Sixth-form college: school for high school students in final two years.

SIO: senior investigating officer

Skip: a large open container used for building waste

Slapper: slag

Smackhead: heroin addict

Snout: police informer

SOCO: scene-of-crime officer

Sod: an annoying person

Sort: to do or make

Solicitor: lawyer

Sparky: electrician

Spook: spy

Spuds: potatoes

Squaddie: a soldier of low rank

Stag do: bachelor party

Stunner: beautiful woman

Super: superintendent (police rank)

Surveyor: someone who examines land and buildings professionally

Sweeting: endearment, like sweetheart

Tabloid: newspaper

Tea: Dinner (Northern English)

Tea towel: drying cloth

Till: cash register

Tip: a mess

Tipsy: a bit drunk

Top himself: commit suicide

Torch: flashlight

Tutor: university teacher

Tower block: tall building containing apartments (usually social housing)

Upmarket: affluent or fancy

Wacky baccy: cannabis

WAG: abbreviation for wife and girlfriend, especially of a well-known sportsman.

Wally: silly person

War Cry: Salvation Army magazine

Wash: the washing machine

Wash: the Wash is an estuary and bay on the East Coast of England.

Water board: company supplying water to an area

Web-foot: Native of Lincolnshire Fens

White van man: typical working-class man who drives a small truck

WI: Women’s Institute, organisation of women in UK for social/cultural activity

Widow’s weeds: black clothes worn by a widow in mourning

Wilco: will comply i.e. yes

Wreckers: someone who tried to bring about shipwrecks to plunder the wreckage (historical)

Wrinklies: old people

Yellowbelly: native of Lincolnshire

Yob: a rude or aggressive youth or person