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secondary school:high school—first year to sixth year.
first year:equivalent to seventh grade.
second year:equivalent to eighth grade.
third year:equivalent to ninth grade.
fourth year:transition year, equivalent to tenth grade.
fifth year:equivalent to eleventh grade.
sixth year:equivalent to twelfth grade.
septic:someone horrible/vain.
sesh:drinking session in a bar/house party with music.
shades:police.
she’d get up on a gust of wind:a promiscuous woman.
she didn’t get those knees from saying prayers:promiscuous woman.
she’d rip up the floorboards to get a bit of pipe:a promiscuous woman.
she’d talk the hind legs off a donkey:a chatterbox.
she had a face like a jockey’s bollocks, but you don’t look at the mantelpiece when you’re poking the fire:she was unattractive, but I still went for it.
shift/shifting:kissing.
shifting jackets:lucky piece of clothing, usually a jacket, when trying to pick up a girl.
shook:feeling sick/hungover.
shook like a hand at mass:trembling.
skip the fancy stuff and horse it into me:skip foreplay and have sex.
skitting:laughing.
solicitor:lawyer.
sound:another way to say cheers/a decent person.
spanner:idiot.
spuds:potatoes.
stall the ball:hold on.
stick your mickey in your ear and shag some sense into yourself:cop on.
stop crying or I’ll give ya something to cry about:a mother’s warning.
strop:mood-swing/pouting/sulking.
St. Bernadette’s:the name of Aoife, Casey, and Katie’s all-girls primary school.
