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Nugget
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A one pound coin
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Oedipus
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Sex (Oedipus Rex=sex)
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Oily
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Cigarette (oily rag=fag)
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On your jack
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Alone (Jack Jones=alone)
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OP
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Observation post
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Orchestras
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Testicles (orchestra stalls=balls;
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also cobblers, cobblers awls=balls)
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Parcel
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A consignment of stolen goods
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Patsies
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Piles (Patsy Palmer’s=farmers,
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Farmer Giles=piles)
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Peter
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A safe
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Pete Tong
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Wrong
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Pet the poodle
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Female masturbation (also beat
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the beaver, hit the slit, juice the
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sluice, bash the gash, slam the clam)
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Pigs
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Beer (pig’s ear=beer, usually on
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George Raft=draft)
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Plates
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Feet (plates of meat=feet)
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Pony
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£25 (also macaroni=pony)
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Pony
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Crap (pony and trap=crap)
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Pop
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Pawn (popcorn=pawn)
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Porkies
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Lies (porky pies=lies)
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Porridge
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Time in prison
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Puff
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Cannabis (also dope, grass,
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blow, wacky baccy, ganja,
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weed, pot)
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Pukka
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A real deal
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Queen Mum
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Bum (also Kingdom Come)
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Rock ’n’ Roll
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Unemployed (rock ’n’ roll=dole)
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Rosy
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Tea (Rosy Lee=tea)
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Rubber
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Pub (rubadubdub=pub; also
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battle cruiser=boozer)
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Ruby
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Curry (Ruby Murray=curry)
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Salmon
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Erection (salmon and
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prawn=horn; also lob-on)
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Saucepan
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Child (saucepan lid=kid)
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Schnide
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Fake (also Sexton Blake=fake)
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Score
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£20
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See You Next Tuesday
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A cunt
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Septic
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American (septic tank=Yank)
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Sherbert
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A cab (sherbert dab=cab)
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Silvery
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A black man (silvery
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spoon=coon; also Fergal, Fergal
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Sharkey=darky)
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Slag
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A person with no principles
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Slaphead
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A bald man or Yelland, one who
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wears the pink crash helmet
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Slaughter
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A safe place to dispose of stolen
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goods (also slaughter house)
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Smack
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Heroin (also horse, H, junk, skag,
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shit, brown, Harry, boy, the white
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palace, the Chinaman’s nightcap)
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Sov
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£1 (from sovereign)
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SP
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Information (starting prices)
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Speed
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Amphetamines (also sulph,
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whizz, Billy, phets)
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Spiel
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Patter
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Squirt
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Ammonia in a bottle
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Stewards
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Investigation (from steward’s
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inquiry)
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Stretch
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One year in prison
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Stripe
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To cut the face with a Frankie
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or a chiv
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Surrey Docks
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Syphilis (Surrey Docks=pox)
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Swagman
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A dealer in cheap market goods
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Swede
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Head (also loaf, loaf of
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bread=head; noggin)
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Syrup
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Wig (syrup of figs=wigs)
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Taters
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Cold (potatoes in the
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mould=cold; also brass monkey’s,
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from it’s cold enough to freeze
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the balls off a brass monkey)
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Tea leaf
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Thief
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Thru’pennies
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Breasts (thru’penny bits=tits; also
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Bristols, Bristol Cities=titties;
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Earthas, Eartha Kitts=tits)
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Tiddlies
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Chinese people
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(tiddlywink=chink)
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Tin-tack
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