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[UK] S. Armitage ‘The Stuff’ in Zoom 69: Someone bubbled us. CID sussed us / And found some on us.
at bubble (and squeak), v.
[UK] S. Armitage ‘Eighties, Nineties’ in Zoom 61: Back at head office they were all going apeshit.
at go apeshit (v.) under apeshit, adj.
[UK] S. Armitage ‘Ivory’ Zoom 74: No more blab [...] or ballyhoo / Or balderdash.
at ballyhoo, n.
[UK] S. Armitage ‘The Civilians’ in Zoom 63: Behind the hen-house the jalopy is snookered: / its bodywork sound, / its engine buggered.
at buggered, adj.2
[UK] S. Armitage ‘It Ain’t What You Do It’s What It Does To You’ Zoom 20: I have not bummed across America with only a dollar to spare.
at bum, v.3
[UK] S. Armitage ‘Ivory’ in Zoom 74: No more mularkey, no baloney [...] all that caboodle / is niet dobra.
at caboodle, n.
[UK] S. Armitage ‘Canard’ in Zoom 54: It cakewalked / the field like a knife through hot butter.
at cakewalk, v.
[UK] S. Armitage ‘Ten Pence Story’ in Zoom 64: Some half-cut, ham-fisted cockney tossed me / up into the air.
at half-cut, adj.2
[UK] S. Armitage ‘Ten Pence Story’ in Zoom 64: All that vending / blunted my edges and did my head in.
at do someone’s head in (v.) under do in, v.
[UK] S. Armitage ‘Ivory’ in Zoom 74: No jackassery, or flannel, / or galumphing.
at flannel, n.2
[UK] S. Armitage ‘Bus Talk’ in Zoom 22: He said it would have to look / like the Brighton bombing before they’d even think / of forking out.
at fork out, v.
[UK] S. Armitage ‘Phenomenology’ in Zoom 24: Harold Garfinkel can go fuck himself.
at go fuck yourself! (excl.) under fuck, v.
[UK] S. Armitage ‘All Beer and Skittles’ in Zoom 17: He was sodding this for a game of soldiers and angling for a lift into town.
at fuck that/this for a game of soldiers! (excl.) under fuck, v.
[UK] S. Armitage ‘All Beer and Skittles’ in Zoom 16: He had a hair up his arse / at the best of times.
at have a (wild) hair up one’s ass (v.) under hair, n.
[UK] S. Armitage ‘Not the Bermuda Triangle’ in Zoom 75: And as for the estate it is simply hard cheese.
at hard cheese (n.) under hard, adj.
[UK] S. Armitage ‘All Beer and Skittles’ in Zoom 17: So I slung my hook and went for a coffee.
at sling one’s hook, v.
[UK] S. Armitage ‘Ivory’ in Zoom 74: No more mularkey, no baloney.
at malarkey, n.
[UK] S. Armitage ‘Poem by the Boy Outside the Fire Station’ in Zoom 42: He’s only ever missed a call-out once / when he was getting to the pitch with his missis.
at missis, n.
[UK] S. Armitage ‘Team Lada’ in Zoom 71: Racing home to burnt suppers; late, but with / a bouquet of excuses, keeping mum / about pit stops in the Coach and Horses.
at keep mum (v.) under mum, adj.
[UK] S. Armitage ‘The Stuff’ in Zoom 69: C.I.D. sussed us and found some on us.
at suss out, v.
[UK] S. Armitage ‘All Bee and Skittles’ in Zoom 17: By the time we got back [...] Fairbrother had scarpered and Gideon’s fizzog / said he couldn’t be bothered.
at phiz, n.1
[UK] S. Armitage ‘All Bee and Skittles’ in Zoom 17: This job, he assured me, / was a piece of piss and we’d sew it up tomorrow / Chaps, I’ve got a vote for Hughie—but it ain’t no monte yet.
at piece of piss (n.) under piece, n.
[UK] S. Armitage ‘Team Lada’ in Zoom 71: Racing home to burnt suppers; late, but with / a bouquet of excuses, keeping mum / about pit stops at the Coach and Horses.
at pit stop, n.
[UK] S. Armitage ‘Remembering the East Coast’ in Zoom 76: Like organic farming: / it was small potatoes.
at small potatoes, n.
[UK] S. Armitage ‘Resonant Frequencies’ in Zoom 52: Since his expulsion from the Royal Society / he had pulled the plug on printed circuits.
at pull the plug on (v.) under pull, v.
[UK] S. Armitage ‘The Stuff’ in Zoom 68: One punter surfaced in the ship-canal / having shed a pair of concrete-slippers.
at punter, n.
[UK] S. Armitage ‘Canard’ in Zoom 54: Poetry was rhubarb.
at rhubarb, n.1
[UK] S. Armitage ‘Finding Your Own Feet’ in Zoom 72: Dempsey would have given / his right arm to be as hot in the saddle / as he was in the ring.
at in the saddle (adj.) under saddle, n.
[UK] S. Armitage ‘Ivory’ in Zoom 74: No more cuffuffle / or shenanigans.
at shenanigan, n.
[UK] S. Armitage ‘Finding Your Own Feet’ in Zoom 72: Showing / a clean pair of heels.
at show (someone) a (clean) pair of heels (v.) under show, v.
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