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[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 247: [of crack] This taste of easy money had Derek hooked [...] on class A product.
at class A, n.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 285: The gross of guns [...] were soon being sold at £500 a pop to anyone who [...] had the relevant ackers.
at acker, n.1
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 230: Bulldog’s crew never had an agg on their jobs [...] – even a blind man could see that these boys meant business.
at agg, n.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 61: He would lose his bottle and go home with nothing.
at lose one’s bottle (v.) under bottle (and glass), n.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 1: This lack of ruthlessness [...] was probably the reason why he was still a bread-and-butter robber and had not been invited on to any of the major robbery teams.
at bread-and-butter, adj.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 276: Most of the professionals he trusted were [...] stuck in shovel.
at shovel and pick, n.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 25: It didn’t take him long to [...] order up a couple of fallen angels to provide his entertainment.
at angel, n.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 124: Like most men in prison, Stan was burnt by the news [of his lover’s infidelity].
at burned (at), adj.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 125: Stan’s only had it away from Wandsworth.
at have it away, v.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 165: Andy, like most kiters, would often get the [cheque] books on bail and pay the supplier out of the proceeds.
at bail, n.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 121: We all hoped that he would have the bollocks to keep his mouth shut.
at ballocks, n.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 71: Neither of us has got a licence. They’d have banged us up straightaway.
at bang up, v.2
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 53: There was a big investigation into corruption in the Vice Squad [...] and a new mob came in who weren’t prepared to be bent.
at bend, v.2
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 36: He assumed that the man must be a big cheese in the bank.
at big cheese, n.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 21: Most criminals go through their careers never even getting a sniff of the Big One.
at big one, n.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 2: The last thing you want is [...] armed Old Bill on their way.
at Old Bill, n.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 111: You can’t do as many armed blags as I have done and expect to reign for ever.
at blag, n.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 79: The hot-watch man produced a jeweller’s loupe [...] ‘Well, what you have here, my friend, are a pile of Sexton Blakes [...] fakes.’.
at sexton blake, n.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 21: They would be on the blower to the Old Bill.
at blower, n.2
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 29: His every move would be recorded in his category A book [...] and this is why being category A is called ‘on the book’ by prisoners.
at on the book under book, n.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 138: Billy [...] said he would have no trouble popping the box.
at box, n.1
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 256: Pip thought this idea was a Brahmer and congratulated his divvy pal.
at brama, n.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 23: [He] had a stream of top-class brasses tending to his nightly needs.
at brass, n.2
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 295: He hired one of the best up-and-coming briefs to handle his case.
at brief, n.1
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 17: He always bungs Whizzy a nice few quid.
at bung, v.1
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 271: The desk clerk [...] told him that the bizzies were on their way up.
at busy, n.
[UK] (ref. to 1980s) N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 215: There existed at that time (i.e. 1980s) a shanty-town of homeless dwellings constructed mainly of cardboard boxes [and k]nown as Cardboard City.
at cardboard city, n.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 50: There was a lucrative deal involving four ounces of snout going down in the khazi.
at carsey, n.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 129: Dartmoor [...] another brutal khazi.
at carsey, n.
[UK] N. ‘Razor’ Smith Raiders 310: After the carve-up he and Smasher should go their separate ways and lie low .
at carve-up, n.
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