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haver

v Scottish pron. Â“hay-verÂ” ramble incoherently: I went to see granny at the weekend but, well, bless her, sheÂ’s just havering these days. The word is in common usage, and features in the ProclaimersÂ’ song IÂ’m Gonna Be (500 miles).

Half Inch

Half Inch

Pinch (steal). Someone's half-inched me pint!

quid

quid

n pound (currency). Quid is to Â“poundÂ” what Â“buckÂ” is to Â“dollar.Â” The word is very widely recognised and socially acceptable but informal - you could quite easily say: Â“Well, they offered me ten thousand quid for the carÂ” but you wouldnÂ’t hear any BBC announcers reporting: Â“The government today authorised a ten million quid increase in health service funding.Â” This perhaps says more about the BBC than this one particular word, but I digress.

half-inch

half-inch

Verb. To steal. Rhyming slang for 'pinch'. E.g."Yeah, I didn't have enough money so I half-inched it from my mum's purse." [1920s]

waster

waster

n someone who just sits around watching television and spending their income support on dope. Presumably derived in some way from Â“time-waster.Â”

queasing

queasing

v Mock version of Â“quantitative easingÂ”, the U.K. governmentÂ’s term for increasing the money supply in order to make customers happy, with the small expense of causing hyperinflation sometime in future. Probably ages away.

Inc

Short for Incoming Train. Used when a large enemy force is spotted heading for a specific location. For example, if a scout saw a Covenant zerg heading for Blue Road Keep, they would say in zone chat "dc inc brk".

fly tipping

fly tipping

v unauthorised waste disposal Â– most often seen in signs declaring Â“no fly tippingÂ” which have been hastily erected next to popular sites for dumping stuff. Originates from a time when houseflies were employed to remove garbage from the house, which they did using tiny little bags strapped to their legs. They would then fly in convoy to the fly tipping site and simultaneously unload their cargo, the whole event looking like a strange miniature reconstruction of the firebombing of Dresden. This, obviously, is a wholly incorrect etymology, but I canÂ’t be bothered checking it. Â“But,Â” I hear you say, Â“The internet is just over there. Why donÂ’t you just look?Â” Well, my web browser is closed. And my boss is coming.

HALF INCH

HALF INCH

Half inch is British rhyming slang for steal (pinch).

Gordon Bennett

Gordon Bennett

interj Christ. By this I donÂ’t mean that Britain is under the grip of a strange new religion where Jesus Christ has been replaced by a man called Gordon Bennett, who came to earth in the guise of a used car salesman to save humanity from eternal damnation. No, I mean more that this is a general-purpose expletive, used in a similar context to Â“Christ!Â” or Â“Bollocks!Â”: Your brother TommyÂ’s won the lottery! / Gordon Bennett! Its source lies in the mid-19th century with James Gordon Bennett, son of the founder of the New York Herald and Associated Press (who was also called Gordon Bennett, in case you thought this was going to be simple). Born with cash to spare, Gordon Jr. became legendary for high-roller stunts and fits of notoriety including urinating in his in-lawsÂ’ fireplace, and burning money in public. His name entered the lexicon as a term of exclamation for anything a bit over the top.

R & R

R & R

R & R is slang for rest and recuperation; rest and relaxation.

R&R

Rest and recuperation.

scarper

scarper

v run away. Usually from the scene of some sort of unpleasant incident in which you were a part: I saw some kids out the window writing all over my car in spray paint but by the time I got there theyÂ’d scarpered. It may be derived from the Cockney rhyming slang Â“Scappa FlowÂ” / Â“go.Â” Scappa Flow is a large natural harbour on an island north of Scotland where the British naval fleet was kept during World War One. All this extra information provided free of charge.

shirty

shirty

adj testy; irritable. May have originated in a time when people used to take off their shirts to fight and so Â“getting shirtyÂ” meant that you were preparing to thrash a rotten scoundrel to within an inch of his pitiful life.

Quarter-inch admiral

Quarter-inch admiral

A less-than-complimentary term for an officer cadet. The term comes from the rank insignia of an Officer Cadet, which is a narrow 1/4 inch bar.

LIQUID INCENSE

LIQUID INCENSE

Liquid Incense is slang for amyl nitrate (or any associated inhalant drug).

pikey

pikey

n adj white trash. ItÂ’s an old English word meaning Â“gipsy,Â” but nowadays pikey is also applied to people in possession of track suits, Citroen Saxos with eighteen-inch wheels and under-car lighting, and pregnant fifteen-year-old girlfriends.

ONE magazine, ONE, Inc.

ONE magazine, ONE, Inc.

One of the first Gay magazine. the October 1954 issue of ONE magazine was withheld by the postmaster as "obscene, lewd, lascivious and filthy," the publishers, ONE, Inc., fought their case successfully all the way to the Supreme Court. In 1981 the state of California granted ONE,Inc. the right to operate as an accredited graduate school, students can earned the degree of Ph.D. in homosexual studies.

lad

n 1 young boy. 2 bloke doing blokey things, generally including but not limited to getting pissed (in the U.K. sense); trying to pull birds; making a lot of noise and causing some good wholesome criminal damage. Various derivations have sprung up, with Â“laddishÂ” covering this type of behaviour and Â“laddettesÂ” being girls doing much the same thing.

swizz

swizz

n a small-scale swindle or con. If you opened your eight-pack of KitKats and there were only seven, you might mutter Â“thatÂ’s a bloody swizz.Â” If you discovered that your cleaning lady had been making out large cheques to herself over a ten year period, youÂ’d be inclined to use stronger wording.