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[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 114: Do me a favour!
at do me a favour, phr.
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 130: Cats don’t give a damn.
at not give a damn, v.
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 105: A little Brasso and a dry rag – come up a treat.
at treat, a, adv.
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 44: It took imagination, and time, and a great deal of money for these spoiled wealthy girls to appear down and out.
at down-and-out, adj.
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 157: I think he lost his bottle.
at lose one’s bottle (v.) under bottle (and glass), n.
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 40: It was a John Baldwick, living in some armpit in east London.
at armpit, n.
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 49: Bang on Prince of Wales Drive.
at bang, adv.
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 153: Oh, belt up.
at belt up (v.) under belt, n.
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 70: ‘Gordon Bennett!’ Jocko said, and in spite of myself I laughed out loud at the exclamation.
at Gordon Bennett!, excl.
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 15: Being bisexual is a big thing in Europe these days. Everyone’s gay.
at big thing, n.
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 19: I’ve been looking over your bio. It’s really impressive.
at bio, n.2
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 112: ‘You never know with blackies,’ she said.
at blackie (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 70: They smoke marijuana in the bogs.
at bog, n.1
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 70: The boy called Nigel said, ‘American schools are brilliant at sports.’.
at brilliant, adj.
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 154: He was dressed like a man in the English Department bucking for promotion.
at buck for, v.
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 75: Bull! It’s precisely in that category.
at bull!, excl.
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 155: It was a Polish freighter, full of butch sailors.
at butch, adj.
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 141: We were [...] the classic canoodling pair, kissing on a park bench.
at canoodle, v.
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 150: Forgot our thermal underwear, didn’t we, chicken?
at chicken, n.
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 71: Hussein’s father weighs about twenty stone! Beavis said he looks like a chucker-out.
at chucker-out, n.
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 28: He said he knew ‘Eddie Pahang’. Very chummy.
at chummy, adj.
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 79: I’ve got a pretty clean record, sir.
at clean, adj.
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 106: Some of this stuff gives me the collywobbles, don’t it?
at collywobbles, n.
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 73: They are often jocks who regard more thoughtful men as cookie-pushers.
at cookie-pusher, n.
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 151: Listen to the incurable cottager!
at cottage, v.
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 17: They’re very modern laid-back people with a house full of crap art and heads full of crap opinions.
at crap, adj.
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 15: I don’t care what you do [...] but you’re not taking this creep into my house.
at creep, n.
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 153: Crikey, I feel better. I needed that coffee.
at crikey!, excl.
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 114: If the British knew the kind of information we had on them in this thing, they’d deep-six every one of us.
at deep six, v.
[UK] P. Theroux London Embassy 152: I’ve done my back in I don’t know how many times.
at do in, v.
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