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Streets Above Us choose

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[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 21: Which actor takes no salt; and which one takes it up the bum.
at take it up the arse under arse, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 89: Oh, yes. They’re at it, all right. But you’ve got to catch them bang to rights.
at bang to rights (adv.) under bang, adv.
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 111: He looks at the truncheon. ‘Yes, me old beauty, you’ve been superseded by the old punishment and reward game.’.
at beauty, n.1
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 123: Dodgy walking around like that [...] two or three days’ stubble on your face, dead cert for a tug.
at dead cert (n.) under cert, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 130: Annabelle, head drooped forward on to her chest, has conked out at last.
at conk (out), v.
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 158: She’s got you right under the cosh.
at under the cosh under cosh, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 156: Fuck him, if he goes on the creep here, thinks Mo dejectedly. He’ll spoil it for me.
at at/on the creep under creep, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 43: This mob down here. All lah-di-lah, posh voices.
at la-di-da(h), adj.
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 55: ‘Who slept in this one last night?’ [...] ‘Bloody damper!’.
at damper, n.3
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 4: Buskers and charity collectors act unwitting pilot fish for the dipper sharks.
at dipper, n.2
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 118: Well, we’ve wasted a lot of time here and we still got that brothel case them Eyeties was running from that ice-cream van.
at Eyetie, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 59: Now we need a body to take a plea. Or we’re going to get it ourselves ... in the neck.
at get it in the neck, v.
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 5: Phlegmbers – urchins that haunt the escalator areas try to outdo each other [...] see how many gobs they can land on passengers’ backs.
at gob, n.2
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 2: The only sound the leisurely shuffle of the experienced grazer as he goes from bin to bin.
at grazer, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 85: There, isn’t that better? Think of all the gunge that must have cleared away.
at gunge, n.1
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 140: We shall be making a very positive statement against all that middle-class hogwash.
at hogwash, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 93: Mo joins the ranks of kibitzers. ‘When you don’t know what to do, wait for your opponent to make the play.’.
at kibitzer, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 45: ‘You trying to be funny, you fucking paraffin lamp?’ snarls the sergeant.
at paraffin lamp, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 22: Central Finance have done a nasty, slapped a D notice on us.
at do (someone) a nasty (v.) under nasty, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 49: Anyway, now I’m going to try and have a kip in the pisshole.
at pisshole, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 197: These piss-pot fans are ripping up the platform benches.
at pisspot, adj.
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 89: Sam, you frightened of that rass-cloth?
at raasclat, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 4: Buskers and charity collectors act unwitting pilot fish for the dipper sharks.
at shark, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 87: He needs a seven to get out of jail. They land a six, shit out, no good.
at shit out of luck under shit, adv.
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 46: Only thing is some got their shit under control more than others.
at shit, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 136: The hallway of the skipper is gloomy and dark.
at skipper, n.1
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 40: The man looks puzzled. ‘What is this ‘social’?’ ‘It’s our benefits, chief,’ says Finn.
at Social, the, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 36: He spews his guts all over it.
at spew one’s guts (v.) under spew, v.
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 179: He wanders away to get a bite before he gets a touch of the staggers.
at staggers, n.
[Ire] J. Healy Streets Above Us (1991) 33: ‘Steaming’, the notorious strategy of mass invasion of a group of travellers by a gang that indiscriminately robs anybody in their way.
at steaming, n.2
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