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The Keys to the Street choose

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[UK] R. Rendell Keys to the Street 190: ‘Oh, get a life!’ said Valerie, slamming the area door.
at get a life!, excl.
[UK] R. Rendell Keys to the Street 187: They were a rag, tag and bobtail crew, shuffling along these immaculate paths.
at rag, tag and bobtail, n.
[UK] R. Rendell Keys to the Street 273: The pharmacy where his mother’s repeat prescription for barbs was regularly dispensed.
at barbs, n.
[UK] R. Rendell Keys to the Street 125: He was in this bin for most of the Eighties.
at bin, n.
[UK] R. Rendell Keys to the Street 288: He wanted something with which to wash down two black beauties and a crystal methedrine. He needed pepping up.
at black beauty (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] R. Rendell Keys to the Street 130: A faint chance that he’d left a tab or even some blow – who was he kidding – in the pockets.
at blow, n.3
[UK] R. Rendell Keys to the Street 129: A couple of Es? Some cycles?
at cycline, n.
[UK] R. Rendell Keys to the Street 189: Let me have a dekko.
at dekko, n.
[UK] R. Rendell Keys to the Street 129: A couple of Es?
at E, n.
[UK] R. Rendell Keys to the Street 111: She wasn’t the sort to pin your ears back and he despised her for her gentleness.
at pin someone’s ears back (v.) under ear, n.1
[UK] R. Rendell Keys to the Street 130: A job that was big enough to keep you in rocks or that elephant dope for the rest of your life?
at elephant (tranquillizer) (n.) under elephant, n.
[UK] R. Rendell Keys to the Street 136: It’ll cost you a Hawaii [...] Fifty smackers.
at Hawaii, n.
[UK] R. Rendell Keys to the Street 59: The meths and water mixture, cloudy white fluid the jacks men called milk.
at jack, n.14
[UK] R. Rendell Keys to the Street 229: ‘Dig your elephants,’ he said, and then he said, ‘Jumbo, jumbo,’ and started laughing.
at jumbo, n.
[UK] R. Rendell Keys to the Street 3281: He’d never been interested in acid, microdot, mushrooms or any of that stuff.
at microdot, n.
[UK] R. Rendell Keys to the Street 59: The meths and water mixture, cloudy white fluid the jacks men called milk.
at milk, n.
[UK] R. Rendell Keys to the Street 134: A bit of muck on the pavement.
at muck, n.1
[UK] R. Rendell Keys to the Street 266: He’d never asked his mother, but the answer probably was she was too shellacked to take him.
at shellacked, adj.
[UK] R. Rendell Keys to the Street 134: Maybe she was running short of cash [...] and thought soft soap might secure her a discount.
at soft soap, n.
[UK] R. Rendell Keys to the Street 283: He needed something to bring him down. Yellow jackets or Vs.
at V, n.7
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