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[UK] Time Out 21 Jan. 3/3: [heading] Not so much an offy... More a vintner.
at offie, n.
[UK] Time Out 28 Jan.–3 Feb. 15/3: LBC’s runaround with Alexander Walker on the week’s new films.
at runaround, n.
[UK] Time Out 17–23 June 65/5: The Scots should win the drinking by a street.
at by a street under street, the, n.
[UK] Time Out 8 Jan. 14: Black youth, comfortable with its spliffs, disdains glue-sniffing ... or ‘blowsing’ as it is often called by glue-sniffers among themselves [DSUE].
at blowsing, n.
[UK] Time Out 10–16 Dec. n.p.: His self-styled punk rock combo [KH].
at combo, n.2
[UK] Time Out 6–13 Dec. 131/4: [advert] Andy Cairns’ Belfast trio hardened their sound even more for this year’s ‘Infernal Love’ album, a move that delighted both their metal contingent and their indie fans who like a mosh.
at mosh, n.
[UK] (ref. to 1951) Time Out (Chicago) 2 Nov. 🌐 he language is so steeped in local slang that it occasionally needs a translator. Case in point, Algren fought with his editor to title the afterword to the book ‘Ode to Kissassville: Or, Gone on the Arfy-Darfy’.
at on the arfy-darfy under arfy-darfy, n.
[UK] Time Out 28 Oct. 🌐 11 essential Edinburgh slang terms [...] 1. 'Shan' Definition: Unfair, disappointing, terrible, bad. Often used in conjuction with ‘pure’ (ie ‘very’) to denote extreme shanness.
at shan, adj.
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