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[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 59: I’m aces with crushing remarks.
at aces, adj.
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 160: The Daimler barrelled up the alley towards me.
at barrel, v.2
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 98: For you, Eddie, be my guest.
at be my guest, phr.
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 175: ‘So you’ve no money on you, then?’ ‘Not a bean,’ I said.
at not a bean (n.) under bean, n.1
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 74: You can’t go out on the bevvy when you are stoked up on librium and valium.
at bevvy, n.
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 23: No sooner did he have a bevvy and a bird lined up, than the boss of the place stuck a wad of notes in his hand.
at bevvy, n.
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 84: She was one of those old biddies you see in the Wine Lodge, drinking to the memory of the girls who fell here during the war.
at biddy, n.2
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 121: I swear I knew nothing about the black lad. Other than I told the girl he was okay [...] They wanted her, Eddie. Not the blackie.
at blackie (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 38: I often fantasize on what it’s like to be Ball, Harvey or Husband playing a blinder at Wembley.
at blinder, n.1
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 166: I think my ears are on the blink, Fats.
at on the blink (adj.) under blink, n.1
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 101: A decent, law-abiding citizen who finds himself in a jam [...] should head straight the boys in blue and tell all.
at boys in blue, n.
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 25: Don’t flip your wig, buster.
at buster, n.3
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 23: I always carry my buzzer — the clubs I’ve not been a member of that it’s got me into!
at buzzer, n.3
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 124: Come on, chief, we’ve been in ten minutes.
at chief, n.
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 22: Taffy [...] asked me what I wanted, gnashing the false choppers.
at choppers, n.
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 124: No headlines [...] reading ‘Police seek comedian to help in Enquiries. Student dead.’ The cooled Azinge obviously wasn’t hot.
at cool, v.3
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 174: ‘Where’s the money, lad?’ ‘Down the cop shop.’.
at cop shop (n.) under cop, n.1
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 163: ‘My time in America wasn’t entirely wasted,’ she said. ‘That where you copped for the phoney accent?’.
at cop for, v.
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 143: Whatever she’d given him was enough to do for a dinosaur.
at do for, v.
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 144: ‘Out goes old-style, fuddy-duddy, Board of Trade,’ she said.
at fuddy-duddy, adj.
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 166: I think my ears are on the blink, Fats.
at Fats, n.
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 25: The folding green [...] Money. Twenty dollars a day plus expenses.
at folding green, n.
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 58: I’d made my play, displayed my gat and got a fat nothing in response.
at gat, n.1
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 15: ginley’s the name / gumshoe’s the game.
at gumshoe, n.
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 61: You imagine coming home from a day slogging your guts out, looking forward to Match of the Day [...] and finding your telly gone.
at sweat one’s guts out (v.) under gut, n.
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 60: Nothing to do but watch the television and let their kids kick hell out of the telephone boxes and bus shelters.
at kick (the) hell out of (v.) under hell, the, phr.
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 23: The boss of the place stuck a wad of notes in his hand and gave him the high sign.
at high sign, n.
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 13: ‘Some great people were hypos — Darwin . . . er.’ He struggled to think.
at hypo, n.1
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 60: Still wears a slim-jim, drainpipes and big suede shoes.
at Slim Jim, n.
[UK] N. Smith Gumshoe (1998) 39: I’m just an ordinary Joe, says 31-today Eddie Ginley.
at joe, n.1
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