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GLOSSARY OF SLANG TERMS
Оглавление| Apples | £20 notes (apple cores=scores; |
| also Georges, from George Daws) | |
| Aris | Arse (Aristotle=bottle; |
| bottle and glass=arse; also April, | |
| April in Paris=aris) | |
| Banged up | Imprisoned |
| Bang to rights | Caught red-handed; guilty |
| Barry | A big woman (Barry |
| McGuigan=big ’un) | |
| Bent | Crooked or stolen (used chiefly |
| of goods) | |
| Bent | Gay (see iron) |
| Bird | Time in prison (bird lime=time) |
| Blade Runner | Someone transporting |
| stolen goods | |
| Blag | Rob (originally a pay-roll or |
| money delivery in public place) | |
| Blagger | Robber |
| Boat | Face (boat race=face; also |
| Chevy Chase) | |
| The boob | Prison |
| Boost | To hot-wire a car |
| Boracic | Skint (boracic lint=skint) |
| Bottle out | To lose one’s nerve |
| Brass | Prostitute (also Tom, dripper) |
| Brown bread | Dead |
| Bullseye | £50 |
| Bung | A bribe |
| Bushel | Neck (bushel and peck=neck) |
| Butchers | Look (butcher’s hook=look) |
| Carpet | Three months’ imprisonment |
| Charlie | Cocaine (also Gianluca, Gianluca |
| Vialli=charlie; snow; Chas; | |
| sherbet; Ying; marching powder) | |
| Chavvy | A child (Romany) |
| China | Mate (china plate=mate) |
| Chiv | A knife |
| The Church | Customs & Excise (C of E) |
| Clean | Innocent, especially of carrying |
| illegal goods | |
| Clobber | Clothes |
| Cockle | £10 (cock and hen=ten) |
| Collar felt | To be arrested (‘he had his |
| collar felt’) | |
| The Currant | The Sun (currant bun=sun) |
| Dabs | Fingerprints |
| Daisy | A safe-breaking tool |
| Darby | Stomach (Darby Kelly=belly) |
| Dipper | Pick-pocket |
| Diving | Pick-pocketry |
| Dog | Telephone (dog and |
| bone=phone) | |
| Doris | A woman |
| Drink | A bribe – ranging from a drink |
| to a nice drink to a handsome | |
| drink | |
| Dripper | Prostitute |
| Drumming | House-breaking |
| Earner | Easy money |
| Elephants | Inebriated (Elephant’s |
| trunk=drunk; also legless; Brahms | |
| and Liszt=pissed) | |
| Eye-tie | An Italian gentleman |
| Feds | Undercover cops |
| Fence | A receiver of stolen goods |
| Filth | The police (also Old Bill; Plod; |
| Dibble; cozzers; rozzers) | |
| Firm | A gang |
| Fit up | To give or plant false evidence |
| Flowery | Prison cell (flowery dell=cell) |
| Four-be | A Jewish man (four-be two=Jew) |
| Frankie | A cut-throat razor (Frankie |
| Fraser=razor) | |
| Friend of ours | One of us (As distinct from ‘a |
| friend of mine’, which means he | |
| seems OK but hasn’t been fully | |
| referenced) | |
| Gaff | A house (also drum) |
| Gary | Toilet or anus (Gary |
| Glitter=shitter; also Khazi) | |
| Give a pull | To impart words of advice |
| Gold watch | Scotch whisky |
| Grass | Informer |
| Grumble | Vagina (grumble and grunt=cunt) |
| Gypsy’s | A piss (gypsy’s kiss=piss; also |
| Jimmy, Jimmy Riddle=piddle; | |
| slash; lash) | |
| Hampton | Penis (Hampton Wick=prick) |
| Hand Grenades | AIDS |
| Hank Marvin | Starving |
| Harry | Semen (Harry Monk=spunk) |
| A Henry | An eighth of an ounce of |
| cannabis, from Henry VIII | |
| In the frame | To be prime suspect |
| Iron | Gay man (iron hoof=poof; also |
| Duke of Kent=bent; ginger | |
| beer=queer) | |
| Jack and Danny | Vagina (Jack and Danny=fanny; |
| also Nook and Cranny) | |
| Jacks | £5 (Jack’s alive=five; also Lady |
| Godiva=fiver) | |
| Jacksie | Arse |
| Jamjar | Car |
| Jiggle | A Frenchman (jiggle and |
| jog=frog) | |
| Jivvle | A woman (dismissive term) |
| Joe | A Pakistani man (Joe Daki=Paki) |
| A Janet | A quarter of an ounce of |
| cannabis | (Janet Street Porter=quarter) |
| K | £1,000 |
| K | Ketamine (also known as Special |
| K, Vitamin K) | |
| Khazi | Toilet |
| Khyber | Arse, from Khyber Pass |
| Kosher | The real thing |
| Long firm | A business set up and allowed to |
| run over a fairly lengthy period | |
| with the sole intention of | |
| defrauding creditors | |
| Manor | Neighborhood |
| Mark yer cards | To give advice |
| Minces | Eyes (mince pies=eyes) |
| Monkey | £500 |
| Moody | Fake |
| Mug | A stupid person (also muppet; |
| ice cream) | |
| Mulla | To beat up. |
| Mutton | Deaf (Mutt and Jeff=deaf) |
| Ned | TV (Ned Kelly=telly) |
| Nonce | Child-sex offender |
| Nugget | A one pound coin |
| Oedipus | Sex (Oedipus Rex=sex) |
| Oily | Cigarette (oily rag=fag) |
| On your jack | Alone (Jack Jones=alone) |
| OP | Observation post |
| Orchestras | Testicles (orchestra stalls=balls; |
| also cobblers, cobblers awls=balls) | |
| Parcel | A consignment of stolen goods |
| Patsies | Piles (Patsy Palmer’s=farmers, |
| Farmer Giles=piles) | |
| Peter | A safe |
| Pete Tong | Wrong |
| Pet the poodle | Female masturbation (also beat |
| the beaver, hit the slit, juice the | |
| sluice, bash the gash, slam the clam) | |
| Pigs | Beer (pig’s ear=beer, usually on |
| George Raft=draft) | |
| Plates | Feet (plates of meat=feet) |
| Pony | £25 (also macaroni=pony) |
| Pony | Crap (pony and trap=crap) |
| Pop | Pawn (popcorn=pawn) |
| Porkies | Lies (porky pies=lies) |
| Porridge | Time in prison |
| Puff | Cannabis (also dope, grass, |
| blow, wacky baccy, ganja, | |
| weed, pot) | |
| Pukka | A real deal |
| Queen Mum | Bum (also Kingdom Come) |
| Rock ’n’ Roll | Unemployed (rock ’n’ roll=dole) |
| Rosy | Tea (Rosy Lee=tea) |
| Rubber | Pub (rubadubdub=pub; also |
| battle cruiser=boozer) | |
| Ruby | Curry (Ruby Murray=curry) |
| Salmon | Erection (salmon and |
| prawn=horn; also lob-on) | |
| Saucepan | Child (saucepan lid=kid) |
| Schnide | Fake (also Sexton Blake=fake) |
| Score | £20 |
| See You Next Tuesday | A cunt |
| Septic | American (septic tank=Yank) |
| Sherbert | A cab (sherbert dab=cab) |
| Silvery | A black man (silvery |
| spoon=coon; also Fergal, Fergal | |
| Sharkey=darky) | |
| Slag | A person with no principles |
| Slaphead | A bald man or Yelland, one who |
| wears the pink crash helmet | |
| Slaughter | A safe place to dispose of stolen |
| goods (also slaughter house) | |
| Smack | Heroin (also horse, H, junk, skag, |
| shit, brown, Harry, boy, the white | |
| palace, the Chinaman’s nightcap) | |
| Sov | £1 (from sovereign) |
| SP | Information (starting prices) |
| Speed | Amphetamines (also sulph, |
| whizz, Billy, phets) | |
| Spiel | Patter |
| Squirt | Ammonia in a bottle |
| Stewards | Investigation (from steward’s |
| inquiry) | |
| Stretch | One year in prison |
| Stripe | To cut the face with a Frankie |
| or a chiv | |
| Surrey Docks | Syphilis (Surrey Docks=pox) |
| Swagman | A dealer in cheap market goods |
| Swede | Head (also loaf, loaf of |
| bread=head; noggin) | |
| Syrup | Wig (syrup of figs=wigs) |
| Taters | Cold (potatoes in the |
| mould=cold; also brass monkey’s, | |
| from it’s cold enough to freeze | |
| the balls off a brass monkey) | |
| Tea leaf | Thief |
| Thru’pennies | Breasts (thru’penny bits=tits; also |
| Bristols, Bristol Cities=titties; | |
| Earthas, Eartha Kitts=tits) | |
| Tiddlies | Chinese people |
| (tiddlywink=chink) | |
| Tin-tack | Sack |
| Tits up | To go wrong, or pear-shaped, as |
| in ‘it’s all gone tits up’ | |
| Tom | Jewellery (tomfoolery=jewellery) |
| Tom | Defecate (go for a Tom, Tom |
| Tit=shit; also a Forest, Forest | |
| Gump=dump) | |
| Weasel | Coat (weasel and stoat=coat) |
| Whistle | Suit (whistle and flute=suit) |
| Wipe his mouth | To put up with the situation |
| Wrong ’un | Bad or untrustworthy person |
| Wutherings | Tights (Wuthering |
| Heights=tights) | |
| Yelland | see Grumble |
Disclaimer
The views and sexual mores of the fictional character Harry Tyler do not necessarily reflect those of the author.
