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The Scarperer choose

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[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 45: I got the two one-and-ones and a bit of salt an’ vinegar.
at one-and-one, n.1
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 78: Besides, the old whistle and flute he got, you wouldn’t be caught dead in.
at whistle (and flute), n.
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 12: But I th-thought you were the other side – in the shovel – in Parkhurst. [Ibid.] 22: The shovel and pick, the nick. The Joy. Jail.
at shovel and pick, n.
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 40: You might put the arm on him for a few quid.
at put the arm on (v.) under arm, n.
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 42: Limey says the dough is as safe as houses.
at ...houses under safe as..., adj.
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 14: Bedad and he has the heart crossways in you.
at bedad!, excl.
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 62: I know who gave yous the bend, but if he shopped me I can double-shop him.
at bend, n.3
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 67: You don’t say one dicky-bird to her.
at dicky-bird, n.2
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 28: Concepta shouted a farewell. ‘Up the blue room.’.
at blue room (n.) under blue, adj.1
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 109: It’d ruin me if I was caught with a gang of bowsies the likes of yous.
at bowsie, n.
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 83: Bring in the box [...] and we’ll get on with the body.
at box, n.1
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 109: Where would the likes of me get a pint? Ninety bullets for a bottle.
at bullet, n.2
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 114: Well, they will have the idea you’re on the trot from the Kate Kearney.
at Kate Carney, n.
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 24: ‘Many a good man’s case,’ said the sergeant.
at case, n.1
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 11: They were in some other chat-shop. [Ibid.] 211: He slept on the landings of tenement houses and spent the price of his flop, when he had it, on chat.
at chat, n.5
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 33: ‘That’s the door of the hang-house,’ [...] ‘I know,’ said Tralee Trembles. ‘We used to call it the dance-hall.’.
at dancehall (n.) under dance, n.1
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 58: He’s certainly a dead ringer for the Limey.
at dead ringer, n.
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 52: It’s a dinger, ain’t it?
at dinger, n.1
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 104: ‘There’s clever men and one sort of them drinks,’ muttered Eddie. ‘Which gives the drop to the ones who don’t,’ said the Limey boozily.
at drop, n.1
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 78: It looks to me like you geezers, the Scarperer and all, thought that I might take a powder and not pay you on the odds for taking me out of that drum.
at drum, n.3
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 38: ‘Would you like a ball of malt in the morning?’ [...] ‘Would a duck swim?’.
at can a duck swim? under duck, n.1
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 31: Of course it doesn’t hurt, you little eedgit.
at eejit, n.
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 94: Hey, fishface.
at fish-face, n.
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 26: Oh, look out, we’re going past the Plaza now, the picture-house. Smashing follyer-upper. I go to it every Sunday.
at follower-upper, n.
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 37: I know you’ve a lot of form and I know what you’d get.
at form, n.1
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 150: Hey, you frog rat jackmanstink from the back of the pipes.
at frog, adj.
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 74: A hard chaw that ganged around the quarter.
at gang, v.
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 37: The gelt is as safe as the Bank of England.
at gelt, n.
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 106: Your gills here, he says he doesn’t understand English.
at gill, n.1
[Ire] B. Behan Scarperer (1966) 109: I’m not going round with a lot of gougers the like of yous and ruin me chances.
at gouger, n.
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