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Brighton Rock Glossary

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Bacchic

drunk and disorderly

Blarney

to flatter someone

Buer

a loose woman

Clapper

mouth

Dowager

a wealthy widow

Glace shoes

leather formal shoes

Green

innocent and naive

Lamp

to hit or attack someone

Ordure

offensive, filthy

Quoits

a game involving throwing rings onto spikes

Spliced

to get married

Throw up the sponge

acknowledging defeat and giving up

Yellow

cowardly

Polony

Woman

Orifice

Opening, hole

Vulcanite

A highly polished rubber

Bogie

Police

Swerve

Turn abruptly

Brighton Rock

A rock candy sold at Brighton

The wash

Restroom

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