What is the meaning of town crier. Phrases containing town crier
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Old gooseberry is London slang for wife.
Cocaine; heroin
Partick Thistle is London Cockney rhyming slang for a whistle.
Drinking session involving having just one or two drinks in many pubs in one day/evening
If someone is in a nark, it means they are in a bad mood, or being grumpy. It's also the word for a spy or informant. For example a coppers nark is someone who is a police informant - which you might call a stoolie or stool-pigeon. The origin is from the Romany word, nak, meaning "nose".
Drunk
from 'derelict'. Used to describe people known variously as tramps, hobos, etc. i.e itinerent vagabond types who hang around parks drinking metho out of bottles swathed in brown paper bags.
Chillin, relaxing
money. Dib was also US slang meaning $1 (one dollar), which presumably extended to more than one when pluralised. Origins of dib/dibs/dibbs are uncertain but probably relate to the old (early 1800s) children's game of dibs or dibstones played with the knuckle-bones of sheep or pebbles. Also relates to (but not necessairly derived from) the expression especially used by children, 'dibs' meaning a share or claim of something, and dibbing or dipping among a group of children, to determine shares or winnings or who would be 'it' for a subsequent chasing game. In this sort of dipping or dibbing, a dipping rhyme would be spoken, coinciding with the pointing or touchung of players in turn, eliminating the child on the final word, for example:
Bissen is Dorset slang for be not.
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