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[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] ‘Takes a judge to overturn a conviction. For an Abo, I don’t think so.’.
at abo, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] [He] liked to maintain the charge and not get buried under sleep, like most spirit alkies he knew.
at alky, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] He’d B&E’d all of the shops down the terrace row when he was a kid.
at b and e, v.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] Someone was white-anting the premier already. Most likely Sullivan, the [...] recently retired leader of the Liberal opposition.
at white-ant, v.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] ‘Good job taking down Dragic. I always hated that ape’.
at ape, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] ‘That friend of mine. Last seen snatched by bikies. Who pulled the trigger?’ ‘You looking for a reach-around too?’.
at reach-around, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] Swann knew that look – it was the look that every station sergeant cultivated when there was arse-kicking to be done.
at arse-kicker (n.) under arse, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] ‘May as well have been a public arse-reamin’ – that’s what it looks like to my rivals’.
at arse-reaming (n.) under arse, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] The Conlan brothers were either local boys done good, [...] or smart-arse shonks, playing fast and loose with other people’s money.
at smart-arsed, adj.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] ‘How did a half-arsed operation like this get in with a Conlan corporation?’.
at half-assed, adj.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] It was the third man who badged Swann [...] ‘Major Crimes. We’d like you to accompany us to Central. A little chat. Purely voluntary at this point’.
at badge, v.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] ‘You feel blue-balled now, but you’ll be right after a cold shower’.
at blue balls (n.) under balls, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] She shrugged off the bareback rider and reached for a towel.
at barebacking (n.) under bareback, adv.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] The detective was young for his rank [...] Didn’t move like a bash-artist, didn’t have the eyes for it either.
at bash-merchant (n.) under bash, n.1
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] ‘He’s a big-wheel accountant’.
at big wheel (n.) under big, adj.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] Having parked the stolen Mazda on a backstreet in Maylands, he’d followed the river dressed in a stinking old bluey.
at bluey, n.1
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] [T]here were no blackfellas or bog hoons or poor old immigrants on this street. It was all graphic designers and politicians’ offices.
at bog, n.2
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] ‘Carter’s just a bonehead’.
at bonehead, n.1
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] [of an Aborigine] ‘He’s still there. I bin keepin’ an eye on him, don’t you worry Frank. [...] Behind the frangipani. A big black buck’.
at buck, n.1
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] Either converse with your cellie – speak seven different kinds of shit, didn’t matter – or even better, go inside yourself.
at cellie, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] ‘No Chogies here, mate’.
at Chogie, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] Their chubbies hadn’t faded, which was a good thing. In all his years, Swann had never seen a man with a stiffie throw a punch.
at chubby, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] The circle-jerking, the smell of spoof everywhere, gash on everybody’s minds.
at circle-jerk, v.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] The clap treatments of the prostitutes in the [...] area.
at clap, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] Over a few middies Heenan talked of utilising Swann’s counterintelligence skills to keep the premier’s offices ‘clean’.
at clean, adj.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] ‘They’re either ex-detectives, sent back to uniform, or they were Ds in borrowed clobber’.
at clobber, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] Swann had watched Corvo grow up in Northbridge, always around his father Tony’s illegal gambling club, sometimes acting as cockie.
at cocky, n.2
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] ‘Tell that little coon that this is a good start’.
at coon, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] Riley talked like a mug, but that was just him cracking dumb.
at crack, v.4
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] The crappy wooden door inside, loose on its hinges, gave him even less trouble.
at crappy, adj.
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