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[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 7: Sun shines out of his arse as far as she’s concerned.
at think the sun shines out of someone’s ass under ass, n.
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 95: I’ve even been known to talk to it, and when I catch meself doing that I say, Hey up, Jean, you get put away for doing that.
at put away, v.
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 71: Next time you fancy a bit just shove it up your arsehole and make a jug handle of it, right?
at bit, n.1
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 7: She says three month, but I’m blowed if I can see it. I think it’s a small baby and she’s a hell of a lot further on.
at I’ll be blowed! (excl.) under blowed, adj.1
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 56: If it ever got round she was doing that the other girls’d be down on her like a ton of bricks.
at like a ton of brick(s) (adv.) under brick, n.
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 113: She was one of the only two wicked people I’ve known, and I’ve known some bruisers.
at bruiser, n.
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 1: You’d only have a carry-on and wake every bugger up.
at carry-on, n.
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 31: ‘Like if there was a police car there he’d go and park beside it.’ ‘Oh, charming!’.
at charming!, excl.
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 124: She can’t have been a chicken, by this time.
at chicken, n.
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 19: Audrey clicked first. Brenda made a great show of taking the number.
at click, v.3
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 5: She was going the right way for a clip round the ear, but she couldn’t stop.
at clip, n.2
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 52: She took chances [...] and of course she got clobbered.
at clobber, v.2
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 82: I stood outside the Comp and I watched a bloke pick a girl up.
at comp, n.
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 50: ‘Stuck up cow,’ Kath said, and jabbed two fingers in the air at the woman’s retreating back.
at cow, n.1
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 22: He’d never crack on what he earned.
at crack, v.1
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 22: He kept most of the money back, and he’d never crack on what he earned.
at crack on, v.2
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 116: I didn’t crack on I knew.
at crack, v.3
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 26: All George ever really wanted was sucking [...] he actually disliked cunt.
at cunt, n.
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 128: They still share the dibs out, same as usual.
at dibbs, n.
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 74: There was all hell let loose if you forgot and called her Waddle, because she did, you know. Duck’s disease.
at duck’s disease (n.) under duck, n.1
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 2: She’s got nowt there to sag [...] Pair of fried eggs!
at fried eggs, n.2
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 1: Brenda rounded on her, ‘Shut your face, you.’.
at shut one’s face (v.) under face, n.
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 117: But of course she managed to get me going in the end.
at get going, v.
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 17: She’d been on the go since six.
at on the go under go, n.1
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 4: He wasn’t that far gone: he was at the nasty-nice stage when most of the rows took place.
at gone, adj.1
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 87: It wasn’t fucking Father Christmas that got him that, it was me. And damned hard graft.
at graft, n.2
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 26: ‘I’m afraid he’s not quite ready,’ he said.
at he, n.
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 107: Oh dear me, could I hell do anything with him.
at could I hell! (excl.) under — hell!, excl.
[UK] P.T. Barker Blow Your House Down 113: Every time the poor old bitch tried to get out Gloria plants her hoof between the old girl’s tits and shoves her back again.
at hoof, n.
[UK] P. Barker Blow Your House Down 8: If you do go on, you’re raking it in. It’s the one time you really do make money.
at rake (it) in, v.
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