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A Pink ’Un and a Pelican choose

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[UK] Binstead & Wells Pink ’Un and Pelican 270: I wouldn’t mind a damn for meself, sir, but I’ve got my bit o’ trouble at home.
at not give a damn, v.
[UK] Binstead & Wells Pink ’Un and a Pelican 229: The ‘After-Dark’ stooped to pick it up.
at after-dark, n.
[UK] Binstead & Wells A Pink ’Un and a Pelican 86: Go on, guv’nor, it’s all ‘Sir Garnet’ now!
at all Sir Garnet, phr.
[UK] Binstead & Wells Pink ’Un and Pelican 149: Bob and his particular chum Oats (which is short rhyming slang for Charley. ‘Oats-and-barley’ it is in full, but the true art of it lies in the abbreviation) [F&H].
at oats (and barley), n.
[UK] Binstead & Wells A Pink ’Un and a Pelican 272: Well, well, round goes the world; here’s to the first game ever played at!
at play the first game ever played (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[UK] Binstead & Wells Pink ’Un and Pelican 153: He gazed depreciatingly at the ‘bags’ of the startling check suit he was wearing.
at bags, n.2
[UK] Binstead & Wells Pink ’Un and Pelican 186: Putting balloon-juice, carelessly rectified aquafortis, and other foreign brands of brassfounders’ applejack in the ‘Scotch’.
at balloon juice (n.) under balloon, n.
[UK] Binstead & Wells Pink ’Un and Pelican 278: Fleet Street can possibly ‘give a bit of weight’ to most places as a ‘run for the utterly magless, rapless and pebble-beached’.
at pebble-beached, adj.
[UK] Binstead & Wells Pink ’Un and Pelican 248: The millionaires go out among the hoboes that haven’t got a bean, and there ensues a brief era of couters and good feeling.
at bean, n.1
[UK] Binstead & Wells Pink ’Un and Pelican 106: ‘Is it begobs!’ exclaimed Jim. ‘Then, if he kicks me in the mouth O’ill bite him in the — ’.
at begorra!, excl.
[UK] Binstead & Wells A Pink ’Un and a Pelican 36: One of the big pots at St Martin’s called on Joe at his London address.
at big pot, n.
[UK] Binstead & Wells A Pink ’Un and a Pelican 227: An old chap in a drab billycock.
at billycock, n.
[UK] Binstead & Wells Pink ’Un and Pelican 144: The somewhat hazy and unconventional notions of commercial morality held by the Pelicans [...] were not shared by all the Gerrard Street ‘birds’.
at bird, n.1
[UK] Binstead & Wells A Pink ’Un and a Pelican 264: [chapter heading] Ear-biters at the railway station.
at ear-biter, n.
[UK] Binstead & Wells Pink ’Un and Pelican 209: What price the bloominger Blue Book.
at blooming, adj.1
[UK] Binstead & Wells A Pink ’Un and a Pelican 87: ’Ere, Alick knocks ’im about fer five blo’ — who’ll ’ave it?
at blow, n.4
[UK] Binstead & Wells A Pink ’Un and a Pelican 19: You’ll see scores of shandrydans carry passengers at two-bob-a-nob.
at bob a nob (n.) under bob, n.3
[UK] Binstead & Wells A Pink ’Un and a Pelican 152: The comely body who had answered them asked if it was anything she could do.
at body, n.
[UK] Binstead & Wells Pink ’Un and Pelican 154: All you’ve got to do is send a small boy out with an armful of bogey parcels on the day your things are done.
at bogus, adj.
[UK] Binstead & Wells A Pink ’Un and a Pelican 276: To bluff his opponent, who he thought would surely be forced to draw presently, he drew a second bone.
at bone, n.1
[UK] Binstead & Wells Pink ’Un and Pelican 282: Playfully bonneting the old man with his own beaver, and rolling him over in the deserted and dusty passage.
at bonnet, v.
[UK] Binstead & Wells A Pink ’Un and a Pelican 198: In less than twenty minutes they’d skinned ‘The Lout,’ who, after all, was more of a bonnet than a spieler.
at bonnet, n.2
[UK] Binstead & Wells Pink ’Un and Pelican 227: He was convinced, from the instant he discovered his boodle was gone, that it had been ‘pinched’.
at boodle, n.1
[UK] Binstead & Wells A Pink ’Un and a Pelican 238: Up comes the foreman, grabs me by the scruff o’ the neck, an’ boots me right outer the yard.
at boot, v.1
[UK] Binstead & Wells A Pink ’Un and a Pelican 237: I might ha’ give her a bit too much o’ the boot as she lays on the floor.
at give someone the boot (v.) under boot, the, n.
[UK] Binstead & Wells Pink ’Un and Pelican 89: If he can bounce this little army he deserves a seat.
at bounce, v.1
[UK] Binstead & Wells A Pink ’Un and a Pelican 175: Romano brassed up the thick ’uns.
at brass up (v.) under brass, n.1
[UK] Binstead & Wells A Pink ’Un and a Pelican 211: What ho! — Surbiton — they sight the briefs ’ere, don’ t they?
at brief, n.1
[UK] Binstead & Wells A Pink ’Un and a Pelican 232: The whole ring was strewn with torn ‘briefs’ and bits of paper.
at brief, n.1
[UK] Binstead & Wells Pink ’Un and Pelican 225: He proceeded [...] to walk three times round the fallen brolly.
at brolly, n.
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