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[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 70: No-account boys became fruit machine tycoons.
at no-account, adj.
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 45: The ‘acky’ trick – you know, switching the jar of nitric acid ‘aqua fortis’ [...] for another.
at acky, n.
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 185: They do it on purpose to aggravate you [...] Just aggro.
at aggro, n.
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 163: Muck up the family name with another apples and pears at the Old Bailey.
at apples (and pears), n.
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 79: Bread-and-butter crime is [...] extremely dull in nature.
at bread-and-butter, adj.
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 118: One, at least, is an ‘animal.’.
at animal, n.1
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 93: There’s only one word for him [...] Arsel-creeper.
at arsehole-crawler (n.) under arsehole crawl, v.
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 116: Eventually, there was a real barney.
at barney, n.2
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 111: The barons of the American underworld scene.
at baron, n.
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 79: They had been having a bash at faking.
at bash, n.1
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 36: He was the preferred bellman.
at bellman (n.) under bell, n.1
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 163: Jacko tells her to belt up.
at belt up (v.) under belt, n.
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 107: The bent policeman who tips off the crook.
at bent, adj.
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 39: First thing you knew was bogies all over the place.
at bogey, n.1
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 110: Mafia, which seems to have taken the place of yellow perils, bolshie scares and nameless orgies.
at bolshie, adj.
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 155: A sour ‘bolshie’, intent only upon bringing down the ‘Men from the Ministry’ in flames.
at bolshie, n.
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 49: I made a bomb.
at make a bomb (v.) under bomb, n.
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 28: You were working, not boozing.
at booze, v.
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 31: Young Fred [...] would be called a cad and a bounder.
at bounder, n.
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 29: It is an education to walk through Mayfair or Belgravia with one of the old boys.
at old boy, n.
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 161: Ferdie [...] asks questions like some briefs.
at brief, n.1
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 167: Buck up, Tommy. It’ll be Christmas dinner before long.
at buck up, v.2
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 82: The persecution mania [...] that most of their telephone lines are bugged.
at bug, v.4
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 129: Put the buggers [...] up against a wall and shoot them.
at bugger, n.1
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 82: Unauthorized bugging does go on.
at bugging, n.2
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 35: The job was a good one [...] needing skilled burners.
at burner, n.2
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 126: The sacks of ‘cabbage’ that ‘they’ keep hidden in the house.
at cabbage, n.2
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 31: Young Fred [...] would be called a cad and a bounder.
at cad, n.1
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 33: [They] are extremely cagey in some respects.
at cagey, adj.1
[UK] P. Fordham Inside the Und. 57: It has become a prestige symbol [...] to be in cahoots with gangsters.
at in cahoots (with) under cahoots, n.
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