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[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 152: She was hinting that I was a bit of a lad coming in with that gear.
at bit of a lad (n.) under bit of (a), n.
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 83: He is even more surprised to hear how I’m up with the others on the alky wing.
at alky, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 118: When somebody pulls out the Jack and Jills – you take a few, of course.
at jack (and jill), n.
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 161: The hospital screws gave him the liquid cosh – filled him so full of Largactil he doesn’t know his arse from his elbow.
at not know one’s arse/ass from one’s elbow (v.) under arse, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 8: You’re as thick as Conner’s ass.
at thick as..., adj.
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 33: ‘Can’t leave you on your own. No telling what you might get up to.’ ‘Bollocks.’.
at ballocks!, excl.
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 38: I was becoming a right swede-basher!
at swede-basher, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 41: God blast it to hell, nice legs indeed. Is that all you be thinking of?
at blast, v.1
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 64: Fuck it to hell [...] I wish I knew where there was a good ironmonger’s that’d give us a bottle of blue.
at blue, n.1
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 121: Pill-head slips me a couple of blues.
at blue, n.1
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 87: ‘Hello, Johnny [...] come on let’s get a bottle!’ We soon got one and went into the boneyard to drink it.
at boneyard, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 153: Caught round here, they’d throw the book at me.
at throw the book at (v.) under book, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 94: Locked in the sweat box, driven round London, picking up cons from other courts.
at sweat-box, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 68: Pill-head slides some pills into my hand. I give him a wink, swallow them with a drop of water, then sit on the floor till I get the buzz.
at buzz, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 141: ‘What do you do?’ says Chas. ‘I’m a cat.’ ‘A what?’ ‘A cat burglar.’.
at cat, n.6
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 43: Noreen’s husband Mickey was supposed to be smart. I thought he was a chicken’s head.
at chickenhead, n.1
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 152: She got up slowly, saw me clocking her legs.
at clock, v.1
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 26: The massive gym was full; officers and wives in the ringside seats, non-coms in the middle, other ranks with their birds at the back.
at non-com, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 3: You fucking Irish cunt.
at cunt, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 125: We’d cut the jake with pisshole water.
at cut, v.6
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 166: Another morning, a guy got a ‘Dear John.’ Fired himself off the fives, landed in the safety net.
at Dear John, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 31: They seemed to be kinky about tobacco and anyone caught with even a dog-end would get a good beating.
at dog (end) (n.) under dog, n.2
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 49: I was [...] in Wandsworth prison, sharing a cell with a guy who was in for doping greyhounds.
at dope, v.1
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 20: I used to doss down in old cars: the streets in those days were littered with old bangers.
at doss down (v.) under doss, v.
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 99: The law have been round there day and night looking for the bent dough.
at dough, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 105: We saw the head-shrinker at Brixton [...] He put us down as chronic alkies. Then we had a three-week laydown.
at lay-down, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 106: Two big male nurses tried to overpower me. I managed to drop one with a kick ... ran upstairs.
at drop, v.1
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 106: More came running, held me, got my trousers down, shoved a needle full of knock-out drops in me.
at knockout drops, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 122: Tommy had a thing about giving up drink – would go to AA meetings and had been in a number of dry houses.
at dry, adj.1
[Ire] J. Healy Grass Arena (1990) 162: Grabs the epileptic by his shoulders and pulls him clear [...] One of the trusties rushes up with pillow kept in the office for just such emergencies. Hunter grabs it, puts it under the e.p.’s head.
at eppy, n.
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