Meaning of wrong 'un | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A dishonest or disreputable person; a crook or rogue.
   UK, derogatory, slang
2. A googly.
3. A horse deliberately held back in order to lose a race.

Examples

“We might not have had that much to pinch, but they'd still have your brass candlesticks off the mantelpiece. There's always wrong 'uns, in every walk of life, who'll have whatever you've got from under your nose.”

“Some reasons why Naseem Hamed might have been stripped of his MBE for speeding, where acknowledged wrong 'uns Jeffrey Archer, Shirley Porter and Mark Thatcher kept their honours.”

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