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Jake’s Long Shadow choose

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[NZ] J. Cleary Long Shadow (1968) V 40: And I’m not going to be chucked out on my neck to let some bloody mug copper move in on it!
at mug copper (n.) under mug, n.1
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 117: He was all over Sharms from the moment he locked eyes with her across the (seedy) bar.
at all over, adj.2
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 38: You’ an arsehole, Mr Bill. Kiss mine.
at kiss my arse!, excl.
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 227: It takes so many down with it [...] li’l Monty grown into a big bad-arse bastard.
at bad-ass, adj.
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 69: I am still the big boss of those hard-arsed bastards.
at hard-ass, adj.
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 73: You get little suck-arse followers like that, who’ll do anything to impress you.
at suck-ass, adj.
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 15: In winter we go to the beach [...] we’re going to buy a bach.
at bach, n.
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 66: The taxi driver wasn’t the usual blabber mouth.
at blabbermouth, n.
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 61: The more beer they drank, the more the younger bloods talked about fighting than anything else.
at blood, n.1
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 224: I was (in my misery state down at Jojo’s) out boozing.
at booze, v.
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 61: Everyone was [...] teasing the birthday boy, Errol, to make a speech, or pull his trousers [...] do a brown eye.
at do a brown eye (v.) under brown eye, n.
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 69: Bust anyone’s head. Do the hurt bizniz on anyone.
at do the business (v.) under business, n.
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 71: You do your bizniz with your girlfriend during recreation times, in your cell or his.
at do the business (v.) under business, n.
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 71: You do your bizniz with your girlfriend during recreation times, in your cell or his.
at business, n.
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 223: He managed a smile from that busted-up face. It must have hurt, for he winced.
at busted, adj.1
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 134: Polly, buzzy from the champagne, kissed him.
at buzzy, adj.1
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 165: Wally smashed in a young boy’s skull as he slept, then did kaka in his poor victim’s bedroom before fleeing.
at caca, n.
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 234: I’m not getting on your case, Jake. Just letting you know.
at get on someone’s case (v.) under case, n.1
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 8: Moor beer went out from the chilly bin.
at chilly, n.
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 236: Samoan! Jake with mock exaggerated outrage. No son of mine’s bringing home a bloody coconut!
at coconut, n.1
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 154: But what if that’s just a cop-out?
at cop-out, n.2
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 237: Was that their son who got beaten up? The incident that later involved a bunch of cowboy vigilantes.
at cowboy, n.
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 229: You can’t accuse me of being a crass materialist [...] and expect me to be cracking a bottle of Dom with you.
at dom, n.
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 72: The entire floor of this wing is full of your gang only, non-gangies floor above and floor below scared of us, they’re our subjects in our gangdom.
at -dom, sfx
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 36: He can go eff himself.
at eff, v.
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 67: His big tough mates giving the evils back at the Hawk contingent.
at evils, the, n.
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 70: Life in jail is bad. [...] You do minimum ten years, more if you’re a gangie.
at gangie, n.
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 72: The entire floor of this wing is full of your gang only, non-gangies floor above and floor below scared of us, they’re our subjects in our gangdom.
at gangy, n.
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 183: Shut your effin’ gob!
at shut (up) one’s gob (v.) under gob, n.1
[NZ] A. Duff Jake’s Long Shadow 73: We know you’re on the gravy train of help-a-Maori-in-prison, when it’s really help the Maori send the stupid govmint another invoice for services rendered.
at gravy train, n.
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