15 definitions by bill cranny

doh-ray-me

money, cash, currency

I was totally out of day-ray-me so had to stay home and watch telly

by bill cranny December 17, 2003

minder

a muscle brain who defends/protects a criminal or shady operator from other criminals/shady operators and also does his employer's dirty work in general.

Smooth Arthur was defenceless when his minder got banged up for dishing out a little too much GBH.

by bill cranny December 17, 2003

Stand on me!

Believe me!

Stand on me! Would I tell you a lie?

by bill cranny December 17, 2003

Brahms and Liszt (Brahms)

cockney rhyming slang = pissed, intoxicated

two drinks and he was totally Brahms

by bill cranny December 17, 2003

wind-up

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

by bill cranny December 17, 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.

by bill cranny December 17, 2003

Pork Pies (also porkies)

Lies (Cockney rhyming slang)

The judge said my defence was nothing but a load of porkies and sent me down for seven.

by bill cranny December 17, 2003