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Sandbox

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Sandpit

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Hedge trimmer; garden sheers

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Secateurs

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Sofa

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Settee

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Baseboard

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Skirting board

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Sedan

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Saloon

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5
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Economy/coach class

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Second class

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Muffler (of a car).

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Silencer

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7
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Entry/exit ramp

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Slip road

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Wrench

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Spanner

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9
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Underpass (for pedestrians)

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Subway

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10
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Scatterbrained

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Scatty

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11
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One from Liverpool (and their accent+dialect)

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Scouser; Liverpuddlian (scouse).

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12
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Whore

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Slag

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13
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Slang term for ‘American’.

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Sceptic

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14
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Near sighted

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Short sighted

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15
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To sneak off from school or work.

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Skive

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16
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One who borrows money and such

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Sponger

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17
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Employee

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Staff

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18
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A goody two-shoe

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Swot

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19
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Fired

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Sacked

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20
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Equivalent to yummy

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Scrummy

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21
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A mess or chaotic

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Shambles

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22
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Crooked (I.E.: furniture).

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Skew-whiff

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23
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To bad mouth

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(To) slag off

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24
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To get fixed or figure out.

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Sorted

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25
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Equivalent to ‘Specialty’

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Speciality

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26
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Equivalent to ‘splurge’

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Splash out

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27
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Squishy

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Squidgy

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28
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Streaker

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Starkers

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29
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Adhesive tape; scotch tape

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Sellotape

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30
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Duplex

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Semi-detached house (a house with a mirrored house to one side of it).

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31
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Napkin

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Serviette

32
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Drop off area

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Set down area

33
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Sled

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Sledge

34
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Bachelor party

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Stag do

35
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Payment made out of your current account, which is a fixed amount

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Standing order

36
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(1) 14 lbs; (2) a pit of a fruit

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Stone

37
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Weedeater

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Strimmer

38
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Doctors office

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Surgery

39
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Porterhouse

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Sirloin steak

40
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Equivalent to ‘hot dogs’

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Saveloy

41
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Hard boiled eggs, battered, and stuffed with sausage meat

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Scotch eggs

42
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Rough cider

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Scrumpy

43
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2% milk; low-fat milk.

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Semi-skimmed milk (green top)

44
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Cream of wheat

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Semolina

45
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Lager + lemonade.

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Shandy.

46
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Traditional Blighty Easter cake. Heavy fruit cake loaded with marzipan.

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Simnel cake.

47
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Equivalent to ‘heavy whipped cream’

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Single cream

48
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No-fat milk

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Skimmed milk (red top)

49
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Finger sized toasts.

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Soldiers.

50
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+40% proof liquor.

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Spirits.

51
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Suet pudding with dried fruits and occasionally custard.

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Spotted dick.

52
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Green onion; scallions.

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Spring onion.

53
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Equivalent to limeade type drinks.

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Squash

54
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Buillion cubes.

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Stock cubes.

55
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Heavy food.

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Stodge.

56
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Fairly dry white beef fat.

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Suet “sue•it”

57
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Hard candy.

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Sweets.

58
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Jelly roll.

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Swiss role.

59
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Sulky.

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Stroppy (strop)

60
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One-way ticket.

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Single ticket.

61
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Private soldier (of the lowest rank).

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Squaddie.

62
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Immediately or right after.

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Straight away.

63
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Sticky situation.

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Sticky wicket.

64
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Right on.

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Spot on.

65
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Training wheels.

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Stabiliser.

66
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Box cutter

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Stanley knife

67
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Soy [bean]

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Soya [bean]

68
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Public school

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State school

69
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Rutubaga; (yellow) turnip

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Swede

70
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Dumpster

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Skip

71
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Sharp; well-dressed

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Smart

72
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Sales clerk

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Shop assistant

73
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Swimsuit

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Swimming costume (cozzy)

74
Q

Another term for appetizer.

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Starter

75
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Making out

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Snogging

76
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Mildly vulgar way of saying ‘fuck off’.

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Sod off

77
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  1. a small or insignificant person.

2. diarrhoea.

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Squit

78
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Badly or hastily built with materials of poor quality.

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Shoddy