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Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew choose

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[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 63: Frankly, she didn’t give a shit.
at not give a shit, v.
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 54: Kara, you’re not all there, love. You need your head examining.
at not all there, adj.
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 41: All right, Urb? What’s up?
at all right?, phr.
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 80: In a way you were doing what everyone else wanted to do but didn’t have the bottle for.
at bottle (and glass), n.
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 62: The Code of the Underclass [...] pregnant women were temporarily exempted from the argy-bargy.
at argy-bargy, n.
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 21: Get smashed enough and one day you’ll disappear up your own arsehole.
at arsehole, n.
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 274: Arse-wipe [...] like sandpaper.
at arsewipe, n.
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 4: Tyson [i.e. a dog] was [...] as thick as ten short planks.
at ...two short planks under thick as..., adj.
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 20: I was on my arse and had little choice but to go back into some form of social work.
at on one’s ass under ass, n.
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 99: When we get nicked the Babylon takes our DNA.
at Babylon, n.1
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 3: There’s an ugly fucking buah, called Trudi, the slag, / and we all hate her because she’s a bag.
at bag, n.1
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 107: Target vehicle crashed, driver and passenger bailed [...].
at bail, v.
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 11: He went ballistic on me, kicking the door and spitting.
at go ballistic (v.) under ballistic, adj.
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 63: Greta went bananas.
at go bananas (v.) under bananas, adj.
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 184: Girls came and went on the batter and punters came and went for their drugs.
at batter, v.
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 171: Get out of my face before I smash your beak in.
at beak, n.2
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 100: Been there, seen it, done it, worn the T-shirt.
at been there, done that, phr.
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 3: There’s Frank, the nonce, the sex offender, / but he can’t help it because he’s a bender.
at bender, n.1
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 179: Sparky, Frank and Sketter were a dangerous [...] combination. Each one was heading for the big house.
at big house, n.
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 54: Everyone was on the make [...] pulling a blag.
at blag, n.
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 206: You’ll have to come over and get blasted some time.
at blasted, adj.2
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 45: ‘Want a blow-back, Pixie?’ She nodded, whereupon he turned the joint round and put the lit end into his mouth. He brought his lips up to hers and blew a steady stream of smoke out of the roach end [...] into her mouth.
at blowback, n.
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 167: The bobbies must have put two and two together.
at bobby, n.1
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 55: Two big, bolshy blokes.
at bolshie, adj.
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw vii: Bomb The practice of wrapping noxious-tasting drugs in Rizla paper and swallowing.
at bomb, n.
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 84: Two teenage girls were [...] smoking from a homemade bong.
at bong, n.1
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 49: That’s how I got booted out [of school] in the first place.
at boot out (v.) under boot, v.1
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 7: I take the occasional bracer myself.
at bracer, n.1
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 257: The Whiteheads and Brownheads are the two distinct and easily recognisable sub-groups of modern youth culture.
at brownhead under brown, n.
[UK] B. Hare Urban Grimshaw 139: A few more lines of the sweet brown lady and I no longer cared.
at brown, n.
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