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A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun choose

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[UK] C. Tsiolkas Loaded (1998) 77: Some shit skip band is on the radio.
at skip, n.3
[UK] C. Tsiolkas Loaded (1998) 8: She’s got a bad woggy haircut.
at woggy, adj.
[UK] (con. 1982) N. ‘Razor’ Smith Few Kind Words and Loaded Gun 260: They found both Steve and Popeye guilty of assault (ABH) and affray.
at a.b.h., n.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 52: Now, you fucking poor excuse for an afterbirth, when I say ‘go’, you will double your stinking little body over to that desk.
at afterbirth, n.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 109: Both me and Jel had a pony in a paper bag [...] We waited until he was under our cell, then launched the shit-parcel down on top of him.
at pony (and trap), n.
[UK] (con. 1990s) N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 413: I [...] spoke to him through the gap between the pipe and the wall. ‘Danny, what’s the apple?’.
at apple, n.2
[UK] (con. 1990s) N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 359: Stockwell Park Estate looked as rough as a docker’s armpit.
at armpit, n.
[UK] (con. 1990s) N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 352: Paul [...] found himself on the next van to Dartmoor, the arsehole of the prison system.
at arsehole, n.
[UK] (con. 1980s) N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 287: The judge agreed [...] The police were as sick as dogs.
at …a dog (adj.) under sick as…, adj.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 224: They were awesome fist-fighters.
at awesome, adj.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 162: To the true rastafarian dreadlocked hair and beard are sacred, so they would always put up a fight when ‘babylon’ (the screws) tried to shear them off.
at Babylon, n.1
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 173: He [...] had lost almost three months of it, mostly for backchatting the screws.
at backchat, v.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 116: We weren’t taking any bollocks.
at ballocks, n.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 73: I thought the young Elvis was the dog’s bollocks.
at dog’s ballocks, n.
[UK] (con. 1990s) N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 354: There are no bang-ups and, in fact, the cells are called ‘rooms’ and prisoners have their own key to their room.
at bang-up, n.2
[UK] (con. 1990s) N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 437: He had given me a nine-bar (nine ounces) of good hash.
at bar, n.1
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 119: He had the beaut of an eye that was every colour of the rainbow and a broken jaw.
at beaut, n.1
[UK] (con. 1980) N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 234: Though I might act tough on the outside and pretend that if my time came to get the big L, I would shrug it off, privately, I was shit-scared of going to prison for life.
at Big L, n.
[UK] (con. 1988) N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 321: It wasn’t the first time I had been left out on a limb by big-talking wankers.
at big talk, v.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 89: I really thought it was a bill-wagon.
at bill-wagon (n.) under Bill, the, n.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 10: This was due to one small piece of information, known only to a handful of blagging teams in the capital.
at blagging (n.) under blag, v.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 127: I was given a set of blues to wear. Prison blues consist of jeans, T-shirt and denim jacket.
at blues, n.2
[UK] (con. 1990s) N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 436: Here I was [...] being verbally abused by some two-bob muppet.
at two-bob, adj.
[UK] (con. 1990s) N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 378: Just pull off as though you’re a normal bod. [...] Don’t attract attention.
at bod, n.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 43: A kid [...] called me a ‘bog-trotting Fenian bastard’ to impress his mates.
at bogtrotting (adj.) under bog, n.3
[UK] (con. 1990s) N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 406: Major criminals who [...] are secret ‘booters’ who kid themselves that they are only ‘dabbling’.
at boot, v.5
[UK] (con. 1980) N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 238: I recognized some of them as the boot-boys from the front bar.
at boot boy (n.) under boot, n.2
[UK] (con. 1988) N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 322: I quickly wrapped the puff, tobacco and some Rizlas and match heads in a bit of plastic bag and bottled the parcel.
at bottle, v.3
[UK] (con. 1980s) N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 277: I was doing pretty well out of my semi-legitimate work, bouncing and deejaying.
at bounce, v.1
[UK] (con. 1982) N. ‘Razor’ Smith A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun 274: My work as a bouncer led to me being offered a couple of ‘minding’ jobs.
at bouncer, n.1
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