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Down Among the Meths Men choose

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[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 88: Them arseholing sods have had Pee [...] Fucking bastards kept Pee in, told me to bugger off.
at arsehole, adj.
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 40: In an upstairs room they had gone in for a night of perversion and red biddy.
at red biddy (n.) under biddy, n.2
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 90: She stamped round the paths cursin’ and blindin’.
at blind, v.2
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 24: The meths men [...] were sitting on a step, passing a bottle of blue from one to the other [Ibid.] 51: Stage three is the drinking of neat blue or ‘Jake’.
at blue, n.1
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 88: Saw him swallow pocketful of bombers with his wino.
at bomber, n.1
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 51: Bugging is done largely with bricks, bottles and boots [...] Robbery and violence are every day occurences.
at bug, v.2
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 60: The wildos, the tearaways who really rev up. Always high on meths and drugs, they bug each other and will take any chance. Your ordinary meths man will avoid them.
at bug, v.2
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 60: You could see as well as hear the fattened lice as they moved up the wallpaper in these bug-joints.
at bughouse, n.
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 88: A queer he is, and then some [...] He’s called Phyllis the Bum.
at bum, n.1
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 40: The bum boy leapt through the window.
at bum boy (n.) under bum, n.1
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 91: The Jock didn’t get his dose of clap from here; he’d had it before.
at clap, n.
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 20: Cable Street, where the meths men have a doss house.
at dosshouse, n.
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 50: Eff them, eff the bleedin’ soddin’ lot.
at eff, v.
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 70: Aw, yes, guvnor, right henough.
at guvnor, n.
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 15: Harry the Ram was sometimes called Harry the Knife or Harry the Gyp.
at gyp, n.1
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 75: A bum would have half-inched it as soon as the Park opened.
at half-inch, v.
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 51: Stage three is the drinking of neat blue or ‘Jake’.
at jake, n.3
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 46: They were all dying for a drink [...] blues for the jake-drinkers, blues and lemonade or gas and muilk for the rest.
at jake, n.3
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 42: A jake would see a pal crouching in an alley or shivering in a door [...] and go up to him.
at jake, n.3
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 78: I waited in the rain, getting as near to the fire as I could without being kippered.
at kipper, v.2
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 92: An old tramp was stabbed in the Lane last night.
at Lane, the, n.
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 87: He often went away on his own [...] when he was really liquoring up.
at liquor (up), v.
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 20: Cable Street, where the meths men have a doss house.
at meths, n.1
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 28: Clothes are of no interest to the meths women.
at meths, n.1
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 18: Quarter to ten and you’ve alredy necked a bottle.
at neck, v.
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 46: Several were takling pep pills, the so-called purple hearts.
at pep pill, n.
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 31: Most of the meths men are on drugs, many of them pilled up to the eyeballs.
at pilled (up) (adj.) under pill, n.
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 51: Pinhead Flynn and Sidney the Sod are [...] out on the rampage tonight.
at pinhead, n.
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 79: You’re rotten with meths, you boozy bastard.
at rotten with (adj.) under rotten, adj.
[UK] G. Fletcher Down Among the Meths Men 15: Harry the Ram will be running the Chicksand gang or school, call it what you like.
at school, n.
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