1964 A. Bennett God the Stonebreaker 139: You must treat me just the same as if you was working for ‘backra people’.at backra, adj.
1964 A. Bennett God the Stonebreaker 177: He often escorts white women. There he is with another low-type bird, maybe she’s in the ‘business’.at business, n.
1964 A. Bennett God the Stonebreaker 130: You must ’ave come from the slums yourself, you is just a hurry-come-up mackerel.at hurry-come-up, n.
1964 A. Bennett God the Stonebreaker 170: A crow. That’s what he is, even if he wear peacock feathers.at crow, n.2
1964 A. Bennett God the Stonebreaker 34: She liked Parson Allen although he acted so ‘fool-fool’ at times.at foo-foo, adj.
1964 A. Bennett God the Stonebreaker 39: Her room was a depository also for thousands of pounds’ worth of narcotics, chiefly the noxious weed known as ganja.at ganja, n.
1964 A. Bennett God the Stonebreaker 4: A ‘no-good mulatto’ man who would not look after his own offspring.at no-good, adj.
1964 A. Bennett God the Stonebreaker 6: They put the woman’s few jeng-jeng outside and moved the ’ouse on rollers.at jeng-jeng, n.
1964 A. Bennett God the Stonebreaker 13: Sue regretted that her ‘age’, station and lack of beauty prevented her from getting hints, known as ‘rakes’ in the Drop Pan jargon.at rake, n.2
1964 A. Bennett God the Stonebreaker 52: This might be a good ‘rake’ indeed. Let’s buy number twelve.at rake, n.2
1964 A. Bennett God the Stonebreaker 9: If you and the rest live righteously, there will be no work for the police.at righteously, adv.
1964 A. Bennett God the Stonebreaker 118: Lying bastard. Damn lying stinker! T’ief! Crooked brute!at stinker, n.1
1964 A. Bennett God the Stonebreaker 139: Me love me own race and like to see them rise, but tell you the truth, me is afraid when them elevate. [...] They get ‘stocious’, if you know what I mean.at stocious, adj.2
1964 A. Bennett God the Stonebreaker 192: GB poured a dry sherry, commenting as she smacked her lips [...] ‘This is luvly stuff’.at stuff, n.
1964 A. Bennett God the Stonebreaker 173: With a swanky swagger, Panty glided over the thick red carpet.at swanky, adj.
1964 A. Bennett God the Stonebreaker 177: I always feel he’s going to touch me for a loan. I reckon he’s some kind of spiv or bum.at touch (someone) for (v.) under touch, v.1
1964 A. Bennett God the Stonebreaker 108: Him couldn’t be my son because me is a respectable married woman. When yella-skin people wort’less, they is worse than pure black negra!at yellow, adj.