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[UK] T. Brown Brighton I 52: We wonder not at the noble peer’s having checked an honest tear when his friend [...] got a sheriff’s breakfast* [note] * A sheriff's breakfast is a hearty choak and a caper.
at hearty choke (with caper sauce), n.
[UK] T. Brown Brighton I 52: We wonder not at the noble peer’s having checked an honest tear when his friend [...] got a sheriff’s breakfast* [note] * A sheriff's breakfast is a hearty choak and a caper.
at sheriff’s breakfast (n.) under sheriff, n.
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 163: It oughta be on me [...] But I’m cleaned out.
at -a, sfx
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 127: If he had attached to himself some bright brassy skirt, like the ones he’s seen at the Cosmopolitan.
at brassy, adj.
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 24: She don’t matter [...] She’s just a buer.
at buer, n.
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 56: He just thought it’d close her clapper.
at clapper, n.1
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 88: They don’t like serving me in there; I’m not class.
at class, adj.
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 163: It oughta be on me [...] But I’m cleaned out.
at cleaned (out), adj.
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 137: You’ve got the doings, haven’t you?
at doings, n.1
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 237: I’m goin’ to have a drain.
at drain, n.3
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 132: Whoever heard of a dry wedding?
at dry, adj.1
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 39: Ask you round the corner to split a bottle of fizz if those beggars hadn’t taken the last fiver.
at fizz, n.1
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 28: Some of these here – they freeze you.
at freeze, v.2
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 176: This gaff stinks.
at gaff, n.1
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 238: One leg was gammy.
at gammy, adj.2
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 233: He looked round for a Gents’ sign – ‘I just got to go – an’ wash’.
at gents, n.
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 9: What’ll you have?
at what will you have?, phr.
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 55: He went across to the washstand and opened the little door where the jerry stood.
at jerry, n.5
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 57: Leave off, Pinkie, and I’ll open up.
at leave off! (excl.) under leave, v.
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 80: If I hadn’t been a bit lit this wouldn’t have happened.
at lit (up), adj.
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 47: You aren’t milky, are you?
at milky, adj.2
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 84: The kind of face a nark might have, a man who grassed to the bogies.
at nark, n.1
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 162: ‘Have a drink?’ ‘No, no,’ he said [...] ‘it’s on me.’.
at on, prep.
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 71: The odds have shortened. There’s been a packet laid on Black Boy this week.
at packet, n.
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 104: This holiday’s perked me up.
at perk up, v.
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 71: He [...] planked the receiver down.
at plank down (v.) under plank, v.
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 166: I watched ’em every Saturday night, didn’t I? Bouncing and ploughing.
at plough, v.
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 24: What about that polony he was with?
at polone, n.
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 112: They can’t put anything on me.
at put something on (v.) under put, v.1
[UK] G. Greene Brighton Rock (1943) 169: He grinned at her. ‘Confession? That’s rich.’.
at rich, adj.
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