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Tucker and Co. choose

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[UK] P. Redmond Tucker and Co 14: We all have to watch it in case he jumps us. Someone should put the bubble in.
at put the bubble in (v.) under bubble (and squeak), v.
[UK] P. Redmond Tucker and Co 54: Right pain in the bum she is about Canada. Wish she’d bloomin’ well stopped there.
at pain in the arse, n.
[UK] P. Redmond Tucker and Co 99: Let’s go down the precinct on the blimp then.
at on the blimp under blimp, n.2
[UK] P. Redmond Tucker and Co 106: You’ll have to get it together and ask her then, won’t you? Even if she does blow you out, you’ll have sorted it one way or the other.
at blow someone out, v.
[UK] P. Redmond Tucker and Co 61: Zammo was puzzled to see no sign of Jonah. He was beginning to wonder if he’d decided to bunk off.
at bunk (off) (v.) under bunk, v.1
[UK] P. Redmond Tucker and Co 35: Chinky; paki; wog and so on and so on.
at Chinky, n.
[UK] P. Redmond Tucker and Co 28: Come on, I want to lock up [...] Come on. Chop chop.
at chop-chop!, excl.
[UK] P. Redmond Tucker and Co 85: Corker! That’s it, isn’t it?
at corker, n.2
[UK] P. Redmond Tucker and Co 63: Don’t want to blow it, do you? We’ll probably only get one crack at it.
at crack, n.1
[UK] P. Redmond Tucker and Co 83: She’s crackerbarrel really, he told himself.
at crackerbarrel, adj.
[UK] P. Redmond Tucker and Co 25: There, just sticking out, was the scuffed toe-cap of a pair of DM’s.
at DMs, n.
[UK] P. Redmond Tucker and Co 106: Right, I mean, can’t have Mooney getting the drop on you, can you?
at get the drop(s) (on) (v.) under drop, n.1
[UK] P. Redmond Tucker and Co 80: We often spend all break and all lunchtime playing footey.
at footie, n.
[UK] P. Redmond Tucker and Co 9: They’d already had one brush with Gripper Stebson, now the unchallenged school headcase, and Jonah didn’t fancy the idea of another.
at headcase, n.
[UK] P. Redmond Tucker and Co 97: ‘Jack it in will you?’ Benny moaned.
at jack (in), v.
[UK] P. Redmond Tucker and Co 47: Don’t knacker it. Must have taken Roly ages to make that.
at knacker, v.
[UK] P. Redmond Tucker and Co 61: Leave off! Where’ve you been?
at leave off! (excl.) under leave, v.
[UK] P. Redmond Tucker and Co 46: Oi, deaf lugs. I’m talking to you!
at lug, n.1
[UK] P. Redmond Tucker and Co 14: Why do you reckon nutjobs like Gripper carry on like they do?
at nut-job (n.) under nut, n.2
[UK] P. Redmond Tucker and Co 98: Alan gave an exaggerated sniff, ‘You’re always a bit off!’.
at off, adv.1
[UK] P. Redmond Tucker and Co 80: As soon as we have to do it in games we start to skive off.
at skive, v.
[UK] P. Redmond Tucker and Co 48: Take a squint at this.
at squint, n.
[UK] P. Redmond Tucker and Co 21: We can’t let him get away with it, Jonah, or he’ll just keep stinging us otherwise.
at sting, v.
[UK] P. Redmond Tucker and Co 85: He kicked it over, did a wheelie and sped off.
at wheelie, n.1
[UK] P. Redmond Tucker and Co 83: A cracking shot at the back of Pongo Yates’s head. Zap.
at zap!, excl.
[UK] P. Redmond Tucker and Co 84: The magazines had scored a zilch in the inspiration department.
at zilch, n.1
[UK] P. Redmond Tucker and Co 106: He trudged off to detention for the zillionth time.
at zillion, n.
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