off one’s trolley: adj crazy: Some chap was dancing with cars in the street – I think he was off his trolley! Yes, I did just copy-paste the previous entry.
joint: n large side of meat, like a Sunday roast. The Brits, like the Americans, also use the word to refer to cannabis spliffs, which means that these days you’d be unlikely to get away with referring to your “Sunday joint” without someone giggling.
The Septic's Companion is an A-to-Zed dictionary of British Slang words and phrases, written by a Scotsman living in America. You may know it better by the title it had for the previous ten years, "The English-to-American Dictionary". The online dictionary is all free; the book contains all that and more riveting British stuff.
 | Brand new on this site is the forum - I am hoping to turn this into a sort of hub for people wanting to discuss anything British with a language bent. Because it's new, you still have time to get all the great usernames (although I have to tell you that "chris" is gone). The 100th member gets a free book! |
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People regularly ask me what the best way to read this dictionary offline is - at the moment, the best way is to buy the Amazon Kindle edition and use it on a Kindle - with that, you can take it abroad and read it without an internet connection.
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