Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

Walking With Ghosts choose

Quotation Text

[UK] J. Baker Walking With Ghosts (2000) 82: I got hold of this dope while we were in Nepal. Temple balls. It blew my brains out.
at temple balls, n.
[UK] J. Baker Walking With Ghosts (2000) 167: Gambles everything he’s got. Comes away from the table without a bean.
at bean, n.1
[UK] J. Baker Walking With Ghosts (2000) 60: I’ll give Marie and J.D. a bell.
at give someone a bell (v.) under bell, n.1
[UK] J. Baker Walking With Ghosts (2000) 83: You’ll take it away and give me a weight of Nepalese temple balls that’s guaranteed to blow my mind.
at blow one’s mind, v.
[UK] J. Baker Walking With Ghosts (2000) 83: You’ll take it away and give me a weight of Nepalese temple balls that’s guaranteed to blow my mind.
at blow someone’s mind, v.
[UK] J. Baker Walking With Ghosts (2000) 182: I’m jingle-brained with dope and goofy about this woman here.
at jingle-brained, adj.
[UK] J. Baker Walking With Ghosts (2000) 182: Don’t be a bunny.
at bunny, n.1
[UK] J. Baker Walking With Ghosts (2000) 44: ‘Yes, these little chaps’ – he indicated the pupa of the blowflies.
at chap, n.
[UK] J. Baker Walking With Ghosts (2000) 70: I never expect it to start. This must be the oldest crate in the universe.
at crate, n.
[UK] J. Baker Walking With Ghosts (2000) 2: A telephone/fax/intercom gismo.
at gizmo, n.
[UK] J. Baker Walking With Ghosts (2000) 291: I tried to kick him in the grapes.
at grape, n.1
[UK] J. Baker Walking With Ghosts (2000) 10: Lady Day had her first taste of hard drugs.
at hard, adj.
[UK] J. Baker Walking With Ghosts (2000) 47: She lammed off with another woman.
at lam, v.2
[UK] J. Baker Walking With Ghosts (2000) 13: Joan’s something big in Women’s Lib now.
at lib, n.2
[UK] J. Baker Walking With Ghosts (2000) 61: ‘I just have to shake the dew from my lily.’ He made his way [...] to the lavatory.
at shake the dew off one’s/the lily (v.) under lily, n.
[UK] J. Baker Walking With Ghosts (2000) 5: I bet if it wasn’t two and a half mill you’d have paid him by now.
at mill, n.2
[UK] J. Baker Walking With Ghosts (2000) 162: Geordie was getting a real peach of a woman.
at peach, n.1
[UK] J. Baker Walking With Ghosts (2000) 116: She’s piss-poor.
at piss-poor (adj.) under piss-, pfx
[UK] J. Baker Walking With Ghosts (2000) 83: He gave Wimp his right hand, said, ‘Press the flesh, my man’.
at press the flesh (v.) under press, v.
[UK] J. Baker Walking With Ghosts (2000) 70: He’s very fond of it. Put him back nearly three hundred notes.
at put someone back (v.) under put, v.1
[UK] J. Baker Walking With Ghosts (2000) 291: Careful. He’s Radio Rental.
at radio (rental), adj.
[UK] J. Baker Walking With Ghosts (2000) 275: A man with a raggedy beard.
at raggedy, adj.
[UK] J. Baker Walking With Ghosts (2000) 201: I’ll get some beer in, and we can slob out in front of the television.
at slob out (v.) under slob, n.1
[UK] J. Baker Walking With Ghosts (2000) 292: Don’t be a sprout.
at sprout, n.1
[UK] J. Baker Walking With Ghosts (2000) 181: He [...] accepted a couple of tokes from J.D.’s magic stash.
at stash, n.1
no more results