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Boy choose

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[UK] J. Hanley Boy 142: Show a leg, you sucker.
at show a leg!, excl.
[UK] J. Hanley Boy 124: ‘Can you use this boy?’ A smile wreathed the large features of the boatswain and he said surlily: ‘Can I use him. Well! Well! I can use a Brownie any time’ [Simes:DLSS].
at brownie, n.1
[UK] J. Hanley Boy 262: ‘You’ve got a dose. That’s what you’ve got. A bloody dose of Syph [Simes:DLSS].
at dose, n.1
[UK] J. Hanley Boy 30: You flamer, I know why you were late.
at flamer, n.3
[UK] J. Hanley Boy 92: He gives me the pip. The bloomin’ pip.
at give someone the pip (v.) under pip, n.1
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