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[UK] J. Worby Other Half 51: You can sure teach me a thing or two.
at know a thing or two, v.
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 170: They all helped me generously to blue my money.
at blew, v.2
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 50: What are you blowing off about?
at blow off, v.2
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 161: I’m a busker. I chant in the streets.
at busker, n.
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 184: ‘Better drive round till we come to an all-night cozzy’ [...] ‘Yes,’ he said. ‘I think I could do one too.’ We soon arrived at the cozzy and the Brains said: ‘You go in first and I’ll wait in the tub.’.
at cozzy, n.
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 114: I got into the front seat [...] while the other two hobos sat at the back in the dickie seat.
at dicky, n.3
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 61: You’ve slept with more guys than I’ve had hot dinners.
at have had more — than one has had hot dinners (v.) under dinner, n.
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 61: Oh gee! If I hadn’t fell for you the way I did, I’d never have gone double with you and let you do what you did.
at go double (v.) under double, adv.
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 101: I just got off a freight coming into town when a bull gets the drop on me.
at get the drop(s) (on) (v.) under drop, n.1
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 220: I was drumming up on the outskirts of a small village.
at drum up, v.1
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 277: Fiddle, to go about begging from different people.
at fiddle, v.2
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 214: My dark companion tried her best to persuade me to take a partnership with her in her swag basket as she said she wanted a gadgie.
at gadgy, n.
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 78: I could sure go a cup of coffee right now.
at go, v.
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 161: I’m a busker. I chant in the streets. But the game’s played out now [...] Have you ever done any griddling?
at griddle, v.
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 49: What name do you travel by when you’re not grub-staking?
at grubstake, v.
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 171: I get good dough. I had it off to-night for five pounds.
at have it off, v.
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 77: I was soon surrounded by a company of hobos [...] inquiring whether I needed any help. I replied: ‘No thanks. I can do my own jungling up’.
at jungle (up) (v.) under jungle, n.
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 60: How am I to know you ain’t some guy’s Moll? I don’t want my block knocked off, get me?
at moll, n.
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 62: I’m a good moocher and I can always get a dollar or two off mugs in the cities.
at moocher, n.
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 278: Mystery, a girl who is down and out, come to London to look for a job.
at mystery, n.
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 162: You do the singing and I’ll do the knobbing.
at nob, v.
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 114: He pulled up at a large, brightly lit-up café [...] ‘Come on then!’ he said. ‘Get yur nose-bags on!’.
at put on the nosebag (v.) under nosebag, n.
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 184: Drive away as fast as you can where the Boys tell you and the job will be a piece of cake.
at piece of cake (n.) under piece, n.
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 278: Pitch the tale, using your brains to concoct a tale so that the other person will believe it.
at pitch the tale (v.) under pitch, v.
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 169: I patted this ‘queen’ on the head and said: ‘Well, dear ...’.
at queen, n.
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 278: Red, gold.
at red, adj.
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 244: I’m fed up with being always on the ribs and living on my wits.
at on the ribs (adj.) under rib, n.1
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 223: He asked me if I was ribby [...] and he stood me a tea and a pie and a packet of fags.
at ribby (adj.) under rib, n.1
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 78: Hold on a bit, ’bo. I’ll go and get you some tins to shackle up in.
at shackle up, v.
[UK] J. Worby Other Half 238: ‘Well, you know how it is, Bonzo,’ he replied. ‘A bit of a stray.’ ‘Yeah!’ I said. ‘That bit of a stray is my dame.’.
at stray, n.1
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