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  • noun UK, slang Electricity.

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Diminutive of electricity.

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Examples

  • Static leccy embeds itself down to the component level of the motherboard, builds up & builds up then, one day, one more ‘zap’ and it gets released through the whole system.

    How Can I Keep Static Electricty From Zapping My Computer? | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • Its just a step till they introduce 50 / 50 power train .. half the race run on Gas and the second half run on leccy.

    Wired Top Stories 2009

  • This is a short instrumental, beginning with some haphazard sounds and then a leccy piano on heavy tremolo.

    Shuffleathon ’07 Review « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2007

  • Since the reason for rising leccy bills is because we have windmills rather than (1.7p a unit) nuclear power it is disgustingly cynical of the LDs to try to make hay with those who are suffering (& sometimes dying).

    Lib Dem's Whining Here Jeff 2009

  • Since the reason for rising leccy bills is because we have windmills rather than (1.7p a unit) nuclear power it is disgustingly cynical of the LDs to try to make hay with those who are suffering (& sometimes dying).

    A Nuclear Fallout Jeff 2009

  • I miss my flat where they (said jobsworths) had bodged everything so my bills were 37p a quarter for leccy and about 7p for gas.

    Drowning In Lies Newmania 2007

  • Since the reason for rising leccy bills is because we have windmills rather than (1.7p a unit) nuclear power it is disgustingly cynical of the LDs to try to make hay with those who are suffering (& sometimes dying).

    Archive 2009-04-01 Jeff 2009

  • If the leccy goes off and it is probably going to go off this winter anyway you probably need power to keep the central heating boiler working.

    Weathering the storm Shades 2008

  • If the leccy goes off and it is probably going to go off this winter anyway you probably need power to keep the central heating boiler working.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Deft 2008

  • Possibly not the woefully inefficient BT, but certainly Gas and 'leccy companies.

    Their Own Worst Enemies 2007

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  • The girls have got a house that's like a caravan

    And it's like your holidays whenever you go round

    And we always have a laugh and then we all get in the bath

    To save on the leccy bill

    Me & Jo & Phil'

    (String Bean Jean, by Belle and Sebastian)

    July 28, 2008