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Down by the Dockside choose

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[UK] C. Rohan Down by the Dockside 128: Phyl was dancing with one of Yvonne’s Yankees. ‘I’ll put that bitch on her arse,’ Yvonne told me.
at put someone on the arse under arse, n.
[UK] C. Rohan Down by the Dockside 215: Do you want a belting?
at belting (n.) under belt, v.
[UK] C. Rohan Down by the Dockside 214: ‘How much money have you got?’ ‘I haven’t got any. I thought you’d pay.’ I roared with laughter. ‘God! Charlie,’ I said, ‘you must think you’re the five-alarm charmer.’.
at five-alarm (adj.) under five, adj.
[UK] C. Rohan Down by the Dockside 187: In the big room at the back was the slyg, (beer 7s. 6d. a bottle).
at sly-grog, n.
[UK] C. Rohan Down by the Dockside 127: The Scots were called Big Jock and Wee Jock.
at Jock, n.
[UK] C. Rohan Down by the Dockside 189: I am now the complete gunman’s moll.
at moll, n.
[UK] C. Rohan Down by the Dockside 127: Taffy [...] had been keeping nit at the corner.
at keep nit (v.) under nit!, excl.2
[UK] C. Rohan Down by the Dockside 212: He arrived plastered to the eyeballs, full as a State school.
at plastered, adj.1
[UK] C. Rohan Down by the Dockside 215: They’re only bloody poufters when all’s said and done.
at poofter, n.
[UK] C. Rohan Down By The Dockside 176: Bluey Gleeson said [...] that Clarrie would never be anything except a small-time shit kicker if he lived to be a hundred.
at shitkicker, n.
[UK] C. Rohan Down by the Dockside 212: I take you, Charlie, for a small time crim on the skids.
at on the skids under skids, n.
[UK] C. Rohan Down by the Dockside 212: She gave me a quid now and then. I never stood over her for it. She’s wrapped in me, see?
at wrapped, adj.
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