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Gilt Kid 44: I’ve never known a girl like you for getting airyated.at aerated, adj.
Gilt Kid 44: I’ve never known a girl like you for getting airyated. Gilt Kid 94: Well, come on, let’s hear your agony. Make it snappy.at agony, n.
Gilt Kid 240: ‘What’s the matter with you, mad?’ ‘No, I’m all there.’.at all there, adj.
Gilt Kid 22: What with the steamer she’s got for regular and the odd ones she picks up she don’t do so bad, I should cocoa.at coffee and cocoa, v.
Gilt Kid 16: ‘Yes,’ he said looking down on his striped suit with obvious pride, ‘this whistle I got on’s a bit different from the old grey one they dish you out with back in the queer place.’.at whistle (and flute), n.
Gilt Kid 271: Don’t get argy-bargying with him, or he’ll make it very nasty for you at your trial.at argy-bargy, v.
Gilt Kid 31: The blokes who’re coming out on top are the strong-arm guys who can grab all they want for themselves and freeze on to it when they’ve got it.at strong-arm man (n.) under strong-arm, adj.
Gilt Kid 41: You thought you’d come up to London and chance your arm.at chance one’s arm (v.) under arm, n.
Gilt Kid 120: Plenty of dough, plenty of wallop, a pretty jane to knock around with.at knock around, v.
Gilt Kid 232: Now was the chance to do a bit more — buying something from the astard-ba this time.at astard-ba, n.
Gilt Kid 122: Been knocking it about a bit this afternoon.at knock back, v.
Gilt Kid 33: He’d get cased up with some old bag and she’d take him for his lot.at bag, n.1
Gilt Kid 178: They got us by the cobblers.at have someone/something by the balls (v.) under balls, n.
Gilt Kid n.p.: ‘A fiver. Five pounds, five nicker, five quid, five oncers, pangy bar.at pangy bar, n.
Gilt Kid 179: Blimey, I wish I got that cane. It’d be handy in a barney.at barney, n.2
Gilt Kid 160: The fellow driving the car caught a bashing with the cat just as much as the fellow who carried the cosh.at bashing, n.
Gilt Kid 40: You came from the country some place. Not the real depths of the country, I know you’re not a swede-bashing judy.at swede-bashing, adj.
Gilt Kid 229: He was not going to be quite dopey and keep cuttings like some batchy bastards did.at batchy, adj.
Gilt Kid 22: It’s a private gaff. It’ll be dead. It belongs to a jane. She’s on the batter.at batter, v.
Gilt Kid 181: Got you my beauties.at beauty, n.1
Gilt Kid 48: Perhaps his girl had given him the belt.at give someone the belt (v.) under belt, n.
Gilt Kid 66: ‘The berk.’ Jealousy and savage contempt blended in the Gilt Kid’s tone.at berk, n.
Gilt Kid 35: Maybe there’s a chance for them to show off and look big.at big, adj.
Gilt Kid 80: Reaching for his trousers he heard the chink of silver in the pockets. Ah, she had not gone down his bins then.at bins, n.1
Gilt Kid 19: Blimey, that was a bit of fat for you, wasn’t it?at bit of fat (n.) under bit, n.1
Gilt Kid 198: If you try to come any funny stuff, putting the old black on me or any of that madam, well, one fine day they’ll find you floating in the Thames. [Ibid.] 242: Sammy was getting just a little too warm for his liking. Before long he would be putting on the black.at put the black on (v.) under black, n.
Gilt Kid 22: I’ve let myself in for screwing the Bank of England or doing a blag on the crown jewels.at blag, n.
Gilt Kid 278: Could you spare one, mate? I ain’t had a blow since I was knocked off.at blow, n.3
Gilt Kid 277: They were just the sort of people who got the boys a bad name and started people chucking off hot air about the ‘lower criminal classes’.at boys, the, n.
Gilt Kid 255: There was one thing for which to be thankful. They had taken off those damned bracelets.at bracelets, n.
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