banger n.— «The person in the shop handed over the bag and said: “Here’s the bangers.” (slang for money.)» —“Sunday Mirror Investigates Scandal Of Bribe To Escape Prison Term: Cash For Pardons” by Graham...
get a pull v.— «I’ve always thought since, that for what I done for them I was going to get a pull (be arrested.)» —“Sunday Mirror Investigates Scandal Of Bribe To Escape Prison Term: Cash For Pardons” by Graham...
HCA n.— «Alongside the confused rehabilitation of the herb’s reputation we have “Tackling Crack: the National Crack Plan,” which recognises that “crack dealing…is seen by some young people as an attractive career...
handbags n.— «One of the joys of following English soccer is learning some of its delightful jargon. My favorite bit, perhaps because it is so politically incorrect, is the phrase applied to second-rate soccer fights—”handbags at...
riggwelted adj.— «When once asked by a government official how teachers were adapting to the latest set of changes to the national curriculum, he said he thought they were “fair riggwelted.” That, as one small boy explained to...
riggwelted adj.— «I fled to Harry Ramsden’s for lunch, washed down with a bottle of the Black Sheep Brewery’s ale, Riggwelter. The label, decorated with an apparently dead ram, explained that “when a sheep is on its back and can’t...