(Britain, informal) A stereotypical tradesman or handyman who drives a white van.

A brake that normally operates under pressure, but engages fully when all pressure is released.

plural of dead man's brake

(literature) Any of a group of mostly working-class and middle-class British playwrights and novelists who rose to prominence in the 1950s, their works being characterized by harshness, realism, and disillusionment with traditional norms.

(informal) A snack resembling pizza but made with cheaper or simpler ingredients, such as bread instead of dough and tomato soup instead of pizza sauce.

(New South Wales, Australia, law) Any hypothetical reasonable person used by the Courts in considering questions of reasonableness.

Depression cake

(idiomatic) A person may be judged according to his behaviour towards other people

Any of various dishes, such as taramosalata, that are made with fish roe but cheaper than actual caviar. / Baba ganoush or any similar spread made with aubergine/eggplant.

plural of thinking man's crumpet