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[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 110: Tinies and Babies, twelve-year-old wannabe gangsters [...] who’d splinter their own foot bones before they hit someone.
at baby, n.
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 155: We had a code back in the day [...] Never get little kids involved.
at back in the day(s) under back, adv.
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 135: The cops had to bang up all the serious guys.
at bang up, v.2
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 115: Pilgrim runs a risk having allies in the Tottenham Boys, given the long-standing beef with Hackney.
at beef, n.2
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 108: If one of them was merked, they would all big up how they were going to kill other people.
at big up, v.
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 139: They are always bopping, walking like one of their legs is broken, slanting to one side.
at bop, v.
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 171: All he needs is £10 to buy a 0.3 gram rap of brown or brandy [or] ‘one of each’, a mixed bag of whisky and brandy, crack and smack.
at brandy, n.
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 161: Those are the guys who robbed me [...] Bricked me in the face.
at brick, v.1
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 136: We’re outnumbered by Brummies. Every maggot in here sounds like Ozzy Osbourne.
at Brummy, n.
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 136: Keep it to yourself, bruv.
at bruv, n.
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 110: Must have clocked us as we were parking up and took off.
at clock, v.1
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 181: After two days without a fix [of heroin] he is clucking badly. His nose runs, his eyes water and his head rolls.
at cluck, v.4
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 194: Cambuulo had a crack-house closure served on it a few years aqgo.
at crack house (n.) under crack, n.7
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 114: Wolf could supply Pilgrim’s crew the one thing they needed to become more powerful.
at crew, n.
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 133: One inmate [is] goading his neighbour to kill himself [...] The neighbour’s cell is silent, as if he’s already done himself in.
at do oneself in (v.) under do in, v.
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 116: Don’t come out the back [...] Five-oh are here.
at five-oh, n.
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 109: But once you start flossing, people get jealous.
at floss, v.
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 111: Ribz leans on his fists, bragging about what he’s going to do to those motherfuckers, gassing himself up.
at gas oneself up (v.) under gas, n.1
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 111: As soon as the cklubbers see them up there they know someone’s going to get it.
at get it, v.
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 132: They want Pilgrim to give up Elijah [...] Elijah is wanted for attempted murder.
at give up, v.
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 171: Some people buy Mannitol and gouch out, but that’s silly.
at gouch (out), v.
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 127: Jimmy guns the engine and they roar off.
at gun, v.3
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 105: His snake-eyes Avirex T-shirt shows his henched core, his bull neck.
at hench, n.
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 113: Pilgrim was fifteen, known as muscle that would come down, rob someone and beat them up. He was like a hit man.
at hit man (n.) under hit, n.
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 106: They are running Hackney now. They have the hood on lock.
at hood, n.3
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 111: Security, a fifteen-stone guy hopped out on steroids, bulked up with jail muscle.
at hopped out, adj.2
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 158: I want you to ice someone for £15,000 [...] No one you know.
at ice, v.
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 159: Lewisham and Southwark [are] where it’s been really kicking off. Those two are much worse now than Hackney’s ever been.
at kick off, v.1
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 129: Pilgrim is legging it down the street.
at leg it (v.) under leg, v.1
[UK] G. Knight Hood Rat 151: Girls have to perform line-ups to a group of gang members and they film it on their camera-phones.
at line-up, n.
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