1991 D. Widgery Some Lives! 3: Then he [...] blasts the next geezer and just touches it in. Safeness.at blast, v.1
1991 D. Widgery Some Lives! 112: The East End tradition of knowing how to dress up for an outing has gone for a burton.at go for a Burton (v.) under Burton, n.
1991 D. Widgery Some Lives! 6: In its Turkish baths steam a sometimes uneasy mixture of boxers, market traders and gay cruisers.at cruiser, n.
1991 D. Widgery Some Lives! 103: Could you arrange detox for my boyfriend: he wants to come off.at detox, n.
1991 D. Widgery Some Lives! 27: It’s a bit dicky, like. [...] Maybe I will go in. As long as you don’t make me a geriatric case, Doc.at dicky, adj.1
1991 D. Widgery Some Lives! 184: Many of them, like myself, ‘greeners’ [newcomers], willing to work at anything.at greener, n.1
1991 D. Widgery Some Lives! 147: I pass the dealer’s house [...] every night and H makes the video more interesting.at H, n.
1991 D. Widgery Some Lives! 106: He’s from an age when young women were called Vera and said ‘Lord Luv A Duck’.at lord love-a-duck! (excl.) under lord love...!, excl.
1991 D. Widgery Some Lives! 173: By the mid-eighteenth century, there were also clearly defined East End Irish communities [...] In their cottages in the Cable Street area, nicknamed ‘knockvargis’, they were assumed to be ‘mumpers’ (scroungers).at mumper, n.
1991 D. Widgery Some Lives! 3: ‘And then he twines him and blasts the next geezer and just touches it in. Safeness’ (football).at safeness (n.) under safe, adj.
1991 D. Widgery Some Lives! 105: Baby-faced heroin addict from Bootle. Scally clothing, arm full of tracks.at scally, adj.
1991 D. Widgery Some Lives! 132: ‘Don’t like them silly puffers,’ she says [...] ‘Well tough because you’ve got to use them.’.at tough, adj.
1991 D. Widgery Some Lives! 4: Yesterday a health visitor at work was greeted by a four-year-old with the words ‘Fuckin’ wog.’.at wog, n.1
1991 D. Widgery Some Lives! 187: An antidote to the fatalistic motto of the Yiddish immigrant.at Yiddish, adj.