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[UK] ‘Red Collar Man’ ‘Chokey’ 81: An example of this ‘backing and filling’ is my recorded impressions of the jailers.
at back and fill, v.
[UK] ‘Red Collar Man’ ‘Chokey’ 92: What with barmies [...] and the not infrequent holy rows, chokey could be very lively.
at barmy, n.
[UK] ‘Red Collar Man’ ‘Chokey’ 196: I tell you he’s as bent as a dog’s hind leg.
at bent as a dog’s hind leg (adj.) under bent, adj.
[UK] ‘Red Collar Man’ ‘Chokey’ 153: Pearson was tried at last and sentenced to twenty-four strokes with the cat.
at cat, n.3
[UK] ‘Red Collar Man’ ‘Chokey’ 99: ‘Chivs’ are razor blades fixed in a piece of wood and are very nasty weapons.
at chiv, n.1
[UK] C. Mackenzie in Chokey 9: The prison slang for bread [...] known as ‘choke’.
at choke, n.1
[UK] ‘Red Collar Man’ ‘Chokey’ 77: A lag called Jiimmie was sent to chokey for attacking the cook.
at chokey, n.
[UK] ‘Red Collar Man’ ‘Chokey’ 128: Claude on one occasion so got the jailer’s goat that he was put in a silent cell.
at get someone’s goat (v.) under goat, n.1
[UK] ‘Red Collar Man’ ‘Chokey’ 172: Articles are valued as worth so many inches of ‘hard’, which is twist or plug tobacco, and one may often hear one lag say to another: ‘I’ll give you an inch for it‘.
at hard, n.
[UK] ‘Red Collar Man’ ‘Chokey’ 177: I found that Holy Joe, a principal jailer who, besides being excessively religious, was a holy terror.
at holy Joe, n.
[UK] ‘Red Collar Man’ ‘Chokey’ 60: ‘Think I’m going all the way to the Island without a smoke?’ he snarled at the screw.
at Island, the, n.
[UK] ‘Red Collar Man’ ‘Chokey’ 182: Jame’s body was gently swaying, suspended from his neck to two handkerchiefs tied to the electric light conduit. [...] He had only just ‘taken off.’.
at take off, v.2
[UK] ‘Red Collar Man’ ‘Chokey’ 49: My life in Parkhurst Prison was, however, very different from the existence led by the ordinary convict. I was employed as a red collar man, or to use a term imported from the U.S.A. and one which is never used in English jails, a ‘Trusty’.
at red-collar (adj.) under red, adj.
[UK] ‘Red Collar Man’ ‘Chokey’ 85: If [...] something is found, tobacco or a stiff (i.e., a letter), or money, he is kept in chokey.
at stiff, n.1
[UK] ‘Red Collar Man’ ‘Chokey’ 164: Swagging and planting was another racket. [...] To swag in jail is to carry and to plant is to hide or keep.
at swag, v.
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