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Flame: A Life on the Game choose

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[UK] J. Pidgeon Flame 21: Still quite a one for the birds is our Jack. He’ll be getting his leg over in the pension queue.
at get one’s leg over (v.) under leg, n.
[UK] Flame : a Life on the Game 20: Sandra had a criminal record as long as your arm.
at as long as one’s arm (adj.) under arm, n.
[UK] Flame : a Life on the Game 28: At school where I’d occasionally hear people being described as ‘bum bandits’ who played ‘arse poker’.
at arse poker (n.) under arse, n.
[UK] Flame : a Life on the Game 58: There were fifteen policemen in the room [...] they called me everything – ‘arse-bender’, ‘queer’, ‘cock-sucker’.
at arse bandit, n.
[UK] Flame: a Life on the Game 81: We did the usual things that threesomes do. One in the mouth, one up the back, all that rubbish.
at back, n.1
[UK] Flame : a Life on the Game 93: Oh, you stupid bollock.
at ballock, n.
[UK] Flame : a Life on the Game 99: Take him by the balls when he’s giving you one, and pull them.
at balls, n.
[UK] Flame: a Life on the Game 140: I couldn’t prove to anyone that it wasn’t me who had blabbed to the police.
at blab, v.
[UK] Flame : a Life on the Game 138: I was fast asleep when the Boys in Blue raided Betty’s.
at boys in blue, n.
[UK] Flame : a Life on the Game 117: A big butch number walked in. Dead bona.
at bona, adj.
[UK] Flame : a Life on the Game 63: A little mirror from a budgie’s cage.
at budgie, n.1
[UK] Flame : a Life on the Game 152: I thought I had haemmorrhoids, but it turned out they were anal warts. They froze the buggers off.
at bugger, n.1
[UK] Flame : a Life on the Game 28: At school where I’d occasionally hear people being described as ‘bum bandits’ who played ‘arse poker’.
at bum bandit (n.) under bum, n.1
[UK] Flame : a Life on the Game 39: John gave me a bunk-up and I landed on the grass on the other side.
at bunk up, n.1
[UK] Flame : a Life on the Game 107: I was in an indecisive frame of mind, unable to settle. My arse, as they say, was making buttons.
at one’s arse makes buttons (v.) under button, n.1
[UK] Flame : a Life on the Game 150: Poppit slapped up to the eyeballs and camp as Clarry.
at camp as Chloe (adj.) under camp, adj.
[UK] Flame : a Life on the Game 122: I’d do miraculous things with a pound of potatoes and a couple of carrots and a cauli.
at cauli, n.
[UK] Flame: a Life on the Game 145: I heard a siren in the distance and I conked out again. I woke up a week later in hospital.
at conk (out), v.
[UK] Flame : a Life on the Game 147: ‘Well, fucking crap in the sink, too,’ I shouted.
at crap, v.2
[UK] Flame : a Life on the Game 79: She would make sure that the club wasn’t diddling me, by keeping an eye on exactly what my clients and I would consume.
at diddle, v.2
[UK] Flame : a Life on the Game 132: I was gagging, and I knew I was done for unless I did something brutal.
at done for, adj.
[UK] Flame : a Life on the Game 53: I wondered [...] whether his experiences with a thirteen year old drag queen had been too much for him.
at drag queen, n.
[UK] Flame : a Life on the Game 127: Piss-elegant, boring queens. Most of them were really dull.
at piss-elegant, adj.
[UK] Flame : a Life on the Game 93: We heard an almighty scream: ‘What the fuck!!!’.
at what the fuck!, excl.
[UK] Flame : a Life on the Game 37: They ended up making a bigger fuck-up of it.
at fuck-up, n.
[UK] Flame : a Life on the Game 139: Tommy came waltzing in and declared that it was me who had blown the gaff.
at blow the gaff (v.) under gaff, n.1
[UK] Flame : a Life on the Game 113: A gay club? It had never struck me that there would be a gay club in Bournemouth.
at gay, adj.
[UK] Flame : a Life on the Game 58: I [...] visualise myself on my hands and knees surrounded by old cans and bits of wood, getting screwed gutless.
at gutless, adv.
[UK] Flame: a Life on the Game 97: Two of the other bunks were occupied by hetero couples.
at hetero, adj.
[UK] Flame : a Life on the Game 55: A group of black boys started chatting me up, calling me a ‘white honky woman’.
at honkie, adj.
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