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Adolescent Boys of East London choose

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[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 56: I’ve been all the way with girls twice.
at go all the way (v.) under all the way, adv.
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 174: They think you are a stuck-up so-and-so because you’ve got intelligence, because you want to improve yourself.
at so-and-so, n.
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 56: I could see right away she was a right banger.
at banger, n.5
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 150: The beak says they’re only sorry because they got caught.
at beak, n.1
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 56: You can always get a bit if you want it, with the girls with the big mouths.
at get a bit (v.) under bit, n.1
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 65: But I don’t argue with him. Blimey, he’s my dad.
at blimey!, excl.
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 97: Had a fight in break with a boy called Stephen S. I got a busted mouth.
at busted, adj.1
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 40: You do things you wouldn’t do on your own – smash things up, just for a laugh, or cheek some old man.
at cheek, v.1
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 28: We lark around, go up to the youth club – sometimes we get chucked out.
at chuck out, v.
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 88: If you couldn’t catch on quickly, they just clopped you round the earhole.
at clop, v.
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 157: I said to Michael, ‘Have you got four coppers. I want them for the telephone box?’ The copper went absolutely mad.
at copper, n.
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 165: He gave him a crack across the face. He practically killed him.
at crack, n.1
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 27: Anyway it was a crap school I went to.
at crap, adj.
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 152: He was going round saying I was a cunt.
at cunt, n.
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 93: You’ve got a good brain, you’re damn lazy, bone idle.
at damn, adv.
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 46: The girl may be ‘picked up’ one night and ‘dated’ by the boy who partnered her then.
at date, v.1
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 57: Just don’t take it too far, is what I think – don’t knock the daylights out of it.
at beat the (living) daylight(s) out of (v.) under daylights, n.
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 87: It was the same thing every day – dead boring, dead dull.
at dead, adv.
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 157: I bawled out at the top of my voice, ‘You dirty great cunt’.
at dirty, adv.
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 56: I got on the bed with this bird and got it in. I got the impression everybody was doing it.
at do it, v.1
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 28: Sometimes we do a job, do a warehouse, nick a load of fags.
at do, v.1
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 153: We was pulling up those ‘House to Let’ boards, and we used to dump them in the canal.
at dump, v.
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 56: A minority of girls, who, in their words, were ‘easy lays’.
at easy lay (n.) under easy, adj.
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 28: Had your bleeding eyeful, mate?
at eyeful, n.
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 56: We started kissing and I started feeling her up and that led on to it.
at feel up, v.
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 148: The governor’s on the fiddle.
at on the fiddle under fiddle, n.3
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 147: Stealing from or defrauding one’s employer – often dignified by being described as ‘knocking off’ or ‘fiddling’.
at fiddle, v.2
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 150: One of you gets a bit flashy and shouts out, ‘Who are you screwing?’.
at flash, adj.
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 45: She ran out after he tried to give her a ‘French kiss’.
at French kiss, n.
[UK] P. Willmott Adolescent Boys of East London (1969) 87: Fucking Napoleon and all that crap.
at fucking, adj.
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