or articles, bits and pieces. oik Someone of a low social standing (derogatory). off one's head (or out of one's head) Mad or delirious. off the hook Free from obligation or danger. off one's nut Crazy or foolish. old bill, the old bill A policeman or the police collectively. one and you're anyone's, two and you're everyone's A term referring to service men returning from duty, and not being used to alcohol. In the traditional music/dance halls it was said "one drink and they would dance with anyone & two drinks and they would dance with everyone " one's head off Loud or excessively. "I laughed my head off" or "She screamed her head off" for example. out to lunch To doze off drunk or high and neglect a responsibility. also "Lunch Out" owt Anything. Used in Northern England. Derived from aught. P packet 1. A large sum of money (earn a packet). 2. A nasty surprise (catch a packet). paddy a fit of temper. Paddy (capitalised) An Irishman (derogatory). Paki (Derogatory, offensive) A Pakistani or sometimes used to loosely describe anyone or anything from the Indian sub-continent. Paki Black High quality Hashish from Pakistan. Very very dark brown hence "black" rumoured to be opiumated. Paki-bashing Unprovoked attacks on Pakistanis living in Britain. pants Rubbish; something worthless. paste To hit, punch or beat soundly. From a 19th-century variant of baste, meaning to beat thoroughly. pasting A sound thrashing or heavy defeat. pegged To die [ie he pegged it last week] Thought to have originated from soldiers in the First World War playing the card game cribbage. Scores in cribbage are kept on a peg board and the losing player is said to 'peg out'. penny-dreadful A cheap, sensationalist magazine. phiz or phizog The face (from a 17th-century colloquial shortening of physiognomy). pickled Drunk. pie-eyed Drunk. pig's ear 1. Beer (Cockney rhyming slang. 2. Something that has been badly done or has been made a mess of. pikey Pejorative term used, mainly in England to refer to travellers, gypsies or vagrants. Sometimes also used to describe people of low social class or morals. Someone less than quarter blood Romani who travels, but may have less inclination to keep to the old ways (from Lancs Romanichal oral tradition) pillock Stupid or annoying person. pinch 1. (noun) A robbery. 2. Sail too close to the wind (nautical slang). pissed, pissed up Drunk. on