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[UK] W. Boyd On the Yankee Station (1982) 113: Fuckn gave it you back, turdbird, so beat it heah?
at bird, n.1
[UK] W. Boyd ‘Not Yet, Jayette’ (in On the Yankee Station 1982) 21: She’s really grown fat in the years since my mother bombed out.
at bomb out, v.
[UK] W. Boyd ‘Hardly Ever’ in On the Yankee Station (1982) 39: He had a bonk-on all the English lesson.
at bonk-on (n.) under bonk, n.
[UK] W. Boyd ‘Bat-Girl!’ in On the Yankee Station 1982 142: Don’t boot him, Trev.
at boot, v.1
[UK] W. Boyd ‘Not Yet, Jayette’ On the Yankee Station (1982) 18: A girl works there most mornings, thin, bottle-blonde.
at bottle blond(e) (n.) under bottle, n.1
[UK] W. Boyd ‘The Coup’ in On the Yankee Station (1982) 163: Tanned and brassy females whom Morgan imaginatively took to be the mistresses of African politicians.
at brassy, adj.
[UK] W. Boyd ‘Not Yet, Jayette’ in On the Yankee Station (1982) 19: Oh he left five minutes ago, bub.
at bub, n.3
[UK] W. Boyd ‘The Coup’ in On the Yankee Station (1982) 158: He said good-bye to Isaac, and Moses his cook [...] He’d given them all a sizeable farewell dash the previous evening.
at dash, n.2
[UK] W. Boyd ‘On the Yankee Station’ in On the Yankee Station (1982) 131: If the dinks were quick enough they could scrape it off.
at dink, n.2
[UK] W. Boyd ‘On the Yankee Station’ in On the Yankee Station (1982) 119: You’re fuckin finished you fuckin dipshit asshole!
at dipshit, adj.
[UK] W. Boyd ‘Hardly Ever’ On the Yankee Station (1982) 50: Just feel-ups then. Big bloody deal.
at feel up, n.
[UK] W. Boyd ‘On the Yankee Station’ in On the Yankee Station (1982) 127: She number ten, Johnny, she quick-time girl. No ficky-fick.
at ficky-fick, n.
[UK] W. Boyd ‘Hardly Ever’ in On the Yankee Station (1982) 44: ‘What’s a flogger?’ Holland’s girl asked. Panton was doubled up with mirth. [Ibid.] 46: ‘Okay, folks,’ came a voice. ‘Stop flogging, here’s Niles.’.
at flog, v.
[UK] W. Boyd ‘Hardly Ever’ On the Yankee Station (1982) 49: It got pretty passionate. Frenching just about all the time.
at French, v.
[UK] W. Boyd ‘Hardly Ever’ On the Yankee Station (1982) 42: ‘Frig off, Holland,’ the boy said tonelessly.
at frig off! (excl.) under frig, v.
[UK] W. Boyd ‘Histoire Vache’ in On the Yankee Station (1982) 103: At once a blind funk seized him and he felt convinced he wouldn’t be able to go through with it.
at funk, n.2
[UK] W. Boyd ‘On the Yankee Station’ in On the Yankee Station (1982) 131: There just ain’t nothing to beat this jelly, man. It’s gonna win us the woah.
at jelly, n.2
[UK] W. Boyd ‘On the Yankee Station’ in On the Yankee Station (1982) 118: What’re you fuckin doing here, jerk-off?
at jerk-off, n.
[UK] W. Boyd ‘Hardly Ever’ in On the Yankee Station (1982) 52: We couldn’t because I ... I didn’t have a johnny.
at johnny, n.1
[UK] W. Boyd ‘Not Yet, Jayette’ (in On the Yankee Station 1982) 17: I only tell you this to give you some idea what the city is like. It’s full of jokers.
at joker, n.1
[UK] W. Boyd ‘My Girl in Skin-Tight Jeans’ in On the Yankee Station (1982) 93: I watched them laughing and joshing for a while in the street.
at josh, v.
[UK] W. Boyd ‘Not Yet, Jayette’ in On the Yankee Station (1982) 21: She’s a real klutz.
at klutz, n.
[UK] W. Boyd ‘Hardly Ever’ (in On the Yankee Station 1982) 42: No queers allowed. What are you bloody doing here? It’s girls we’re singing with. Not lushmen, Mobo, no little lushmen.
at lush, adj.2
[UK] W. Boyd ‘On the Yankee Station’ in On the Yankee Station (1982) 132: He’d have to kick his butt in when he got back, get the pill to keep his distance.
at pill, n.
[UK] W. Boyd ‘Hardly Ever’ in On the Yankee Station (1982) 38: ‘Wor! Think of it waiting [...] The shafting, Nilo my man,’ he said intensely. ‘The royal bloody shafting we’re going to do.’.
at shafting, n.
[UK] W. Boyd ‘Hardly Ever’ On the Yankee Station (1982) 48: ‘Shagger,’ Panton accused. ‘Bloody old shagger, Quent.’.
at shagger, n.1
[UK] W. Boyd ‘My Girl in Skin-Tight Jeans’ in On the Yankee Station (1982) 92: They were wearing worn out sharpie clothes.
at sharpie, n.2
[UK] W. Boyd ‘Histoire Vache’ (in On the Yankee Station 1982) 103: There had been disparaging remarks about the effeminate, gelded sissies.
at sissy, n.
[UK] W. Boyd On the Yankee Station (1982) 46: ‘Where are you going, Payne?’ Niles said tiredly. ‘For a slash, Niles.’.
at slash, n.
[UK] W. Boyd ‘Hardly Ever’ in On the Yankee Station (1982) 39: He considered the pool of players he could draw on: asthmatics, fatsos, spastics everyone.
at spastic, n.
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