Example: I nicked tolietries from the hotel.
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| * Nicked is British slang for petty stealing. Example: I nicked tolietries from the hotel. |
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| * Tommy Squeakers is the UK slang for "who cut the cheese" | ||||||||||||||||
| * Squatting is the act of occupying and abandoned or unoccupied space or building that the squatter does not own, rent, or otherwise have permission to use. | ||||||||||||||||
| * highfalutin means pompous or pretentous (to have airs about oneself) | ||||||||||||||||
| * Clap-trap is language that is empty or insincere | ||||||||||||||||
| * Creme de la Creme means the very best | ||||||||||||||||
| * Hemidemisemiquaver is a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note | ||||||||||||||||
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