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First published 2005 (SND, online supplement).
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Quotation dates: 1988-2000
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NASH, v.2 To hurry. (Edb. 2000s).Edb. 1988:
Nash round to the shops and get me a packet of fags.Edb. 1991:
I've got to get nashin', I'm late for work already!Edb. 1992:
I'd gie ye a lift — but I've got to nash.Edb. 1993 Irvine Welsh Trainspotting (1994) 109:
Ah've goat tae fuckin nash. Me n Lexo pulled a bit ay business oaf. Ah'm sayin nae mair oan the fuckin subject, but it's the best ah disappear fir a couple ay weeks.Edb. 1995 Dougie McKenzie in Joy Hendry Chapman 81 38:
Ma Shughy is a barry gadge,
No shy, no shan, a total radge.
When we walk oot they're aa impressed.
He only nashes wi the best.Edb. 1999 Laura Hird Born Free (2000) 64:
We nash all the way down Bread Street, past the hotel and the paintball place, up an alleyway beside the vet's and squeeze behind a big industrial dustbin.Sc. 1999 Scotsman 26 Aug 14:
There are small spin-offs, too, when fans arrive to retrace the steps of their film heroes, such as Ewan McGregor in Trainspotting, "nashing" along Princes Street after being on the "chorey" (to use the local lingo writ large by author Irvine Welsh) — all the way back to his heroin-riddled hellhole (the shooting-up scenes were shot in Glasgow).Dundee 2000 Matthew Fitt But n Ben A-Go-Go 85:
Twa polis nashed past him in Sraid-na-Macantoir.
