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Niddrie is a poor area of many council houses in Edinburgh, Scotland. It has a high unemployment rate with many of its residence unemployed, in the jail, taking drugs or just doing nothing.

During those rare Sunny days in Scotland the residents of Niddrie often just sit in the sun (after they get out of bed about midday). After about a week it's as if they have been on holiday.

When people in Niddrie are asked where they have been they reply this is a 'Niddrie Tan.

Simply they have nothing better to do than sit and do nothing but get a tan.
I haven't been on holiday, I don't work so I just have a Niddrie Tan.

I got my Niddrie Tan from sitting in my front garden.

I got a Niddrie Tan from passing out in the street and woke up a few days later.

I take a lot of drugs and passed out in Niddrie, when I woke up I was tanned to fuck. It's a Niddrie Tan.

Police attend incident in Niddrie but blinded by the Niddrie Tan' s so back off.

Electrician attends a Job in Niddrie, told to safely disconnect mains power to sunbed as they don't need the power as they are going to get their Niddrie Tan
by Tapir Envy June 25, 2018
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Phrase used by the police to describe a criminal type who is often drug dependant, intoxicated, unemployable, lacks common sense and dignity, unwashed, wears Burberry clothing, white baseball cap, wears a tracksuit to court, wears pyjamas to walk down the street, talks in a whiney voice.
Stupid Mongs. If they were bright we wouldn't catch them
by Tapir Envy April 24, 2018
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Horsting, Horst, Horsted

To Horst; a deliberate or unintentional act of inactivity. A form of lazyness found to exist within some humans. To have done nothing with themselves all day, to fail to achieve any work and in fact try and avoid work. Horsting is completing or directly be inactivity purpisfully or unintentionally. Horsted as to have wasted the day away and completed or achieved or learned nothing.

Horsting; when asked or given a required work to achieve they declined to achieve this or complete this. This is the deliberate act of inactivity.
You've done nothing and been lazy all day. Shortened version. You've horsted the day away.

That guy/girl at work avoids doing any work. Short version. They are a horster.

All pigs do is horst the day away. Eating, doing nothing and sleeping.
by Tapir Envy December 26, 2017
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