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goose {v.}To grab someone's behind in a playful fashion.
Categories: British slang verb
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pig's ear {n.}1. Beer (Cockney rhyming slang).2. Something that has been badly done or has been made a mess of.
Categories: British Cockney noun slang
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knackered {adj.}1. Exhausted, tired.2. Broken, beyond all usefulness.
Categories: British adjective slang
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bent as a nine bob noteExtremely dishonest or corrupt. A nine shilling (bob) note never existed and would therefore have to be counterfeit.
Categories: British slang
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porkies {n.}Lies (from the Cockney rhyming slang pork pies)
Categories: British cockney noun slang
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get {adj.}Variant of git.
Categories: British adjective slang
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plonker {n.}1. Something large or substantial (Mid 19th C).2. Penis.3. A general term of abuse (in use since 1960s but may have been popularised by the BBC comedy series Only Fools and Horses.
Categories: British noun slang
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packet {n.}1. A large sum of money (earn a packet).2. A nasty surprise (catch a packet).
Categories: British noun slang
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miffed {adj.}Upset or offended.
Categories: British adjective slang
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minted {adj.}Wealthy.
Categories: British adjective slang
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crack {n.}1. A gibe.2. Someone who excels at something.3. Fun or a good time. From the Irish 'craic'.
Categories: British noun slang
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gash {adj.}1. Surplus to requirements, unnecessary.2. Derogatory term used for female genitalia.
Categories: British adjective derogatory slang
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darbiesHandcuffs.
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flick {n.}Motion picture, film. 'The flicks', the cinema.
Categories: British noun slang
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shiner {n.}Black eye.
Categories: British noun slang
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jag {adj.} {n.}1. A drug taking, or sometimes drinking, binge.2. A period of uncontrolled activity.
Categories: British adjective noun slang
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berk {n.}(also spelled burk) idiot, stupid person (from Berkeley Hunt, Cockney rhyming slang for cunt)
Categories: British Cockney noun slang
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bugger all {n.}nothing.
Categories: British noun slang
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bird {n.}1. Girl, woman.2. Jail time (From the rhyming slang: Bird lime)
Categories: British noun slang
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jack up {v.}Inject an illegal drug.
Categories: British Drugs slang verb
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