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[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 355: She was worried that her friend might have been ‘mucked about with’ by her father.
at muck about, v.
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 335: If you don’t let me go I’ll give all the kids acid and they’ll all jump off the church roof.
at acid, n.1
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 282: He had been knocking around with a thirteen-year-old who had a brother who was a bouncer.
at knock around, v.
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 79: Her brother-in-law [...] called her a ‘hot-arsed little sod’.
at hot-arsed, adj.
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 65: They were both so stoned. So laid back that they were horizontal, was that what they used to say?
at laid-back, adj.
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 272: She’d still be shouting and bawling. Yelling and laying into them and going ballistic.
at go ballistic (v.) under ballistic, adj.
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 112: The balloon really did go up then.
at when the balloon goes up under balloon, n.
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 87: It was gangbang, thank you ma’am, and that was that story finished. [Ibid.] 345: He climaxed very quickly. He was very whambam.
at wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am, phr.
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 156: She wanted some big nigger to throw her down and fucking bang on top of her and treat her like a dog.
at bang, v.1
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 49: All the first intake of lodgers were male; hippies or bikers, Hell’s Angels types.
at biker, n.
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 114: His floozy or his bimbo, the landlady [...] called her.
at bimbo, n.
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 344: She likes a bit of both.
at bit of both (n.) under bit, n.1
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 63: He shook her about and they were both cursing her and calling her bitch.
at bitch, n.1
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 185: Making a monkey out of. Pulling the wool over. Putting one over on. The chisel. The blag.
at blag, n.
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 57: She blanked this for many years. Her memories were revived years later.
at blank, v.2
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 226: Blinding worker. Always at work.
at blinding, adj.1
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 167: Blinking barge people gets on my nerves.
at blinking, adj.
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 54: The time she had brought a black bloke to Cromwell Street.
at bloke, n.
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 96: He didn’t just lose his temper. He used to flip. Blow.
at blow, v.1
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 189: Sunday dinner was always something really special. Their one blow-out meal.
at blow-out, n.1
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 341: The house was full of blue magazines and blue movies. Dirty books and dirty films.
at blue, adj.3
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 90: This bog-ordinary, prefabricated, pebble-finished stand.
at bog-standard, adj.
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 153: Fred was cool about drugs and drunkenness and crazy bombed-out behaviour.
at bombed out, adj.1
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 54: You want to watch her. Don’t you know she’s both ways?
at both ways, adj.
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 52: Ben’s still out of his brain and Dapper Davis is going on being his horrible usual self.
at out of one’s brain(s) (adj.) under brain, n.1
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 233: Even smashed family photographs and the budgie cage.
at budgie, n.1
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 228: Well, this bugger must’ve gone down twelve feet.
at bugger, n.1
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 333: And it was a day or two later Heather buggered off.
at bugger off, v.
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 136: He was a boaster. A braggart [...] He was a romancer. A bullshitting liar.
at bullshit, v.
[UK] G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 213: A likeable kind of bullshitter is what he was.
at bullshitter, n.
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