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Definitions by bill cranny

sent down 

The judge said that in view of my past record he was going to send me down for a seven stretch.
sent down by Bill Cranny December 16, 2003

Brahms and Liszt (Brahms) 

cockney rhyming slang = pissed, intoxicated
two drinks and he was totally Brahms

bovver boots 

high-laced boots favoured by skinheads and other undesirables
they put their bovver boots in and busted three of his ribs
bovver boots by Bill Cranny December 16, 2003

Stand on me! 

Stand on me! Would I tell you a lie?
Stand on me! by Bill Cranny December 16, 2003

wind-up merchant 

a teaser, especially of gullible people
He's a real wind-up merchant, to him every day is April Fool's Day.
wind-up merchant by Bill Cranny December 16, 2003
to tease, usually with some malice
He said he's meet her at 7 o'clock, but after she'd been standing in the rain for an hour she realised it was a wind-up
wind-up by Bill Cranny December 16, 2003

bovver boy 

cockney pron. for bother boy; a skinhead or other thuggish anti-social no-brain
This gang of bovver boys crashed the party and wrecked the place.
bovver boy by Bill Cranny December 16, 2003