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I NTRODUCTION
ADC (aide-de-camp)
Aggro
Antimacassar
Arriviste
Aunt Sally
Ayah
Badinage
Bagatelle
Baker day
Baksheesh
Ban the Bomb
Bassinet (sometimes bassinette )
Bathing dress
Beano
Besom
Best bib and tucker
Birkenhead drill
Black and Tans
Black cap
Blimp
Blotting paper
Blue
Bob
Bobby-soxer
Boche
Bohemia
Brick
Brilliantine
British warm
Brownie
Buggins’s turn
Bully beef
Capital!
Char and a wad
Charabanc
Character
Churching
Colour bar
Combination
Confirmed bachelor
Co-respondent
Cosmopolitanism
Counterpane
Courting
Cove
Darby and Joan
Dear John (letter)
Dekko
Dolly
Dolly bird
Domestic
Donkey jacket
Doodlebug
Doolally tap
Dottle
Doxy
Dry county
Egg on your chin
Eiderdown
Fancy goods
Flicks (US: flickers )
Four-eyes
Galloping consumption
Galoshes
Gasper
Gauleiter
Gay
Gimcrack
Gin and It
Halfpenny, ha’porth
Ham-and-egg shift
Hardtack
Heath Robinson
Here’s how!
High days and holidays
Home Service and Light Programme
Hugger-mugger
Indian giver
Invacar
Jam sandwich (or jam butty )
Jerrycan (sometimes jerrican )
Joey
Knickerbockers
Lascar
Liberty bodice
Lily-livered
Lord Haw-Haw
LSD
Lucifer
Lyons Corner Houses
Magic lantern
Matinee idol
Milk bars
Mods and Rockers
Mrs Grundy
Mufti
Never in a month of Sundays
Nice as ninepence, As
Nippy
Nit nurse
None of your beeswax
Nosy parker
Not all beer and skittles
Oojah
Ottoman
Parade
Parthian shot
Pell-mell
Penny chew
Pin money
Pithead ballot
Poodlefaker
Pooh-pooh
Pop (bottle of)
Portmanteau
Pound in your pocket, the
Pully hawly
Punchcard
Puttee
Quart
Queer Street (to be on)
Rachmanism
Radiogram
Rapscallion
Rot or tommyrot
Rozzer
Rubber Johnny
Rules OK
Rum
Running-board
Sawbones
Serge
Shanks’s mare or Shanks’s pony (to go by)
Shindy
Sire
Slide rule
Spend a penny
Spirit duplicator
Spooning
Sport
Sputnik
Stamps and coupons
Street Arab
Street cred
Student power
Tanner
To boot
Toilet
Tommy
Tonic
Touch of the tar brush
Trolleybus
Tube
Tumblers
Tussie-mussie
U and Non-U
UB40
Vapours (an attack of the)
Veranda
Washing boards
Wayfarer
Well, he would [say that], wouldn’t he?
What the dickens!
Whitehouse, Mary
Wireless
Wizard
Woolton Pie
Wrong side of the blanket (to be born on the)
Xerox
Yellow press
Yob
Z reservists
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