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[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] The usual Fremantle crowd. Workers and Abos and deros and Rajneeshees – every third person a nutcase.
at abo, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] There was a buzz in the room, but it wasn’t as he remembered it, beer-driven and inflected with aggro.
at aggro, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] It was the kind of share-market scam that had made so many Western Australians rich over the years, and had fleeced so many ma and pa investors.
at ma and pa, adj.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] Not much appeared to have changed since the days when Swann and Marion had gone out to see bands in the era of bare-arsed rock’n’roll.
at bare-arsed, adj.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] Cleo and his meat axes rocked up.
at meat axe, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] The minister’s famous Gladstone bag, something of a joke because of his long tenure as party bagman, was on the floor.
at bagman, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] Swann [...] did the barfly hunch; crumpled and bent, staring into the glass canoe.
at bar-fly, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] Word had got out about his boxing chops, and his hot temper, and he was called on by some older police to go the bash.
at go the bash (v.) under bash, n.1
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] [H]is dubious reputation as a bent cop.
at bent, adj.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] A blow-in from the east perhaps, or a miner from up north.
at blow-in, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] Hogan and his men had diverted their attention from prostitutes, bikies and criminals to the disruptions of ‘commies, ratbags and bludgers’.
at bludger, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] It wouldn’t matter, though, if he wasn’t [paid]. Twenty of the state’s finest blueing on a Coobie lawn was reward enough.
at blue, v.3
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] [T]he skinheads held the prime real estate of the Mall, the Bogs had lower Wellington Street and the Blacks still had large parts of East Perth.
at bog, n.2
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] ‘Don’t give up, boof!’.
at boofhead, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] The boozer’s trifecta, old mate. Emphysema and lung cancer, some pretty bad cirrhosis in my liver.
at boozer, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] Andrews [...] building a White Ox rollie, a regulation prison racehorse, thin and tight out of habit.
at build, v.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] The bunnies behind the [bank] counter were stashing the canvas tote bag as fast as their arms could move. Marked bills and all, he didn’t care.
at bunny, n.1
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] He left a note and decided to case Gary Quinlivan’s riverside apartment.
at case, v.1
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] ‘Looky, looky. Welcome to Chogie-town, Swann. Good to see a white man now and then’.
at Chogie, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] Swann was in his civvies, in case it got ugly.
at civvies, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] [N]one of Gary’s private school mates would be here tonight, [...] but that didn’t mean they were cleanskins. Life in the better suburbs was boring, so middle-class boys needed more excitement.
at cleanskin, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] No point lying. She had clocked him for an investigator.
at clock, v.1
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] Hogan and his men had diverted their attention from prostitutes, bikies and criminals to the disruptions of ‘commies, ratbags and bludgers’.
at commie, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] It was there in front of him, on the register sheets, the con that played itself out time and again. The classic penny dreadful, the standard pump and dump.
at con, n.1
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] Swann lit a Craven A, cracked his can [of beer].
at crack, v.2
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] It was uncut. He never used cut. She’d have been used to street shit, 10 per cent pure. But this was all pure. She’d hit ten times her usual spike.
at cut, adj.3
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] The usual Fremantle crowd. Workers and Abos and deros and Rajneeshees – every third person a nutcase.
at dero, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] ‘The ding prick. The smart-arse little prick.’ ‘There were eyewitnesses, who saw Leo Marrone and his boys’.
at ding, n.2
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] He’d know that Bernie wasn’t the dogging kind. But there he was, still shouting abuse.
at dog, v.1
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Zero at the Bone [ebook] There was no way he was going to sit in his vehicle and take a bullet, have a throwdown tossed onto his lap, or be loaded with something else.
at throw-down, n.
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