do a never

English

Verb

do a never

  1. (Britain, naval, slang, dated) To mess about; to idle instead of working.
    • 1943, Robert Burgess, Roland Blackburn, We Joined the Navy
      The Chief Buffer has got a howl on now because he got a blast from Torps, as so many of the part of ship hands were doing a never on the messdecks instead of working the main derrick.

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