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Decadence and Other Plays choose

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[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 74: All the abes used to sit outside in Anthony Street.
at Abe, n.
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 59: On the streets a victim of nuclear aggro.
at aggro, n.
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 67: How’s Doris – the imbiber of thy resin with her holy North and South.
at north (and south), n.
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 57: How many up and downs have thee got stacked away merrily depreciating unless thou dost invest wisely and shed a few on the market.
at up-and-down, n.1
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 64: I pacify her with a quick, svelte and heroic in and out.
at in-and-out, n.1
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 70: I’m a Harley Davidson with ape-hangers.
at apehangers (n.) under ape, n.
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 79: A J. Arthur reluctantly given.
at J. Arthur (Rank), n.
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 51: The two of us got thick as tea leaves.
at ...thieves under thick as..., adj.
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 50: Have it away, before the law doth mark us for accessory.
at have it away, v.
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 68: I saw the most awful cracker. A right darlin’.
at awful, adj.
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 49: Put the boot in with shrieks of ‘bollocks!’.
at ballocks!, excl.
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 60: He, flashing his comb through his barnet.
at barnet (fair), n.
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 71: [I] start up my beauty once more nice and gently.
at beauty, n.1
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 66: Me the other half of nothing.
at better half, n.
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 57: Loose-tongued garbage in the vile [...] with a blah blah.
at blah, n.
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 62: Pop eyed for a pathetic wet customer to bleed.
at bleed, v.1
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 60: Let me be a bloke and wear trousers stuffed.
at bloke, n.
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 49: Blue-bottles with truncheons hard as iron.
at bluebottle, n.
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 48: Pimples sprouting forth like buttercups on sunny days from off his greasy boat.
at boat, n.2
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 75: Of course I’m not ninety-six you stupid bonehead.
at bonehead, n.1
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 58: He swiftly chews us up and spits us out again . . . the almighty boot!
at boot, the, n.
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 47: Irish yobs [...] peep about for dishonourable bother.
at bother, n.
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 75: She was honoured by our great and glorious Queen. She went down to Buck House.
at Buck House, n.
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 62: Two nifty lads went round the back to bundle.
at bundle, v.
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 47: OK I’ll bung thee a snout, Les.
at bung, v.1
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 62: We always bunged them whatever size we had in stock.
at bung, v.1
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 77: He’d be fumbling with my cami, my cami-knickers that is.
at cami, n.
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 62: Your bird that you pulled round for stand-up charvers.
at charver, n.1
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 58: Hearts would break as he swiftly chews us up and spits us out again.
at chew up, v.
[UK] S. Berkoff East in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 77: He took my hand rather boldly I thought – and placed it on his chopper.
at chopper, n.1
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