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The Hooligan Nights choose

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[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 15: The basher of toffs flourishes in the Kingsland Road.
at basher, n.1
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 17: They do a bit of bashing for a toff.
at bashing, n.
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 81: There was me up ’fore the beak answerin’ a charge.
at beak, n.1
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 150: Never you mind, cocky, you done yer level.
at level (best), n.
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 29: You can’t get into a gang wivout you’ve done somefink big.
at big, adj.
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 178: Reckon ’e makes ’is little bit awright.
at bit, n.1
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 24: I was well in the thick of where the lads carry on the biz.
at biz, n.1
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 133: Burglaries are often committed on the information given away by servants [...] The young man who walks out with her [i.e. a servant girl], and takes a sympathetic interest in her employers’ affairs, rarely takes a hand in the actual work. He is known as a ‘black cap’ or ‘white sheep’, and is usually looked upon as useful in his way, but a bit too soft for the hard grind of the business.
at black cap (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 18: One of them blarsted whistles started ’em.
at blasted, adj.1
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 61: There was the little bleeder gettin’ black in the face.
at bleeder, n.
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 9: The uvver boys didn’t want asking more’n once to do a poor bloke a good turn.
at bloke, n.
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 38: It’s very kind of you to symperfise wiv us, boss.
at boss, n.2
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 101: I got me ’ooks on to a tanner an’ a couple of browns.
at brown, n.
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 62: I whipped out me bull-dog wiv six teef.
at bulldog, n.
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 37: Young Alf slashed down a bull’s eye for the drink.
at bull’s eye, n.
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 110: It seems to be an ordinary twopenny smoke. Cabbage, with a bit of tobacco-leaf wrapped round.
at cabbage, n.2
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 22: Nod to the can — which is the local term for the barman.
at can, n.1
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 40: Caught ’er one under the chib.
at chiv, n.3
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 21: Young Alf never set eyes on his father’s chivvy.
at chivvy, n.2
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 12: He drew out a handy-looking chopper.
at chopper, n.1
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 56: The servant was chucked her job.
at chuck, v.2
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 57: The servant got the chuck.
at get the chuck (v.) under chuck, n.2
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 36: A smart youngster, who had done something class in the way of nicking.
at class, adj.
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 25: The accerabat jumps up and catches me a clip over the jaw.
at clip, n.2
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 25: Every time you make a board creak, I’ll clip yer.
at clip, v.1
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 39: You slip in there, cocker.
at cocker, n.1
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 42: A copper took him off to the police station.
at copper, n.
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 49: Blackmailing is [...] only to be resorted to when you haven’t one copper to rub against another.
at copper, n.
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 52: Git back, you bloomin’ old cow.
at cow, n.1
[UK] C. Rook Hooligan Nights 63: Putting him up to about as many quiffs in crib-cracking as any boy ever got inside his napper.
at crib-cracking (n.) under crib, n.1
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