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[UK] A. Wright A Rogue’s Luck (1931) 161: Blime, it was dead crook ter leave th’ moll in th’ lurch.
at blimey!, excl.
[UK] A. Wright A Rogue’s Luck (1931) 162: If yer c’n fight, keep yer block, an yer got er chance.
at keep one’s block (v.) under block, n.1
[UK] A. Wright A Rogue’s Luck (1931) 161: Gor blime, oncet you get on th’ flute about th’ good old days of th’ game, yer dead ter talk orl night.
at on the flute under flute, v.1
[UK] A. Wright A Rogue’s Luck (1931) 162: I can’t ’ave no rough-ups ’ere, y’know; give th’ place er bad name.
at rough-up, n.
[UK] A. Wright Gamblers’ Gold (1931) 109: I blued me cheque drinkin’.
at blew, v.2
[UK] A. Wright Gamblers’ Gold (1931) 82: I’ll bump you every time.
at bump, v.1
[UK] A. Wright Gamblers’ Gold (1931) 7: Early in the afternoon the last rough ‘cobbler’ lost his matted fleece, and the shed was ‘cut out’.
at cobbler, n.1
[UK] A. Wright Gamblers’ Gold (1931) 7: Early in the afternoon the last rough ‘cobbler’ lost his matted fleece, and the shed was ‘cut out’.
at cut out, v.3
[UK] A. Wright Gamblers’ Gold (1931) 109: I ain’t goin’ to be dog enough to send you along now.
at dog, adj.
[UK] A. Wright Gamblers’ Gold (1931) 104: ‘Been on a jamboree, mate?’ [...] ‘Something like that. Knocked down a cheque in Germanton.’.
at knock down, v.
[UK] A. Wright Gamblers’ Gold (1931) 109: I blued me cheque drinkin’ and gaffin’.
at gaff, v.1
[UK] A. Wright Gamblers’ Gold (1931) 111: Started a gaffin’ school on th’ railway job.
at gaffing, n.
[UK] A. Wright Gamblers’ Gold (1931) 54: He [...] engaged in the hopeless task of trying to win the Rabbit-O man’s money.
at rabbit-o, n.
[UK] A. Wright Gamblers’ Gold (1931) 74: ‘Pannikin boss’ Tom Foran, known as ‘Tommy the Pig’ to the men, raged at his gang of shovellers.
at pannikin boss (n.) under pannikin, n.
[UK] A. Wright Rung In (1931) 305: He [...] knocked the top off a bottle and poured out the amber fluid.
at amber fluid (n.) under amber, adj.
[UK] A. Wright Rung In (1931) 257: He’s been used to back o’ beyond, where women are scarce.
at back of beyond (n.) under back, adv.
[UK] A. Wright Rung In (1931) 262: So you two have chummed up.
at chum, v.
[UK] A. Wright Rung In (1931) 260: They are both rich men and as pretty a pair of ‘guns’ as ever prospered on the gullibility of the sporting public.
at gun, n.5
[UK] A. Wright Rung In (1931) 304: Have you the needful? I’ve a thirst on me that would kill a camel.
at needful, n.
[UK] A. Wright Rung In (1931) 261: A poor unfashionable rider pulls his mount [...] and he is had up and ‘outed’ by the stewards.
at out, v.2
[UK] A. Wright Rung In (1931) 267: It might be only some foolhardy ‘shark baiter’ as he heard the more venturesome of the bathers termed.
at shark-bait (n.) under shark, n.
[UK] A. Wright Rung In (1931) 271: I saw one of the reporters and pitched him a tale.
at pitch a tale (v.) under tale, n.1
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