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[UK] (con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 125: Stephen was all over me and all over Veronica when we arrived.
at all over, adj.2
[UK] (con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 88: He now lives a hand-to-mouth existence ducking and diving and turning his hand to whatever comes along.
at ducking and diving, n.
[UK] (con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 186: Stephen would hardly jeopardise himself by rabbiting on to somebody.
at rabbit (and pork), v.
[UK] (con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 101: Joe has social graces like the Sahara has lakes. He must always angle for something.
at angle, v.
[UK] A. Frewin London Blues 38: A real battle-axe in her day. She used to give us kids such a rucking if she ever caught us getting up to no good.
at battle-axe, n.1
[UK] (con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 216: ‘You a fitness fanatic?’ ‘Only when I’m banged away in here.’.
at banged up, adj.2
[UK] (con. late 1950s) A. Frewin London Blues 16: He’s in a suit. One of those striped double-breasted creations the boppers favoured.
at bebopper, n.
[UK] (con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 229: Pretty small beer you’d think for the Old Bailey, eh? Pretty fucking small beer.
at small beer, n.
[UK] (con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 81: I know dockers are pretty highly paid but I suspect our Reg also does a bit of dealing in bent goods.
at bent, adj.
[UK] (con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 69: Sometimes you may see some best[-iality] which demonstrates that a girl and her dog are not to be parted, but you’ll never see any homo.
at best, n.2
[UK] A. Frewin London Blues 20: Glam girls tarted up and expensively dressed like a page three bimbo opening a supermarket.
at bimbo, n.
[UK] (con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 259: I checked through [the papers] a column-inch at a time. Nothing. Not a dicky-bird.
at dicky-bird, n.2
[UK] A. Frewin London Blues 9: You’re quietly going about shooting blue films with attic camera set-ups.
at blue, adj.3
[UK] (con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 83: He carries black bombers and purple hearts around.
at black bomber (n.) under bomber, n.1
[UK] A. Frewin London Blues 11: I paid £15 for this bootleg tape.
at bootleg, adj.
[UK] (con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 131: He had been boozing and his speech was slightly slurred.
at booze, v.
[UK] (con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 141: ‘Is there anything about her I shouldn’t know, Stephen?’ ‘Search me, old boy.’.
at old boy, n.
[UK] (con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 110: One thing I’ve always noticed about homosexuals, particularly closet queers, is this eye movement thing.
at closet-queen (n.) under closet, adj.
[UK] (con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 147: There would be [...] no framing cock-ups arising from a parallax viewfinder.
at cock-up, n.
[UK] (con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 157: I’ve only got to sniff some white cooch, governor, and I’m there.
at cooch, n.
[UK] (con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 94: Would I feel any different if the two girls over there were a couple of real crackers.
at cracker, n.9
[UK] (con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 163: Sonny paid her in pills and told me that he would have to give her ten quid for her daddy.
at daddy, n.
[UK] A. Frewin London Blues 44: I started in the Chatham dockyards in 1946 as soon as I was demobbed.
at demob, v.
[UK] (con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 97: Don’t come to me on the earhole when you’re skint.
at on the earhole under earhole, n.
[UK] (con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 277: I hand them [i.e. photographs] back to Desmond, who is still sporting this shit-eating grin.
at shit-eating grin, n.
[UK] (con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 68: He also says they [i.e. pornographic books] are for blokes who like dating handkerchiefs and practising five-finger exercises.
at five-fingered exercise (n.) under five-finger(ed), adj.
[UK] (con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 142: I know Mr Messalino would have elbowsed him doing the photographs without me appearing on the scene.
at elbow, v.2
[UK] (con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 279: I suppose you got your own end away after the filming was over, eh? [Ibid.] 280: Dick Callaway [...] He’s aptly named, I tell you — always getting his dick away.
at get one’s end away (v.) under end, n.
[UK] (con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 87: The other face we had in today is a character bereft of honesty, integrity, vision and truth.
at face, n.
[UK] (con. 1960s) A. Frewin London Blues 154: He accelerated forrd at a fair old lick.
at fair, adj.
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