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[UK] M. Dibdin Tryst 34: One thing I can’t stand is people, people pissing me around.
at piss about, v.
[UK] M. Dibdin Tryst 36: Unlike the clueless wankers he lived with, Jimmy had always known that there was more to life than glue and cider.
at clueless, adj.
[UK] M. Dibdin Tryst 45: The blood-streaked features of the demon beneath, like in Dave’s fave video.
at fave, adj.
[UK] M. Dibdin Tryst 6: ‘Hang loose,’ she was told. ‘Go with the flow.’.
at go with the flow (v.) under go with, v.
[UK] M. Dibdin Tryst 34: Then they [...] yoik out the guts and chuck them in this fucking great press which crushes them.
at gut, n.
[UK] M. Dibdin Tryst 152: Wow, man, out of sight, too much, heavy.
at heavy, adj.
[UK] M. Dibdin Tryst 31: Alex, one of the other residents and good with his hands, had hot-wired the electricity supply.
at hot-wire, v.
[UK] M. Dibdin Tryst 155: Hey, you black jobbie, did you no’ hear the bell?
at jobbie, n.2
[UK] M. Dibdin Tryst 152: Wow, man, out of sight, too much, heavy.
at too much!, excl.
[UK] M. Dibdin Tryst 151: L registration Mini, ropy bodywork, sixty thousand or so on the clock.
at ropey, adj.
[UK] M. Dibdin Tryst 28: An assortment of graffiti, including ‘Take 2 you shit crew’, ‘Skin one up’.
at skin up (v.) under skin, n.1
[UK] M. Dibdin Tryst 29: Jimmy, a plump toughie with curly fair hair [...] decided to throw a spanner in the works.
at throw a spanner in(to) the works (v.) under spanner, n.
[UK] M. Dibdin Tryst 37: Heartless conmen, abandoned pets, ravished grannies and torched tramps.
at torched, adj.
[UK] M. Dibdin Tryst (2003) 29: Jimmy, a plump toughie with curly fair hair.
at toughie, n.
[UK] M. Dibdin Tryst 8: In Brighton she had been quite prepared to smoke a little grass [...] but she had always drawn the line at harder stuff. But on the West Coast, this attitude was labelled ‘up-tight.’.
at uptight, adj.2
[UK] M. Dibdin Tryst 41: Steve was [...] told to stop wanking about.
at wank, v.
[UK] M. Dibdin Tryst 35: As usual, there were wanky patches where character was established and plot developed.
at wanky, adj.
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