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London After Dark 15: John became a little crazy with drink. He used to swallow Red Biddy [...] by the quart.at red biddy (n.) under biddy, n.2
London After Dark 15: John became a little crazy with drink. He used to swallow Red Biddy [...] by the quart. London After Dark 13: A gang of ‘bloods’ who burst into the little foyer. [...] They were in full evening dress with white carnations, obviously in from Oxford or Cambridge for a mad night.at blood, n.1
London After Dark 41: from marijuana addicts come the bobby-sox terms, like : ‘It sends me . . . in the groove . . . hep (those in the know) . . . squares (not in the know) . . . out of this world . . . higher than a kite’.at bobby soxer, n.
London After Dark 103: Every gang has its team of ‘brides’ or ‘chicks’ [...] who are captivated by the glamour of belonging to a boy gang.at bride, n.
London After Dark 55: They scurry in and out of cheap kaffs.at caf, n.
London After Dark 11: Next time it came my way to ‘feel his collar’ for possessing stolen goods I would see the judge was told.at feel someone’s collar (v.) under feel, v.
London After Dark 25: As soon as you cough, every eye is upon you suspiciously. [...] It means your throat is new to the dry tickle of marijuana cigarettes – reefers, giggle-smoke, love-weed, bhang, ganji, Indian hay.at giggleweed (n.) under giggle, adj.
London After Dark 83: One [car] was registered in his name [...] the other was provincially registered and hidden. This was the ‘hotted-up’ job.at hotted-up, adj.
London After Dark 54: Many men in London live upon the immoral earnings of prostitutes. The name for such men is ‘Ponces’ or ‘Johnsons’.at johnson, n.
London After Dark 56: Near by is a hired bedroom – technically known as a ‘lumber’ – because it is to this room that she ‘lumbers’ her mugs.at lumber, v.2
London After Dark 58: There are ‘queer men’ – fetishists [...] There is one of them, a mild, elderly little chap [...] known to every prostitute in London, I should think, as ‘Mary’.at Mary, n.
London After Dark 83: Boastful young spivs who will do anything rather than admit to being ‘milky’.at milky, adj.2
London After Dark 96: ‘Have a drink, Rabbit,’ he says, and tips it all over her. [...] ‘She was a nark, was she?’.at rabbit, n.5
London After Dark 53: They call him, in thieves’ vernacular, ‘The Steamer’, which is rhyming slang that derives from ‘steam-tug’ and still signifies ‘Mug’.at steam tug, n.
London After Dark 53: They call him, in thieves’ vernacular, ‘The Steamer’, which is rhyming slang that derives from ‘steam-tug’ and still signifies ‘Mug’.at steamer, n.3
London After Dark 99: I got the straight info on a screwing job. Might be worth a nice bit, eh?at straight, adj.1
London After Dark 15: I was being badgered by the ‘Upper Ten’ at the Yard.at upper ten, n.
London After Dark 22: The kids here – like Lucy – get a tosh – a half-crown.at tosheroon, n.
London After Dark 23: We get the zombies (policewomen) around here with the Children’s Waggon pretty often.at zombie, n.
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