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[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] ‘I don’t think he really gave a shit about us kids’.
at give a shit, v.
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] ‘There was fuck-all feed’.
at fuck-all, adj.
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] ‘I’ve got him by the short and curlies’.
at have someone/something by the short and curlies (v.) under short and curlies, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] ‘Raped that beautiful girl. Fuckin’ animal’.
at animal, n.1
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] [A] couple sitting at a table sharing a carafe of house white while they put away a feed of Asian.
at Asian, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] ‘He’d come in here for a drink on occasion. Could put it away, too. Not a pissant like you’.
at put away, v.
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] Some [journalists] are trying to work on laptops, swearing at the hypothetical wi-fi, while others are kicking back and chatting.
at kick back, v.2
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] He gives his balls a tug.
at balls, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] ‘Harley had indeed bashed Katherine, bashed her and raped her’.
at bash, v.
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] ‘It’s batshit crazy [...] Some things don’t need a reason; they just happen’.
at batshit, adj.
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] ‘Did he ever try it on with you? Or with Allen?’ [...] ‘We’d have sorted him out [...] beaten the shit out of him’.
at beat the shit out of, v.
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] ‘[T]hey sit there and judge me. Like I’m the town bike or something’.
at bicycle, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] After that, Martin kills the box.
at box, n.1
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] ‘Don’t know why you buggers keep asking me’.
at bugger, n.1
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] ‘It’s bullshit, but people believe what they want to believe’.
at bullshit, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] ‘Some of the greatest bums I’ve known were loaded. Rich scumbags’.
at bum, n.3
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] ‘He used to come out sometimes, go bush, camp out overnight. Said he liked the solitude’.
at go bush (v.) under bush, n.1
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] ‘Sometimes, when we was in our cups, we’d talk about it, doing the business. He had some good stories, I can tell you. But they were all about sheilas’.
at do the business (v.) under business, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] ‘Byron, it’s Avery. We’re busted [...] Snouch [...] knows who you are, what you did’.
at busted, adj.1
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] ‘Funniest thing you ever saw. He was ranting on about killing the priest. Allen and me were cacking ourselves’.
at cack, v.1
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] Lucie wanted to throw him in the can and sweat him.
at can, n.1
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] He’d been arrogant, no doubt about it, not caring tuppence for the opinions of colleagues, the plodders and the office schemers.
at not care twopence, v.
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] ‘Hope you’re cashed up [...] You may need to post bail’.
at cashed up, adj.
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] He sees Carrie the photographer [...] chiacking with the other photograohers.
at chi-ike, v.
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] [T]he homicide cops choppered in.
at chopper, v.
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] Snouch will take him to the cleaners and the Herald will hang him out to dry.
at take to the cleaners (v.) under cleaners, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] ‘Some grand conspiracy?’ ‘I wish. More likely cock-ups and arse-covering’.
at cock-up, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] ‘Has the bike and the look, but I didn’t see any colours’.
at colours, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] The cops won’t let them get within cooee.
at within (a) cooee of under cooee, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Scrublands [ebook] [O]nce the old coot has chuckled he grows serious.
at old coot (n.) under coot, n.1
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