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[UK] Sun. Times Perth 17 Sept. 1/3: A Subiaco cag-mag merchant should conduct his canoodles in private.
at canoodle, n.1
[UK] Sun. Times 2 Mar. 1: Alternative offered to the water drinkers of Trenton: Typhoid if the water isn’t ‘doped’ with hypochlorite of lime; an itch if it is [DA].
at dope, v.1
[UK] Sun. Times 22 Feb. 4/1: This, to use the current phrase, hot-making play .
at -making, sfx
[UK] in Sun. Times 7 July n.p.: Put in the schwarzes and de-stat it.
at de-stat, v.
[UK] Sun. Times 5 June n.p.: ‘Put me down at Battalion HQ,’ he calls to the pilot. ‘There’s sniper fire reported on choppers in that area, General.’.
at chopper, n.1
[UK] Sun. Times 5 June n.p.: Jeez, I’m so glad you was along, that worked out just dandy.
at dandy, adv.
[UK] Sun. Times 5 June n.p.: There’s nothing alive in there [...] Or they’d be skedaddling. Yes there is, by golly.
at by golly! (excl.) under golly!, excl.
[UK] Sun. Times 5 June n.p.: ‘How do you know those aren’t just frightened peasants?’ ‘Running? Like that? Don’t give me a pain.’.
at give someone a pain in the neck (v.) under pain (in the neck), n.1
[UK] Sun. Times 7 Aug. 10: Call me a Liverpudlian, or even a Scouse.
at Scouse, n.
[UK] Sun. Times 5 June n.p.: Where in hell are the cartridges in this ship?
at ship, n.1
[UK] Sun. Times 5 Feb. 17: A system that allows him to pass his test one day in a 10-year-old ‘banger’ and climb straight into a 150 mph Jaguar the next [etc.].
at banger, n.3
[UK] Sun. Times 8 Jan. 3/7: Len is widely regarded as London’s top ‘shiner’ (window cleaner) .
at shiner, n.3
[UK] Sun. Times 24 Sept. 35: University? That’s just dragsville.
at -ville, sfx1
[UK] Sun. Times 26 Apr. 34: He has good reason for embarrassment for the Americans seemed to have dropped a fair sized clanger.
at drop a clanger (v.) under clanger, n.1
[UK] Sun. Times 11 Aug. 5: The activities of pop managers and professional ‘hypers’ have for a long time created doubts about the accuracy of the Top Thirty lists.
at hyper, n.
[UK] Sun. Times 5 Jan. 11: Big John with his immense experience had things under his personal control (‘Crack on lads!’ was a favourite Big John order).
at crack on, v.1
[UK] Sun. Times 12 Jan. 4: The agenda, usually the cause of great fiction, was accepted ‘on the nod’.
at on the nod under nod, n.1
[UK] Sun. Times 23 Mar. 28: Hot meal vending machines in the lobby for late night noshers.
at nosher, n.
[UK] Sun. Times 21 Sept. 12: But it isn’t just the Papist agin the Prods.
at Prod, n.
[UK] Sun. Times 25 Jan. 29: The theoretical mathematics of the situation are positively mind-bending.
at mind-bending, adj.
[UK] Sun. Times 15 May 53: Some of the cast I suspect were flannelling, but there are two spellbinding performances by Ian Hogg and Pat Hartley.
at flannel, v.
[UK] Sun. Times 4 Jan. 27: Every property man you talk to says that London County Freehold was a snip.
at snip, n.
[UK] Sun. Times 15 Nov. 3/5: Plausible, highly-paid ‘winklers’ who are hired by property companies and landlords to persuade families to leave their rent-controlled tenancies so the homes can be sold at high prices.
at winkler, n.
[UK] Sun. Times 4 Apr. 10: Now we have the Cooperative Wholesale Society, though some think today’s divi isn’t really worth it.
at divvy, n.1
[UK] Sun. Times 18 July 26: ‘Folie En Tête’ is her own title for this book, and exactly right. A head-trip, lasting 180,000 words.
at head trip, n.
[UK] Sun. Times Mag. 7 Oct. 55: If there’s an air crash, we may postpone a BOAC ad for a day.
at ad, n.1
[UK] Sun. Times Mag. 30 Sept. 38: He was trying to show me that he was a bad john. I just put him right. I just show him he ain’t no boss over me, boy.
at bad john (n.) under bad, adj.
[UK] Sun. Times Mag. 30 Sept. 38: Course them bloodklatt do.
at blood claat, n.
[UK] Sun. Times Mag. 30 Sept. 34: I must miss my boogie on a Saturday night.
at boogie, n.4
[UK] Sun. Times Mag. 30 Sept. 33: A prison van passes, and one boy turns to the others: ‘A sweatbox!’.
at sweat-box, n.
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