by Daisy White
Right state: messy
Ring: telephone (verb)
Roadworks: repairs done to roads
Roedean: upmarket girls’ boarding school
Roundabout: traffic circle
Rounders: baseball’s ancestor
Row: argue/argument
Rozzers: policemen
Rubbish: trash
Ructions: disagreements
Rum bunch: odd
S.P.: starting price i.e. the truth about what is being said
Scally: scallywag
School Friend: comic aimed at teenage girls
Scroat: low life
Semi: semi-detached house, house with another house joined to it on one side only
Set of pipes on her: a good singer
Settee: sofa
Shandy: beer and lemonade drink
Shedload: a large amount
Shout the odds: talk in a loud bossy way
Sick: vomit
SIO: senior investigating officer
Sixth form college: school for high school students in final two years.
Skiffle: 1950s style of popular music
Skip: a dumpster
Slacks: UK trousers/ US pants
Slapper: slag
Sling your hook: go away
Snapshot: photograph (also snap, shot, print, photo)
SOCO: scenes-of-crime officer, police officer who gathers forensic evidence
Sod: an annoying person
Solicitor: lawyer
Sort: to do or make
Stick of rock: a cylinder of candy often sold at the seaside
Sticking plaster: Band-Aid
Stinks like a haddock left out too long in the sun: doesn’t sound correct
Stitching me up: framing me
Stunner: beautiful woman
Sun cream: sun lotion
Super: superintendent (police rank)
Sweet: candy
Sweeting: endearment, like sweetheart
Swot: a nerd, a geek, someone keen on their studies
Tabloid: newspaper
Takeaway: takeout food
Tannoy: PA system
Tart: sex worker
Tea: afternoon meal of cakes, small sandwiches, tea etc.
Tea: dinner (Northern English)
Teddy boys: thugs and young tearaways
Ten bob: ten shillings: pre-decimal money — half of £1 = ten-shilling note
Tenner: ten pounds
The Boat Race: famous rowing race between Oxford and Cambridge universities
The tube or underground: subway
This Is Your Wife: parody of TV show This Is Your Life
Ticking off: reprimand
Till: cash register
Tipsy: a bit drunk
Tizer: fizzy pop/soda
Tod: on one’s own
To-do: a commotion
Toerag: a bad person
Toff: upper-class person
Tommy Steele: 1950s-60s pop star
Ton: a hundred pounds
Torch: flashlight
Totty: attractive woman
Tower block: tall building containing apartments (usually social housing)
Travel card: transport ticket
Travellers: gypsies or other nomadic people
Triskele: Celtic symbol of three spirals
Trousers: pants
Tutor: university teacher
Tweedledum and Tweedledee: characters in an English nursery rhyme
UHT: ultra-heat treated milk for long life
UKIP: political party wanting UK to leave European Union
Undertaker: mortician
Up the duff: pregnant
Upmarket: affluent or fancy
Victor Sylvester: popular ballroom dancer and band-leader in the 1950s
Waccy baccy: marijuana
Wash: the washing machine
Water board: company supplying water to an area
Wedding breakfast: meal eaten just after the wedding (doesn’t have to be in morning)
Wee: little (Scottish)
Wheelie bin: a large refuse bin on wheels
White van man: typical working-class man who drives a small truck
WI: Women’s Institute, social club for women
Willies: (can mean plural of penis), to have the willies means to be frightened
Winkle-picker: pointy shoe or boot
Wolseley: model of saloon car used by the police
Yobs: thugs and young tearaways
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