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[havinhoops]

Aggro: Aggravation - what I'll give you if you don't follow every rule in here to the letter.
'Arris: Your arse - the thing you need to get off now that you've actually finished the book.
Bird: See Dolly-Bird
Blag: Payroll robbery
Blagger: Come on, don't be thick.
Cooper, Gary: God among men.
Crooks: The blokes that keep us employed (criminals that is, not the Chief Super. Mind you, now that I come to think about it...).
Dabs: Fingerprints
Dixon of Dock Green: See Z Cars
Dolly-Bird: See Quim
'Er Indoors: The reason I work long hours.
Fag: Health food consumed by real men.
Fairy: Man United supporter.
Fit Up: I think it's something to do with falsifying evidence. That's what I heard anyway...
Form: Criminal record
Grass: Informant
Guv: Me, the Governor
Hooker: Prostitute or Welshman confused about football.
Intuitiion: What I've got and you haven't - otherwise you wouldn't need this book.
Job: A robbery, and what I'm doing when I nab the bastards for doing it.
Keks: Y-fronts
Lag, Old: Someone who's done plenty of time in prison.
MO: Modus Operandi. Latin for the way people operate.
Nab: Catch
Nonce: Sex offender
Off Duty: When you don't have to worry about walking straight when you leave the pub.
Plod: Uniform police
Plonk: Police(cough)woman
Ponce: A girly bloke
Porkies: Pork pies...lies. Southern ponce rhyming slang.
Porn: Both work and a hobby.
Porridge: Prison sentence
Previous: 'Previous form' - criminal record.
Quim: See Skirt (or what you might find in one...nudge nudge)
Rules: Made to be broken
Scotch: What you buy the Guv whenever you feel like. Single, mind you, none of that blended crap.
Scrote: As in 'scrotum' - the sack where a man holds 'is brains.
Shooter: Gun or the bloke holding it.
Skirt: See Bird
Slag: Petty criminal or slapper
Slapper: See Tart
Snout: Informant
Stitch Up: See Fit Up
Stretch: Prison sentence
Tart: See Slapper
Tit: A lovely natural invention and an idiot.
Uniform: Poor sods who aren't clever enough to be proper coppers yet.
Vagina: Nice
Woodentop: Uniform police
Xylophone: The only thing I can think of that starts with 'x'
Y-fronts: Meat holster
Z-Cars: What Plod thinks of as 'real life'.

(Chris's addition: DC Chris Skelton: Genius copper, love god, martial arts GRAND MASTER, sharp shooter, takes his beer like a real man, love god.)

Editor's note: Interestingly enough, the OED lacks printed evidence of "porkies" prior to 1985 and ''er indoors' prior to 1979. This doesn't mean that it wasn't in use, obviously, just that nobody used it in writing. Anachronism or not? You decide.

Comments

[poshmouthytart.livejournal.com]

Alex has no comment, other than a theatrical eye roll.

The mun, on the other hand, wants to add she actually has a t-shirt that says "slapper" on it that she got from BBC America. And unfortunately had to explain the meaning to her thoroughly confused parental units yesterday. On the other hand, seeing as the mun plays Alex, it is wildly appropriate.