Dictionary of Playground Slang (Online)

Single cigarettes sold by shopkeepers to schoolchildren (and presumably to anyone else who couldn't afford 1.50 for a pack of Embassy). Normally kept in a jar or glass on the shelf by the ciggies. These were sold in blatant disregard of the law prohibiting the sale of cigs to the under-16s.

Spending money. Cash. "Damn that meal cost me some loot!"

Mysterious disease transmitted to you by getting too close to one of the great unwashed from the council estate. I think it originally meant fleas, but the above definition is how it was used in my playground.

Used to express someone's having lost control emotionally (generally refers to rage or tears), or lost their mind (meaning they did something nobody else would EVER do). No sexual connotations.

Insane. Someone who has "lost the plot". a person who has erratic ideas and tries to put them into practice. Used most commonly by high-schoolers between the ages of 13 and 17. This word was mostly used by "in" crowds. ie popular groups to distinguish themselves from others who are contemptible of being "popular" and show this by deliberately seeming as though they have "lost it".

Doing a 'Louis' on someone was where one kid was getting angry and threatening towards another in a particularly uncontrolled manner, almost irrationally and out of proportion to the reason for getting angry. The person would be having a 'Louis' themselves, but at the same time doing a 'Louis' on the other kid.

For example, "Whats up with him? All I did was break his pencil and he did a 'Louis' on me.". Since found out from a West Mids work colleague that he knew of 'having a Louis' through the 70's in Smethwick, which ammounts to the same uncontrolled, threatening, out of all proportions anger.

Want to buy a louis?, Refers to a sixteenth of an ounce of hashish, which has always been a popular drug in UK playgrounds.

(ed: It has? I really must've led a sheltered life). After Louis XVI (sixteenth).

Small red bruise on the skin surface (usually neck area) caused by 'sucking' on the surface, i.e. creating a vacuum, that breaks some blood vessels creating the distinctive markings. The name is due in part to a person showing a level of affection by allowing it to be done as it can be a painful process, and in part due to a belief that the bites are a normal part of lovemaking.

Girls who have them are viewed by guys with interest in case they spontaneously become tarts! Boys that have them are often sad case losers who have created them themselves by pinching and manipulating the skin (e.g. by sucking on their own necks with the houshold vaccum cleaner!) to give the impression they have a girlfriend.

Someone who, whilst being excessively hairy, is found attractive by another.

To jump. If the football went over the wall into the field you had to find someone tall who could 'lowp' ower the fence to retrieve it. Geordie contribution, but poss. also Scots.

(1) The male penis.

(2. An excessively stupid or unpleasant person.

A small paper bag containing a selection of sweets and often containing a small toy as well.

Lysergic acid diethyl amide (LED). The name derives from the first word of the chemical itself and famously mad an appearence in the Beatles sog "Lucy in the scky with diamonds".

Ears. Used as "I'll batt yer lugs for yer!", or "Christ that Prince Charles has a huge pair of lugs on 'im!!".

Fart.

Loser, person with no friends, doesn't "fit in" and does nothing right. These were people who brought lunch to school in a bag, then went off to sit and eat it alone because no-one liked them.

Phlegm. e.g. "That was some tasty lung butter!" , or "I just coughed up a big hunk of lung butter" - referring to the phlegm coughed up due to illness.

Imaginary sickness that 1) girls had and you contracted by kissing them. 2) you had as a matter of course from being smelly or dirty or not like the other kids.

The imaginary disease of the lurgi could also be spontaneously developed by someone in order to start a game whereby the afflicted child had to pass it on to someone else by touch. Other children could protect themselves by calling "injected!" and miming using a syringe in their arm. The word originates from an episode of the British 50s radio programme The Goon Show. The episode was called "Lurgi Strikes Britain", telling the story of an epidemic of the fictitious disease - and 45 years later the word is used universally across British schools by children who have never heard of the Goons.

Superlative of lush. If it wasn't just lush, but particularly good, it was Lush McGush. Several other words were "Mc" something'd but contributor forgot them.

(ed: suggestions please?)

Very good, tasting really nice, looking really attractive. i.e. "She's really lush.", "That tastes lush.", "Did you see that programme last night, it was lush". From luscious.