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Noun. Trainers (the footwear). Rhyming slang. Claire Rayner, known mainly for her role as TV/newspaper agony aunt. [1990s] Vrb phrs. To smoke heroin by burning the drug on foil and inhaling the smoke via a tube, such as a drinking straw.

Noun. A person who is unscrupulous and unqualified in business. Often with regard to 'cowboy' builders. To take, to obtain. Also cop this!, a facetious remark, meaning take this, said immediately prior to an aggressive act. E.g."Cop hold of this hammer whilst I get the spanner." Verb. To steal. From the Romany cor, to steal. E.g."You can't go choring senior citizen's pension books, it's unethical, even for a thief." [Mainly Scottish use?]Verb. To defecate. Defecate is infact a euphemism meaning to purify or cleanse. E.g."He crapped behind a tree and wiped his arse (anus) with a huge leaf." Adj. An intensifier. E.g."If this cunting weather doesn't improve in the next 24 hours we'll have to cancel the whole trip." Noun. Affectionate name for an attractively impudent person or animal, and someone who generally brings a smile to people's faces or may make one readily smile. Also as cheeky chappie.

Verb. 1. To share, loan or borrow. E.g."That's the third cigarette you've crashed off me in the last hour!"Adj. Great, excellent, essential. E.g."I'm going to buy that new tune by the Kaiser Chiefs, it's crucial." To damage, to injure. E.g."Last year I cabbaged my knee playing football, and it's still not fully recovered" [Northern use?] Adj. Very pleased, happy. E.g."She's chuffed to buggery that they are marrying before the baby is born." Verb. To die. Also ' kark it'. E.g."Princess Diana carked it in car crash in Paris." [Orig. Aust. 1970s] All the terms above are used in Manchester and can refer to the bread pictured below. The geographical spread of these terms (and others that show lexical, phonological or grammatical variation) was studied by the University of Manchester’s Linguistics & English Language department and can be seen on a map here.

Verb. To speak to a person in an impudent or disrespectful manner, albeit often light-heartedly. E.g."I get cheeked all the time in my job, but I love it." {Informal} Practically interchangeable with mint, it’s appropriate that a city so famous for its music scene has a music-related word meaning ‘great’.Similar in meaning to snide but used more for describing situations where someone is withholding something (information, money, sweets, etc.). Noun. An insect, or spider, usually viewed distastefully. E.g."Don't go in the cellar, it's damp and full of creepy-crawlies." {Informal} Verb. To chat, to talk excessively. Possibly from 'chops' (noun), meaning mouth. E.g."We spent the night chopsing in the bar and didn't get to see the film." [Mainly Welsh use] Noun. Excrement that adheres to anal hairs, or fur on animals. Also as clingons. Cf. ' klingon', 'clinker', 'clagnut', 'clegnut'. Noun. The act of deliberately ignoring. Derived from the s.e. verb to cold shoulder. E.g."She smiled straight at me but I gave her the cold shoulder and walked straight passed her."