Country Dictionary

high-laced boots favoured by skinheads and other undesirables

they put their bovver boots in and busted three of his ribs

cockney rhyming slang = pissed, intoxicated

two drinks and he was totally Brahms

sky rocket: cockney rhyming slang = pocket

I nicked the dosh, slipped it in me sky and had it away on me toes = I stole the money, slipped it in my pocket and ran away

a lawyer

He refused to talk to the police until his brief arrived

imprisoned (origin, UK)

Alfie got banged up for a five stretch.

to tease, usually with some malice

He said he's meet her at 7 o'clock, but after she'd been standing in the rain for an hour she realised it was a wind-up

a muscle brain who defends/protects a criminal or shady operator from other criminals/shady operators and also does his employer's dirty work in general.

Smooth Arthur was defenceless when his minder got banged up for dishing out a little too much GBH.