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[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 43: I’ll knock the back out of you, Susie.
at knock the back out of (v.) under back, n.1
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 27: Not to give way to her [...] but to bash for his own satisfaction.
at bash, n.1
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 35: The great thing is not to get big-headed.
at big-headed (adj.) under big head, n.1
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 147: It cost big money.
at big, adj.
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 145: I had bought new clothes and I walked among the big shots like one of them.
at big shot, n.
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 5: If they drop that big cookie I can always go down to the beach and swim out into the warm sea.
at big cookie (n.) under big, adj.
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 37: So I was stuck with it. My big mouth.
at bigmouth, n.
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 62: The blackies rolling dice in side alleys.
at blackie (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 6: An ambition to make a book.
at book, n.
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 61: His situation is very much like that of the nancy boy.
at nancy boy, n.
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 61: I should have given him the brush-off again.
at give someone the brush(-off) (v.) under brush-off, n.
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 130: Of course, you think you’re the cat’s whiskers, don’t you?
at cat’s whiskers, n.
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 60: I’ve read all Mickey Spillane, but he lacks class.
at class, n.
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 45: The first day at Lincoln I copped a winner.
at cop, v.
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 170: I’ve known two or three get copped for it. Six months is about what you’d get.
at copped, adj.
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 150: ‘Harry, what are you going to do?’ ‘Make a crust.’.
at crust, n.1
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 83: My mummy [...] used to put powder on my dinkle.
at dink, n.2
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 41: The club is in an alley off Aldgate. Not a spieler but a right dive.
at dive, n.2
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 71: I didn’t wink at him, or mutter any doggish remarks.
at doggish (adj.) under dog, n.2
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 59: Where the fraternity of the doggies and the ponies gather.
at dogs, the, n.
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 73: I had seen horses nobbled, dogs doped.
at dope, v.1
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 217: Maybe it is some personal thing that eats me.
at eat, v.
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 9: It was a fix. The race was fixed.
at fixed, adj.1
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 6: All the sort that flute ‘Mummy’ and ‘Daddy’ in high-class accents.
at flute, v.1
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 10: I have to keep this front up.
at front, n.1
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 143: I should say I’ve been ---ed by two thousand men in the last five years.
at fuck, v.
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 120: Gee! [...] I’m sorry, Mr Siskin.
at gee!, excl.
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 147: Look how quickly they got the girls off the streets.
at girl, n.1
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 187: Your goons called on me last night.
at goon, n.1
[UK] A. Baron Lowlife (2001) 170: So you, you greenhorn, you babe in arms, you poor innocent nit, you think you can just walk in and win?
at greenhorn, n.
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