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[UK] in D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 302: He said something about having had it away with her.
at have it away (with), v.2
[UK] D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 189: And yet at least one man got to ride Teddy bareback.
at bareback, adv.
[UK] in D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 124: She was always on the purple hearts, she was always blocked up.
at blocked, adj.
[UK] D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 240: A bender, in other words, with the chance of a bunk-up thrown in.
at bunk up, n.2
[UK] D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 19: This girl was a business girl.
at business girl (n.) under business, n.
[UK] in D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 81: Fancy having to waste time on a toerag [...] when you could be taking care of real business.
at take care of business, v.
[UK] D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 238: She thought Frances’s friend Beryl was a ‘butch lesbian’.
at butch, adj.
[UK] D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 256: He wasn’t cleaning up, either. Business was bad.
at clean up, v.
[UK] in D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 53: The Desire Club, a clip joint off Dean Street, Soho.
at clip-joint, n.
[UK] D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 307: She had a sugar daddy, a motorist she’d solicited.
at sugar daddy, n.
[UK] D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 207: Mmm, she dug the Jazz Club.
at dig, v.3
[UK] D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 207: Mary Fleming [...] drank a lot, mostly whisky and mostly at dives in Notting Hill.
at dive, n.2
[UK] D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 210: A drunken Irishman appeared [...] wanting somewhere to doss.
at doss, v.
[UK] D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 203: ‘I wouldn’t breathe the air in that room. All the dirty nappies [...]’ It was a doss-hole.
at doss-hole (n.) under doss, n.1
[UK] D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 272: Teddy Smith was on the Firm, and yet he wasn’t really of the Firm.
at firm, n.
[UK] in D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 212: If they wanted to spend a fiver she would take them to the sports ground.
at fiver, n.
[UK] in D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 202: Malik specialized in [...] ‘corrective treatment for men’, so maybe Fleming was trying her hand at fladge.
at fladge, n.
[UK] D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 15: ‘The coloured man paid me with a £5 note. The bill would have come to 3/10d.’ Flash.
at flash, adj.
[UK] D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 274: He pointed at Vaughan [...] and said, ‘Look at Flash Harry.’.
at flash harry (n.) under flash, adj.
[UK] in D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 202: She’d been on the game for years.
at on the game under game, n.
[UK] in D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 76: She was frightened of the two geezers.
at geezer, n.1
[UK] in D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 211: Business is rotten. I wish I could get off.
at get off, v.2
[UK] D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 3: Duke’s Meadows. They called it Gobblers’ Gulch.
at gobbler, n.2
[UK] in D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 111: I feel sure he was having her across.
at have across (v.) under have, v.
[UK] D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 226: An Irish painter drunk out of his head.
at out of one’s head (adj.) under head, n.
[UK] D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 312: Hell’s bells, what a story: drugs, violence, kinky fun.
at hell’s bells! (excl.) under hell, n.
[UK] D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 63: He didn’t say much at all. Side of the mouth job.
at job, n.2
[UK] D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 312: Hell’s bells, what a story: drugs, violence, kinky fun.
at kinky, adj.
[UK] D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 203: You could always get a free kip at Mary’s.
at kip, n.1
[UK] in D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 43: She told me Micky Calvey had got knocked for stealing cases.
at knock, v.
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