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Glaswegian and Scottish Dictionary :
Words and Translations into English.
Glaswegian or Scottish Word:
Cargo
English Meaning :
Carry Out - essentials from off licence or supermarket.
Carry Out / Cargo
noun
Neds buy all their shopping from the off-sales and cargo is their word for a ‘carry out’ or ‘Judas Iscariot’. A typical week’s cargo is 40 bags of crisps, 200 fags, 60 cans of lager and 10 bottles of Buckie. If money is really tight a Ned can survive without the crisps.
[From Ned Speak by Stuart McLean]
Example
/ Translation of example:
Ah've jist goat ma cargo frae Lido.
I have managed to procure 40 bags of crisps, 200 fags, 60 cans of lager and 10 bottles of Buckie - sadly it was all too bulky to steal
The Posh Man's Cargo
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