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away
adjective- in prison UK, 1909
Euphemistic. - Why I’d not recently seen him, is that he’d been away inside. — Colin MacInnes, Absolute Beginners, 1959
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 23, 1996
- Where’ve you been? You “been away” or something? — Diran Abedayo, My Once Upon A Time, p. 118, 2000
- overseas BARBADOS
- — Frank A. Collymore, Barbadian Dialect, p. 13, 1965
- crazy UK: SCOTLAND, 1988
- The guy’s no right in the heid, pal, he’s away. — Michael Munro, The Patter, Another Blast, 1988
- in bar dice games, counting for nothing US
A call of “aces away” would mean that rolls of one have no point value. - — Gil Jacobs, The World’s Best Dice Games, p. 191, 1976
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