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[UK] J. Arden Live Like Pigs XVI: I’ll stop in at the Beer-off, get us some bottles; give you a whistle; then we can all go.
at beer-off (n.) under beer, n.
[UK] J. Arden Live Like Pigs Act IV: There’s one blue screw to bite no padlocks onto no poor boys no more.
at blue, adj.5
[UK] J. Arden Live Like Pigs Act II: You living with their daddy till you die? Burning likely your living with him, hey?
at burning, adj.
[UK] J. Arden Live Like Pigs Act I: You put us. Coppers put us – all the lot of narks.
at copper, n.
[UK] J. Arden Live Like Pigs X: Eh you’d never see him. All you’d be seeing’s that daisy from the next house, ent it?
at daisy, n.
[UK] J. Arden Live Like Pigs Act III: Big Rachel found, like, a wallet... Three quid in it, see. Me mam had half-a-dollar too.
at half-dollar, n.1
[UK] J. Arden Live Like Pigs XII: True choice at Northampton got you a dandy job, I don’t think.
at I don’t think, phr.
[UK] J. Arden Live Like Pigs Act IV: Give us a drain for her, Col... (He seizes a bottle from Col, and gives it to Daffodil.).
at drain, n.1
[UK] J. Arden Live Like Pigs XVI: I’ll take some o’ the empties while I’m on the job. There’s money in ’em.
at empty, n.1
[UK] J. Arden Live Like Pigs Act II: Oh go to hell, you and your fizzing husband.
at fizzing, adj.
[UK] J. Arden Live Like Pigs Act I: Ah, hold your old gob, will you, I’m leading as much of the weight as you.
at hold one’s gob (v.) under gob, n.1
[UK] J. Arden Live Like Pigs Act IV: Let’s get her to a bed, eh. Where can we kip her down?
at kip, v.
[UK] J. Arden Live Like Pigs XII: sailor: A man can work and he gets glory, right? / rachel: He gets lolly too, boy.
at lolly, n.4
[UK] J. Arden Live Like Pigs XIV: Those bastards’d chase you from Newcastle to Cornwall. They’re worse nor the bloody Peelers.
at peeler, n.2
[UK] J. Arden Live Like Pigs XII: Shut the bloody row!
at shut one’s/the row (v.) under row, n.1
[UK] J. Arden Live Like Pigs Act IV: Here’s the Old Croaker, she’s daft and she’s dizzy, but she can shovel in the scouse, me lovely, can’t you?
at scouse, n.
[UK] John Arden Live Like Pigs Act VIII: Fair shocking disgusting.
at shockingly, adv.
[UK] J. Arden Live Like Pigs XI: She’s a bit shook-up, and of course, her blouse and that are all torn, but she’s all right.
at shook up (adj.) under shook, adj.
[UK] J. Arden Live Like Pigs Act III: I’ve done ever such a soft thing, I went out to work this morning and left my key behind.
at soft, adj.
[UK] J. Arden Live Like Pigs XVII: Williams! There’s a couple got away across the gardens with some sort of swag.
at swag, n.1
[UK] J. Arden Live Like Pigs Act I: So rob their houses, tumble their girls, / Break their windows and all.
at tumble, v.1
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