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*Mad man

*Doss houses

*Hands

*Kiss

*From “Brum,” i.e., Birmingham

*Can

*Insane

*Of weak character

*People from Shropshire

*Sinks for dirty water

*Beasts

*Flatlanders, i.e., people not of the Clee Hills

*Rendered giddy

*Beatings

*Angry about something

*A famous hill and landmark in east Shropshire

* “All the twinkling stars say, all through the night”

*Polish: “You pig!”

*From Ted Hughes, “Crow’s Fall”

*Good-bye

*London

*Awesome!

*Optical head-mounted display, e.g., Google Glass

*A person from the Black Country; can be contemptuous

*Nicknames for West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton football clubs

*Sorry

*How are you?

*Dead

*Annoyed by

*In this case, translator

*Breaking and entering

*An addictive and dangerous recreational drug of the future that causes a characteristic snicker

*Grievous bodily harm of the earhole, i.e., something painful to hear

*“Out there,” crazy, etc.

*Of poor quality

*All right

*Disrespect. Guyanese slang.

*Specialist firearms police units

*Yoruba term for an inner spiritual intuition or spark

*Generic name for a football-supporter organization, often associated with hooliganism

*Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

*The Revolutionary French raiders who landed in Wales in 1797

*Sikh turban

*MI6, Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service

*A large hold-all sack

*A Sufi chant: “God is truth”

*A full English breakfast, typically eggs, sausages, beans, bacon, black pudding, tomato, etc.

*Meal