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dead 'un
noun- unoccupied premises UK
Criminal use. - [A]n ex-member of the Surrey constabulary who had been nicked for screwing dead-uns on his beat. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 186, 1956
- a racehorse deliberately ridden to lose AUSTRALIA, 1877
- More rumours of rigged races, bought jockeys, “dead ’uns” and the like circulated. — James Holledge, The Great Australian Gamble, p. 33, 1966
- “You dirty little mug,” the undertaker said, “you pulled that horse up on me.” The jockey replied: “What are you going crook about? You have been getting money out of dead ’uns all your life.” — Frank Hardy and Athol George Mulley, The Needy and the Greedy, p. 75, 1975
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