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[UK] D. MacShane Prison Diaries 350: The screws look on with indifference, copping a deaf ’un.
at cop a deaf ’un (v.) under cop a..., v.
[UK] D. MacShane Prison Diaries 359: Del tries to improve my rhyming slang knowledge. [...] I love ‘bubble and squeak’ for Greek.
at bubble and squeak, n.2
[UK] D. MacShane Prison Diaries 359: Del tries to improve my rhyming slang knowledge. I know what ‘deaf and dumb’ means though I have yet to experience what is called a cavity search.
at deaf and dumb, n.2
[UK] D. MacShane Prison Diaries 51: Bang-up. About twenty minutes later the observation slit opens.
at bang-up, n.2
[UK] D. MacShane Prison Diaries 356: I like Crispin, who went through an agonising period as an MP [...] as he decided about coming out as gay.
at come out, v.
[UK] D. MacShane Prison Diaries 357: The brutal shock of prison must have easily flipped him.
at flip out, v.
[UK] D. MacShane Prison Diaries 360: A huge piss-take on the super-rich.
at piss-take, n.
[UK] D. MacShane Prison Diaries 315: I had the pleasure of explaining the meaning of ‘snafu’ to a pleasant, helpful secretary this morning.
at s.n.a.f.u., n.
[UK] D. MacShane Prison Diaries 360: One [screw] tells him to throw a sickie as you can buy time by pretending to be ill.
at throw a sickie (v.) under sickie, n.1
[UK] D. MacShane Prison Diaries 353: A prison officer brings up a wodge of mail.
at wadge, n.
[UK] D. MacShane Prison Diaries 52: No chance of vinegar [...] let alone pickled onions or a wally.
at wally, n.1
[UK] D. MacShane Prison Diaries n.p.: I give myself the so-called whore’s wash of a wet flannel over face, armpits and groin.
at whore splash (n.) under whore, n.
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