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by Joy Ellis


  A Level: exams taken between 16 and 18

  Auld Reekie: Edinburgh

  Barm: bread roll

  Barmy: crazy

  Barney: argument

  Beaker: glass or cup for holding liquids

  Beemer: BMW car or motorcycle

  Benefits: social security

  Bent: corrupt

  Bin: wastebasket (noun), or throw in rubbish (verb)

  Biscuit: cookie

  Bloke: guy

  Blow: cocaine

  Blower: telephone

  Bob: money

  Bobby: policeman

  Bog-standard: ordinary

  Brown bread: rhyming slang for dead

  Bun: small cake

  Bunk: do a bunk means escape

  Burger bar: hamburger fast-food restaurant

  Buy-to-let: buying a house/apartment to rent it out for profit

  Byroad: minor road

  Charity Shop: thrift store

  Carrier bag: plastic bag from supermarket

  Care Home: an institution where old people are cared for

  Car park: parking lot

  Channel: the English Channel, a body of water separating England and France

  Chat-up: flirt, trying to pick up someone with witty banter or compliments

  Chemist: pharmacy

  Chinwag: conversation

  Chippie: fast food place selling chips and other fried food

  Chips: French fries but thicker

  CID: Criminal Investigation Department

  Civvy Street: civilian life (as opposed to army)

  Cling film: plastic wrap for food

  Clock: punch

  Coal-hole: small cellar or compartment for storing coal

  Cock and bull: made up/ nonsense

  Cock up: mess up, make a mistake

  Common: an area of park land/ or lower class

  Comprehensive School (Comp.): High school

  Cop hold of: grab

  Copper: police officer

  Costa del Crime: area of Spain where many UK criminals are said to live

  Coverall: coveralls, or boiler suit

  CPS: Crown Prosecution Service, decide whether police cases go forward

  Childminder: someone who looks after children for money

  Council: local government

  Curate: assistant to a vicar or priest

  Dan Dare: hero from Eagle comic

  Deck: one of the landings on a floor of a tower block

  Deck: hit (verb)

  Desperate Dan: very strong comic book character

  DI: detective inspector

  Dint: didn’t

  Digestive biscuit: plain cookie

  Do a runner: disappear

  Do one: go away

  Doc Martens: heavy boots with an air-cushioned sole

  Donkey’s years: long time

  Drove road: an ancient way along which cattle were taken to market

  DS: detective sergeant

  Dyke: a wall or embankment to prevent flooding

  ED: accident and emergency department of hospital

  Eagle: boys’ comic

  Early dart: to leave work early

  Eggy soldiers: strips of toast with a boiled egg

  Enforcer: police battering ram

  Estate: public/social housing estate (similar to housing projects)

  Estate agent: realtor (US)

  Falklands War: war between Britain and Argentina in 1982

  Fag: cigarette

  Filth: police (insulting)

  Foot-and-mouth disease: viral disease of cattle and sheep

  Forces: army, navy, and air force

  FMO: force medical officer

  Fried slice: fried bread

  Fuzz: police

  Garda: Irish police

  Garden Centre: a business where plants and gardening equipment are sold

  Geordie: from Newcastle

  Get off: make out

  Gob: mouth/ can also mean phlegm or spit

  GP: general practitioner, a doctor based in the community

  Graft: hard work

  Gran: grandmother

  Habdabs: extreme anxiety

  Hancock: Tony Hancock, English comedian popular in 1950s

  Hard nut: tough person

  HGV: heavy goods vehicle, truck

  Hod carrier: someone who carries bricks

  HOLMES: UK police computer system used during investigation of major incidents

  Home: care home for elderly or sick people

  Inne: isn’t he

  Interpol: international police organisation

  Into care: a child taken away from their family by the social services

  Iron Lady: Margaret Thatcher, applied to any strong woman

  ITU: intensive therapy unit in hospital

  JCB: a mechanical excavator

  Jerry-built: badly made

  Lad: young man

  Lass: young woman

  Lift: elevator

  Lolly: popsicle (also money)

  Lord Lucan: famous aristocrat who allegedly killed his children’s nanny and disappeared in 1974. Has never been found.

  Lorry: a truck

  Lost his bottle: lose courage/ chickened out

  Luftwaffe: German air force

  Lychgate: a roofed gateway to a churchyard

  Mardy: sulky or moody

  Misper: missing person

  Miss Marple: detective in a series of books by Agatha Christie

  MOD: ministry of defence

  Mobile phone: cell phone

  MP: Member of Parliament, politician representing an area

  Naff: lame, not good

  National Service: compulsory UK military service, ended in 60s

  Net curtains: a type of semi-transparent curtain

  NHS: National Health Service, public health service of UK

  Nick: police station (as verb: to arrest)

  Nowt: nothing

  Nutter: insane person

  Nursery: a place which grows plants, shrubs and trees for sale (often wholesale)

  Obo: observation

  Old bag: old woman (insulting)

  Old Bill: police

  Owt: anything

  Pants: noun: underwear (adjective: bad/rubbish/terrible)

  Para: paratrooper

  Pay-as-you-go: a cell phone you pay for calls in advance

  PC: police constable

  Petrol: gasoline

  Pillbox: a concrete building, partly underground, used as an outpost defence

  Pillock: fool

  Piss off: as exclamation, go away (rude). Also can mean annoy.

  Pissing down: raining

  Playing field: sports field

  Pleb: ordinary person (often insulting)

  PM: post-mortem

  Portakabin: portable building used as temporary office etc.

  Post: mail

  Planning Department: the local authority department which issues licences to build and develop property

  PNC: police national computer

  PSNI: police service of Northern Ireland

  Prat: silly idiot

  Premier League: top English soccer division

  Public Analyst: scientists who perform chemical analysis for public protection purposes

  Publican: person who runs a pub (short for public house), a place where alcoholic drinks and sometimes food are served.

  RAF: Royal Air Force

  Rag: newspaper

  Ram-raiding: robbery where a vehicle is rammed through a shop window

  Randy: horny

  Recce: reconnaissance

  Red Adair: famous oil well firefighter

  Resus: resuscitation room

  Right state: messy

  Ring: telephone (verb)

  Roadworks: repairs done to roads

  Row: argument/argue

  RSPB: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

  RTC: road traffic collision

  RV: rendezvous point

  Roy
al Engineers: British army corps dealing with military engineering etc.

  Rugger: rugby (posh American football)

  Sarge: sergeant

  SCO19: Specialist Crime and Operations Specialist Firearms Command

  Scrote: low life

  Scullery: a small kitchen for washing dishes

  Semi: semi-detached house, house with another house joined to it on one side only

  SFA: Sweet Fuck All

  Shag: have sex

  Shedload: a large amount

  Shout the odds: talk in a loud bossy way

  Sixth-form college: school for high school students in final two years.

  SIO: senior investigating officer

  Skip: a large open container used for building waste

  Slapper: slag

  Smackhead: heroin addict

  Snout: police informer

  SOCO: scene-of-crime officer

  Sod: an annoying person

  Sort: to do or make

  Solicitor: lawyer

  Sparky: electrician

  Spook: spy

  Squaddie: a soldier of low rank

  Stanley knife: utility knife

  Stunner: beautiful woman

  Super: superintendent (police rank)

  Surveyor: someone who examines land and buildings professionally

  Sweeting: endearment, like sweetheart

  Tabloid: newspaper

  Tatie: potato

  Tea: dinner (Northern English)

  Tea towel: drying cloth

  Till: cash register

  Tip: a mess

  Tipsy: a bit drunk

  Top himself: commit suicide

  Torch: flashlight

  Totty: attractive woman

  Trumpton: derogatory name for the fire service, often used by police

  Tutor: university teacher

  Tower block: tall building containing apartments (usually social housing)

  Upmarket: affluent or fancy

  Vicks: a smelly ointment used to relieve catarrh

  Wacky baccy: cannabis

  Wally: silly person

  War Cry: Salvation Army magazine

  Wash: the washing machine

  Water board: company supplying water to an area

  Whip-round: collection of money

  White van man: typical working-class man who drives a small truck

  Widow’s weeds: black clothes worn by a widow in mourning

  Wilco: will comply i.e. yes

  Wool-gathering: daydreaming

  Yellowbelly: native of Lincolnshire

  Yob: a rude or aggressive youth or person

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