead Souls 281: Off you go now. POETS day, you know, weekend coming up.
at poet’s day, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Dead Souls 4: ‘Morningside Speed’ is cocaine.
at Morningside speed, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Dead Souls 260: ‘Out on a ran-dan?’ she said.
at on the rantan under rantan, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Dead Souls 95: The Customs officer had decanted the contents of his bag [...] change of clothes, a couple of razzle mags.
at razzle mag (n.) under razzle, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Dead Souls 71: ‘Not a sausage,’ Rebus admitted.
at not a sausage under sausage, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Dead Souls 116: He had a deal with an older kid at school, who supplied packets of twenty in exchange for scud mags.
at scud mag (n.) under scud, v.
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