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COUPON, n.² A face.Gsw. 1962 Bill McGhee Cut and Run 30:
He grabbed a pint measure from the bar, smashed it and jabbed the broken edge at Ben's 'coupon'.Gsw. 1980s:
I'll fill yer coupon.Gsw. 1985 Michael Munro The Patter 18:
coupon The face: 'Ye canny miss a coupon like that.'Gsw. TV 4 Jun 1992 Ian Pattison Rab C. Nesbitt :
Wait till ye get a swatch a his coupon.Gsw. 1992 Jeff Torrington Swing Hammer Swing! (1993) 88:
'This long wan here's Tam Padden's work — could fairly handle a malky, yon bastard. Big Durkin fae the Toonheid gave me this twelve-stitcher but you should've seen his coupon — butcher's windae stuff. ...'Sc. 1996 Daily Record 30 Dec 13:
Yon big chanty wrastler just wannered me in the coupon: Pardon me, ref, but didn't you notice Pierre van Hooijdonk hitting me in the face as we challenged for that high ball?Gsw. 1999 Paul Foy in Moira Burgess and Donny O'Rourke New Writing Scotland 17: Friends and Kangaroos 46:
An the men wey the stupit hats wey the feather stickin oot the side, big wooly sideburns coverin half therr coupons.