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‘A Short Guide for Jumbles’ in England, Half Eng. (1960) 26: A peculiarity about any coloured ‘bad boys’ one may encounter is that [...] they often seem delightful personalities.at bad boy, n.
‘A Short Guide for Jumbles’ in England, Half Eng. (1960) 26: A peculiarity about any coloured ‘bad boys’ one may encounter is that [...] they often seem delightful personalities. ‘A Short Guide for Jumbles’ in England, Half Eng. (1960) 27: Coloured addicts [...] make the same sort of distinction between those who ‘charge’ (smoke hemp) and those who ‘pop’ (inject heroin and so on).at charge, v.2
‘A Short Guide for Jumbles’ in England, Half Eng. (1960) 19: What is a jumble? You are and I, if we are white. The word’s a corruption of ‘John Bull’, and is used by West Africans of Englishmen in a spirit of tolerant disdain.at jumble, n.
‘Sharp Schmutter’ in England, Half Eng. (1960) 148: No hat: unless rear-buckled cap, or a very small-brimmed [...] lid.at lid, n.
‘Sharp Schmutter’ in England, Half Eng. (1960) 149: Let’s begin by describing schmutter a sharp kid wouldn’t be seen dead in.at schmutter, n.
‘The Other Man’ in England, Half Eng. (1960) 140: Thousands of others who spend millions of pounds [...] subsidizing ‘the game’.at game, n.
‘The Express Families’ in England, Half Eng. (1960) 32: George is [...] Giles’s idea of a working-class highbrow.at highbrow, n.
‘The Other Man’ in England, Half Eng. (1961) 142: The ponce’s air of having a function [...] which totally distinguishes him from the mere ‘ligging’ layabout.at lig, v.2
‘The Other Man’ in England, Half Eng. 141: If the prostitute were to ‘shop’ her ponce he might very well carve her up.at shop, v.1
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