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Daily Mirror 20 Sept. 12/4: Why They Croak. Pessimism is a form of mental dyspepsia usually induced by over-indulgence of the appetite for sensation.at croak, v.1
Daily Mirror 20 Sept. 12/4: Why They Croak. Pessimism is a form of mental dyspepsia usually induced by over-indulgence of the appetite for sensation. Daily Mirror 15 Sept. 8/1: The crude Teutonic brutality which wrecked the Kaiser and his boot-licking crew of sycophants lingers on.at bootlicking (adj.) under bootlick, v.
Daily Mirror 11 Aug. 3: [headline] It’s ‘total’ demob. now—Many home by year’s end .at demob, v.
in Daily Mirror (N.Y.) 8 July 4/5: I’ve got to use ‘heck’ [for hell] because practically all my editors are ... being more rabidly nice Nellie than usual.at nice-nelly, adj.
Daily Mirror (L) 27 Aug. 7/1: I rang singer Julie Driscoll [...] She said: ‘I haven’t heard from you for yonks.’.at yonks, n.
Daily Mirror 3 Sept. 12/1: A group of teenagers [...] wear tight and rather short jeans, collarless T-shirts, exposed braces, big steel-capped boots and hair erased almost to their scalps. The lack of hair is what gives them their generic names [...] crop-heads, skin-heads or peanuts.at skinhead, n.
Daily Mirror 20 Aug. 10: She [...] very nearly managed to deliver the correct text, singing: ‘Creole baby with flashing eyes’.at baby, n.
Daily Mirror 18 Aug. 13: He was already ‘hooked’ – I watched the pills, the capsules and the injections take their heavy toll.at hooked, adj.3
Daily Mirror 19 Aug. 1: A punch-up involving National Front supporters flared up as the Ladywood by-election result was announced.at punch-up (n.) under punch, v.
Daily Mirror 20 Aug. 9: He knew not to [...] get too close, as three of the executive roadies did a year ago – and got fired for it.at roadie, n.
Daily Mirror 19 Aug. 2: Rockers in studded leather gear.at rocker, n.4
(ref. to 1920s–30s) Daily Mirror 20 Aug. 10: For the fans of the Thirties it was Crosby, for the sharpies of the Twenties it was Jolson.at sharpie, n.1
Daily Mirror 23 Aug. 6: Julie Christie has been signed to play the lead in an Argentinian film which has now been retitled Miss Mary. The original title gave both Julie and the Argies the heebie-jeebies. It was called Miss Maggie.at Argie, n.
Daily Mirror 6 Aug. 🌐 Sarah Payne’s jailed killer is scarred for life after a fellow inmate slashed him in the face with a home-made blade. Hated paedophile Roy Whiting, 42, was standing on a landing when he was grabbed and had both corners of his mouth savagely cut in a wound known to cons as a ‘Chelsea smile’.at Chelsea smile, n.
Daily Mirror 17 Mar. 🌐 Celebs such as Jennifer Aniston, Britney Spears, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Tess Daly have all been seen guzzling a long, cool glass of moo juice.at moo juice, n.
Daily Mirror 10 Jan. 33: [She] finally announced she’s up the duff.at up the duff (adj.) under duff, n.3
Daily Mirror 10 Jan. 33: Nicole is papped all the time.at pap, v.
Mirror Online 1 Sept. 🌐 F**k cars, innit — we don’t go in cars — We use bikes only. Bare bikes.at bare, adj.
Mirror Online 1 Sept. 🌐 Food — the code word for drugs. Crack and heroin referred to as ‘hard food’.at food, n.
Mirror Online 1 Sept. 🌐 Pagan — The gang slang for an enemy or rival gang member.at pagan, n.
Mirror Online 1 Sept. 🌐 Snapping — shooting.at snap, v.
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