magic booster bag n.—Gloss: Same as booster bag. «It looks like a simple bag on the outside. Once you look inside, you’ll discover the bag is a complex shoplifting tool. “They’ve got aluminum foil, ductwork and gray duct...
witness mark n.— «A man in life’s goodly prime,/Whose visage was dark with the witness mark/Of service in Southern clime.» —“The Sergeant of the Line” by M.A. Cuming The Drummer Boy , 1907. (source: Double...
whippy n.— «A chief of detectives at Kings Cross, Detective Inspector Brian Meredith, had said he was against police taking regular bribes but as far as he was concerned they could pocket “whippy”—money they found on...
shorteats n.pl.— «The Supreme Court decided to hold a full inquiry into the alleged Police assault on a “shorteats” vendor, who had been found fault for saying “hello” to a Police Sergeant lingering in the vendor’s...
interview without coffee n.— «The meeting between Geoff Hoon and Samantha, the widow of Sergeant Steve Roberts, shot after he had handed back his body armour in Iraq, will be something of an interview without coffee—military jargon for a...