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[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 24: We know that’s a lot of pony-and-trap. [Ibid.] 165: I mean all. All the good stuff as well as all the pony.
at pony (and trap), n.
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 88: The rest is all pony-and-trap, jargoon, in other words im-i-tashun.
at pony (and trap), n.
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 164: He is a natty little geezer in a forty-guinea whistle.
at whistle (and flute), n.
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 13: He was over by the wardrobe, fingering a lovely full-length ‘pen’. [Ibid.] 21: She insisted on our leaving behind three of the finest pen-and-ink smothers I ever set eyes on.
at pen (and ink), n.
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 111: Most of them being locals, real swede-bashers, hairy types, some of them in for farmyard offences.
at hairy-arsed, adj.
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 159: As for having my back scratched, I like it. It tickles. This, of course, was a reference to the cat.
at have one’s back scratched (v.) under back, n.1
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 15: After being caught, debagged, and ducked in a fountain.
at de-bag, v.
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 26: That meant I was a Red Band, a trusty who could move freely about the prison without having to be escorted by a screw.
at red band (n.) under band, n.2
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 100: Ten free cigarettes – much to the annoyance of the snout barons. [Ibid.] 138: Soon Charlie was established as the leading tobacco boss, or Snout Baron, in the prison.
at baron, n.
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 164: ‘Aunt Polly’ the lodger [...] was on the batter.
at batter, v.
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 184: They drove down there in Toby’s battle-wagon, which was a large battered shooting-brake.
at battle wagon (n.) under battle, n.
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 164: I had just done my first stretch at the Scrubs and was feeling full of beans. If that was bird I could do it on my ear.
at full of beans (adj.) under beans, n.3
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 29: It had been a beast of a job.
at beast of a… (n.) under beast, n.
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 43: He gave him a private belting.
at belting (n.) under belt, v.
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 41: Much thought is given to the causes of crime: i.e. why blokes go bent.
at go bent (v.) under bent, adj.
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 41: Much thought is given to the causes of crime: i.e. why blokes go bent. [Ibid.] 203: Members of the bent fraternity are very conventional [...] in their attitude to some things.
at bent, adj.
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 45: You was born bent as a bootlace, boy!
at bent as a butcher’s hook (adj.) under bent, adj.
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 36: There’s a pen-and-ink (mink) and Betty Grable (sable).
at Betty Grable, n.
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 123: Sorry, baby, I can’t take you out tonight. I got a big ’un on.
at big one, n.
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 157: He was [...] doing life for blacking a clergyman.
at black, v.
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 205: Top-drawer judies who curse like stable-boys and breakfast off black velvet.
at black velvet (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 97: They wouldn’t tell him the actual date or the place they’d blag the pay-roll in case they gave him away.
at blag, v.
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 125: Johnnie [...] got his back scratched for blagging a screw.
at blag, v.
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 183: A tearaway [...] doesn’t mind a job that involves a bit of blagging – i.e., violence, whether it’s tying up a warehouse night-watchman or slugging it out with the crew of a squad car.
at blagging (n.) under blag, v.
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 122: Johnnie, instead of blueing his crinkle on the dogs, bought Frankie four art-silk frocks.
at blew, v.2
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 202: Two first-offenders at the Scrubs had blotted their copy-books and been sent over to join the recidivists.
at blot one’s copybook, v.
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 194: He blew the local C.I.D. and they, having been alerted about hot pussies of all descriptions, blew the Yard.
at blow, v.1
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 156: He screamed blue murder to the Chief Officer.
at scream blue murder (v.) under blue murder, n.
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 152: Touting for an outfit that supplied blue film shows to tired business men.
at blue, adj.3
[UK] ‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 9: When the bogies were about to search him on some very hot sus, he swallowed a flipping great sapphire. [Ibid.] 75: Bent bogies – i.e., unscrupulous police officers.
at bogey, n.1
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