d.o.a.: dismissive term for a person considered to be a cretin or a congenital idiot (from the hospital term "dead on arrival").
Source: LS2

Da Ba(obsolete): mysterious character said to live up the chimney.  Like Santa or Daddy Crimbo, he might grant wishes.  Da Ba was something parents gave children to think about, by way of distracting them from more troublesome topics, and in that Da Ba may have been a relative of Icky the Fire Bobby

dab, a (Lancashire): a clever person, an expert
Source: GLD

Dab hand, to be: to be especially skillful at something
Source: Schur

Daddy Crimbo: Father Christmas. "Dicky Crimbo" is as frequently heard these days.
Source: LS3

Daddy Bunchee: an exclamation in response to an accident
Source: SL

Dadna (Irish): Grandfather
Source: SL

dag (Lancashire): to shear sheep
Source: GLD

Daisies: boots
The full rhyming component is daisy roots
Source: LS3

daisycutter: a low pass in football which travels almost parallel with the field floor
Source: GTH

Dale: They will.
Source: LS1

Damn, damn, double damn: two bloody hells and a bugger: exclamation used by an extremely angry person.
Source: SL

Dancers: stairs. A rhyming connection with stairs as "Fred Astaires" is likely here.
Source: LS1, LS3, SVEL, Moloney

dandies (obsolete): this refers to dandy-carts, a kind of spring cart used by milkmen in the 1920's.
Sources: SL, OED

Dangly bits: male genitals. Cf. "Bits and pieces," "bits and bobs," "tackle."
Source: SL

Dar. Me dar. My father.
Source:LS1

Darby and Joan: a happily married, inseparable couple, usually elderly
Source: SL

Darrell: That will.
Source: LS1

Davvies: Welsh people, because of the importance of the name David in that culture.
Source: SL

Day-old chick, a (docker's): a newcomer
Source: LS1

dead: very, extremely; used for emphasis, as in "it's dead easy."
Source: LS2, LS4

dead flies eyes (obsolete): a name school children used to give to cakes filled with currants or sultanas.
Source: SL

Dead spit: alike, similar to.  Perhaps a merger of "spitten image" and "dead ringer?"
Source: LS2, Moloney

Deal: a small portion of marijuana
Source: LS4

dealing, to be: this is a police term to describe the officer presenting a case history or an arrest summary.
Source: SI

Debtors' Retreat: derisory name for the borough of Wallasey, in Cheshire, but other places are often given the same "honour,"  for instances Pensby,  and Wirral.
Source: LS2, SL

deccies: decorations
Source: SL

Decker (Decker wid a lettin board): A cap with a big peak Spiegl notes that the term "letting board" comes from pigeon racing. The board protudes from the front of the pigeon loft for the pigeon to alight on. Elsewhere, pigeons are spoken of as "letting," i.e., alighting, on a rooftop. Actually, the decking is for landing on; the "letting" is there for a hindrance
Source: LS1

Deckies: decorations
Source: SL

Dee Block, of D Block: the punishment block at Walton Prison
Source: LS4

Dee. De Dee: detective. Now somewhat obsolete
Source: LS1

Deffo: definitely
Source: ANS
Source: GS

Dekko: to see, look at, watch for (army slang, originally from Hindustani.)
Source:LS2

Dem: They, these.
Source: LS1

demarmalised: Liverpudlian for demoralized
Source: PL

Depth charges: oysters
Source: LS3

derby games: soccer matches between two teams from the same town.
Source: MLS

Derbyshire neck: goiter caused by iodine deficiency
Source: SL

Desert-wellies( Purra desert-wellies): Pair of sandals.
Source: LS1

Dettol: a brown liquid household disinfectant; a proprietary name for germicidal liquids.
Source: OED

Deuce,a: two pounds
Also called a Dewybar
Source: LS3

deuce, a: two pounds
Source: LS1

dewybar, a: two pounds
Source: LS1, LS3

dhobying: scrubbing meticulously.  A dhobi wallah in India was a laundry man.
Source: SL

diabolo: children's game, involving two sticks attached by a string on which an hourglass shaped top is played.

dial: face
Source:DBAPOI

Dicin': street-racing in a stolen car, an allusion to the phrase "dicing with death."
Source: LS4

Dicker: a dog known for its amorous successes.
Source: LS2

Dickie Die Doe: penis
Source: LS3

dicky bird, a(rhyming slang): a word
Source: SL

dicky bow: bow tie
Source: ODS

dicky seat: front seat of a horse-drawn wagon
Source: A
back seat, or rumble seat of a car
Source: DBOC

Dicky Sam: earlier term than Scouser for a Liverpudlian, Dicky Sam is understood to be a corruption of Dick O'Sam's derived from the Lancashire form of the patronymic.  It refers to someone born and bred in Liverpool, within the sounds of the bells of St, Nicholas,.the waterfront parish church there.  There is a record of one Richard Samuels, landlord of an old sailortown pub called the Dicky Sam Inn, which used to be on Mann Island, near the Pier Head.
Source: Shaw ST, SL

Dicky Dirt(rhyming): shirt
Dicky then becomes a term for a false shirtfront, according to Minard.
Source: LS3

Dicky-docker: a rabbi
Dickie die doo, which is rhyming slang for jew, may be the source here,  but he allusion is also to circumcision.  The dicky-docker is the moyl, i.e., the one who docks the dick
Source: LS2, Moloney

Diddy: idiotic(mildly disparaging)
Source: Partridge
Diddyman. A small man.
Source: LS1

Didgie: digital car radio, frequently an object of theft
Source: LS4

didicot people: gypsies.  "didicoi" was a romany term for a traveling tinker
Source: SL

didly or didlum clubs(obsolete) savings clubs which women organized collectively.
Source: MEM

Dimbo: a stupid person
Source: LS4

Ding Dong: penis
Source: LS3

Dinky-die: an intensifying term, to imply the maximum of a certain characteristic. Other meanings for dinky: small, cute, neat, sweet, adorable
Source: Partridge, Schur, DS

Dip-butty: a slice of bread dipped in warm fat, usually bacon fat
Source: LS2

dipper: pickpocket (national slang since early nineteenth century)
Source: LS4

Dirt-track rider: disdainful term for a male homosexual
Source: LS2

Dirty. A dirty big plate a---A very large portion of---.
Source: LS1

dishonestly handling (or simply "handling"): receiving goods with the knowledge that they are stolen
Source: LS4

Divi: dividend check
Source: SL

Divvy, a: someone who is not intelligent
Source: LS3

dixie, keeping: to be on the look-out for the police, for instance when a game of pitch and toss is going on.
Source: SL

Dixie. Ee'll never be as good as Dixie. He has a long way to go yet. Spiegl says that the reference is to "Dixie" Dean, still revered as the greatest Everton soccer player of all time.
Source:LS1

Do one's nut: to lose one's temper
Source: LS4

do somebody up, to: to cause serious physical harm to someone
Source:ZCAR

Do ther mint, to: to break open and rob a gas or electric meter
Source: LS2

Do. We ad a do lassnight: we had a celebration (a party) last night.
Source:LS1

dob in, to:  to inform on someone
Source: Partridge

docco: a documentary
Source: SL

dock, to be in:  to be in the hospital, undergoing treatment
Source: SL, OED

Dock-walloper: dock worker
Source: ALS

Dockers' Umbrella. De Dockers' Umberella. The Overhead Railway (now demolished).
Source: LS1

Docker's tally: an indispensable identification tag in the casual labor market
Source: Partridge

Docker's doorstep: a large loaf of bread
Source: SL

Docker's Wedding Cake: another word for pudding cake, but also see: "Chester Cake."
Source: SL

Doddle: an inconsequential fight: all words and little more. It can also refer to an easy achievement, for instance an examination which turns out to be very easy, which in America would be called "a snap."
Source: Shaw II, Moloney

Doddy money: cash kept at home
Source; LS4

Dodger: eight-sided threepenny peace
Source: LS1
Dodger: bread or sometimes crude cake
Source: LS2
Dodger: spray shield on a ship's bridge
Source: SL

Dodgy: unreliable, doubtful, risky
Source: LS2

dog ends: cigarette butts
Source: SL

Dog: corned beef; dog wit' bite is corned beef with mustard
Source: LS2

Dog-butty: a corned beef sandwich
Source: LS2

dog's body, a: someone completely at the back and call of someone else
To be "dogsbodying" is to be performingf menial tasks
Source: L8, TIM

dogs' home, der: the Walton Jail, also known as the Waldorf-Astoria, or the Wally
Source: LS2

Doin' me 'ed in: driving me crazy
Source: LTB

doing a runner: running away
"He did one" means "he escaped."
Source: LS4

doins(doings):the necessary items. For instance, "Whur's ther doins?" Alternate expressions: whatzits, thingumajigs
Source: LS2

Dollar: five shillings, or a crown
Source: LS1

Dollied: scrubbed
The allusion is to dolly-pegs and a dolly-tub, used for washing.  The washing cubes used there were known as "dolly blues."
Source: Shaw II

dolls's eyes: trifling cargo
Source: LS1

dolly blue: a whitening agent for the wash
Source: SL

dolly mixtures: assorted variety of children's sweets
Source: SL, Partridge

Dolly: an injured finger which a child has bandaged
Source: SL

Dolly peg or peggy(also called dolly leg): a wooden appliance with two arms, and legs or feet, used to stir and twirl clothes in the wash-tub, which is also called a dolly-tub.
The Lancashire term for it was simply "dolly."  Dolly pegs were sometimes carved and sold by gypsies.
Source: LS2, OED, GLD

Dollypegs(rhyming): Me dollypegs. My legs.
Source: LS1, LS3

Dolly birds: a somewhat archaic term for attractive young ladies
Source: SL

dollyshop(obsolete): illicit pawn shop
Source: MEM

Dolly-tub: wash tub
Source: OED

domestics, or the usual domestics: a quarrel between husband and wife, usually of a routine sort.
Source: SL

Done, getting: getting arrested
Source: SL

donkey: nickname for a football player with comparatively slow physical movements. The donkey may be at the same time a very effective player.
Source: GTH

Donkeystone: a soft stone, creamy or light grey, used for coloring doorsteps and window-ledges. "To donkey" means to use a stone to clean a surface.
Source: LS2

Donnelly. When Donnelly docked. A long time ago.
Source: LS1

Doodle alley tap, to be: mentally deficient. See Doolally
Source: SL

Doolally: nuts, crazy, a foolish person. According to Schur, Deolali was a sanitorium in Bombay to which, before the turn of the century, soldiers were sent while waiting to return home. The boredom there resulted in eccentric behavior, which led to the coinage "the Doolally tap"("tap" is Hindustani for fever). Today one often hears and sees written "dolallytat."
Source: Shaw ML, Shaw II, Schur, SL

doorstep sandwich: sandwich made with a long loaf of bread
Cf. docker's doorstep
Source: MLS

Doorstopper: a large piece of bread
Source: LS1

Dosh: money or cash, an Australian usage
Source: Partridge

Doss house: a flop house
Source: SL

Dover: sexual intercourse. It rhymes with "legover," or sexual intercourse.
Source: LS3, Moloney

Doss: to sleep
Source: LS2

double ran-tan, a(obsolete): a loud knocking on the door
Source: TAGD

doubled over in bulk, to be: to be laughing uncontrollably about something.  See also "pleats, to be in."
Source: SL

douse, to be keeping: to be keeping watch for others who are performing a criminal operation
Source: LS1

dousy, a: a lookout for a gambling operation, or some such
Source: LWAT

down market, to be: to be inexpensive
Source: MV

down the banks: site of fisticuffs of a boozy Saturday night.  To give someone "down the banks" is to give a strong scolding or a telling-off.
Source: LC, Moloney

Down the banks: a quarrel
Source: Shaw II

down the yard place, the:  the outside loo or privy
Source: SL

dowse: watch, as in "keepin' dowse," or "douse."
Source: LS4

dowse it: stop it, look out, make ready to run
Source: LS2

Dozy bugger: slow-witted, incompetent, dopey
Source: SL, Schur
Dozy: dopey
Source: Schur

Drack: a person with prominent or projecting teeth(from Dracula)
Source: LS2

dragback: a maneuver to confuse an opposing player by dragging or flipping back the ball with one foot, then doing a half-turn and receiving it with the other, often "faking out" the player who is challenging.
Source: GTH

dragon, a: usually this refers to an imperious or difficult woman, a virago, or sometimes, jovially,just "the wife."
Source: SL

Drain me 'taters, to: to urinate
Source: LS2

Drainies: jeans, or generally, tight-fitting trouser, called drain-pipe trousers during the Teddy Boy era.
Source: SL and Partridge

Draw: a small portion of marijuana; it can also refer to drugs generally
Source: LS4, L8

drezzy, the: dressing room
Source: MMWB

driller(obsolete): a very powerful shot in football, sometimes with a spin on it to curve the trajectory.
Source: GTH

drilling(obsolete): what dockers thought the bosses were doing to them when they kept them around hoping for work.
Source: CLD

Dripping-pan: vagina
Source: LS3

drippy: slovenly, disheveled, unattractive
Source: LS2

drive someone around the twist, to: to frustrate someone or to drive them crazy.
Source: SL

Drom: one's house
Source: LS3

Drone: cow
"you auld drone," you old cow
Source: O'Mara ALS

Drongo: a worthless person
Source: SL
(Australian slang)

drop a clanger, to: to make a mistake
Source: SL

drop of the crater, a: a measure of whiskey
Source: LS1

Dropsy: gratuity. Give der doorman is dropsy: Tip the commissionaire. It can also mean a bribe, or a tip to the ship's waiter..
Source: LS1, LS3, Moloney

dry hash: a tin of corned beef beaten into mashed potatoes and fried.
Source: TIM

Dry sod: a person with a subtle sense of humor; a wet sod would refer to a bore.
Source: LS2

Dry-butty: a slice of plain, uncoated bread, also called "blind sarney."  See also: "bread butty."
Source: LS2

dubbin: trade name of a moisture seal for boots (and leather footballs).
Source: GTH

Dubs: a lavatory (from "double-u-c)
Source: LS2

duck: a search warrant, called such because it has a Liverbird at the top of the page.
Source: SI

Duck-apple Night: Halloween
Source: SL

duck's disease: what a short-legged person is said to be suffering from
Source: LS2

Duff: defective
Source: LS2

duff, to be in the: to be pregnant.  See also "pudding, to be in the."  To be in the pudding or to be in the pudding club means to be pregnant.
Source: SL

dummy: feinting movement, designed to deceive an opposing team.
Source: GTH

dummy: a child's pacifier
Source: SL

Dumping, a: a very heavy snow storm
Source: SL

dumping(obsolete): tallymen would deliver packages and secure signatures which really were an agreement to buy.
Source: MEM

Durex: brand of male contraceptives
Source: SL

dursent: dare not, as in "naw, I dursent, me Mam sez I shouldn't oughter."
Source: LS2

dustbin: a football team which has nothing to recommend it
Source: GTH

dutch, my old: a reference to one's wife of long standing
Source: SL

Dynamite: any effective laxative.
Source: LS2

Dynarod: a toilet plunger
Source: SL

Dynarod: a prison trustee
LS4