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SP
noun- the latest information UK, 1974
Bookmakers abbreviation of jargon “starting price”. - “What’s the SP on Arthur?” “He’s just helping us with our enquiries.” — Anthony Masters, Minder, p. 155, 1984
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 107, 1996
- So what’s the SP on the Crab? Can he get us there? — Diran Abedayo, My Once Upon A Time, 2000
- [J]ust to see what they’ve got, what sorta money they’re looking for, to get the full SP. — J.J. Connolly, Layer Cake, p. 108, 2000
- Cormack’s given us a bit of the SP about some of the thinking behind the development and that. — Kevin Sampson, Clubland, p. 20, 2002
- starting price bookmaking AUSTRALIA, 1941
- In those days S.P. was illegal but accepted and so long as they did the right thing and kept things in order, the police left them alone. — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, p. 136, 1979
- a starting price bookmaker AUSTRALIA, 1949
- And the S.P. had paid the full starting price–fifty to one! — Eric Lambert, The Veterans, p. 27, 1954
- “What’s the betting on the Cup,” the dark-haired detective asked the SP. — Roy Higgins and Tom Prior, The Jockey Who Laughed, p. 75, 1982
- — Joe Andersen, Winners Can Laugh, p. 165, 1982
- an establishment operating starting price bookmaking AUSTRALIA, 1965
- This is a restaurant; must be an illegal SP–and it’s bloody Sunday! — Frank Hardy, Hardy’s People, p. 67, 1986
- the US Navy’s Shore Patrol, or internal police US
- The Navy’s shore patrol takes over most of the policing. We saw Navy paddy-wagons in front of Guy’s, the Ship’s Cafe and the Penguin. But the SP’s seldom make a pinch unless there are fights. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 33, 1951
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