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The Dead Sea Poems choose

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[UK] S. Armitage ‘C.V.’ in Dead Sea Poems 7: Square eyes, half-arse O.U. student.
at half-assed, adj.
[UK] S. Armitage ‘Give’ Dead Sea Poems 14: You give me tea. That’s big of you.
at big, adj.
[UK] S. Armitage ‘D-notice’ in Dead Sea Poems 31: To hold my noise for ever, that / would be my pleasure.
at hold your noise! (excl.) under noise, n.1
[UK] S. Armitage ‘C.V.’ in Dead Sea Poems 8: Shredded trash, dug out top brass [...] took rap for P.M.’s body odour.
at take the rap (v.) under rap, n.1
[UK] S. Armitage ‘The Two of Us’ in Dead Sea Poems 33: You’ve got the lot, the full set: / chopper, Roller, horse-drawn carriage.
at Roller, n.
[UK] S. Armitage ‘D-notice’ in Dead Sea Poems 30: Clamp the jaw, put / a sock and not a foot in it.
at put a sock in it (v.) under sock, n.1
[UK] S. Armitage ‘The Two of Us’ in Dead Sea Poems 32: You on-stream, piped-up, plugged-in [...] tighter than a turtle’s snatch.
at tighter than a turtle’s snatch (adj.) under tight, adj.
[UK] S. Armitage ‘Goalkeeper with a Cigarette’ in Dead Sea Poems 16: That’s him [...] togged out in turtleneck pyjama-suits.
at togged out (to the nines) (adj.) under togged, adj.
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