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[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] They’ll stick out like a dog’s knackers in those red tracksuits.
at stick out like a sore thumb, v.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] Billy suggested they [...] paddle four laps of Bondi, do a few rounds on the heavy bag, then finish with some ab-work.
at ab, n.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] I’m minding three abos and a chow.
at abo, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] ‘I’m running a bit late. I’d better bat and ball’.
at bat and ball, v.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] ‘I’m down here with an ABC news team [...] I’ve been with Aunty about five years now’.
at Auntie, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] He liked to kick right back and get into it.
at kick back, v.2
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] [T]he Crabettes swarmed in again and gave the crowd probably the best display of Balmain folk dancing they’d ever seen. With tigerish ferocity the girls just about kicked the five blokes’ heads almost off their shoulders.
at Balmain folk dancing, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] I’m driving a two hundred dollar banger.
at banger, n.3
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] Their parents were all battlers without much money.
at battler (n.) under battle, v.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] You fuckin’ beaut, thought Les.
at you beaut! (excl.) under beaut, n.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] [I]f the crowd’s view kept being obstructed and there were one or two bad decisions, they might go a bit berko and start throwing chairs along with the abuse.
at berko, adj.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] Les bit Billy for some change.
at bite, v.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] Elvis absolutely blitzed the Canadian; smashing, choking and knocking him out in the first round.
at blitz, v.2
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] ‘To be honest, it’s a bit of a bludge [...] I can always wangle a night off’.
at bludge, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] [H]is totally spare, fucking girlfriend tries to run him off the road in a four wheel drive. They start having this giant blue in the middle of the street.
at blue, n.4
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] ‘He couldn’t get in here for the cockroaches,’ said Rinh. ‘Hey, Dogs. A home isn’t a home in the Eastern suburbs without a few Bondi butterflies’.
at Bondi butterfly (n.) under Bondi, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] ‘Where does the agency find these boneheads?’.
at bonehead, n.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] Warren and Debbie were [...] pulling cones from a bong on the coffee table while they tore into about a gallon of vodka.
at bong, n.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] Hebe was a complete hump and uglier than a hat full of arseholes.
at ugly as a hatful of bronzas (adj.) under bronze, n.2
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] By the time Jamieson arrived, with the others spread out and spun out behind him, Les and Billy were [...] fully recuperated. ‘What’s that old expression Billy?’ said Les. ‘Coming in like Brown’s cows?’.
at all over the road like Brown’s cows (adj.) under Brown’s cows, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] I’m taking her down for an X-ray first thing in the morning, so the paddle’s brushed.
at brush, v.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] [I]t wasn’t the game so much that was bugging Norton. It was the man in the blue suit.
at bug, v.2
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] Buggered if I know. I’m buggered if I do.
at buggered, adj.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] The boys were in there bunning Warren’s girl.
at bun, v.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] ‘The boys have got a chop-up going.’ ‘What!? [...] You mean to tell me those clean-cut, country boys have got a bun in there?’.
at bun, n.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] ‘That’s about the size of it Les, me old currant bun’.
at currant bun, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] The Mustang roared into life and fishtailed away from the garage in a scream of smoking rubber. ‘Wow! What a burn off,’ said Rinh.
at burn(-up), n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] Nizegy had just got busted.
at bust, v.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] Just running around NSW like a blue-arsed fly getting it [i.e. a sports tournament] together.
at buzz around like a blue-arsed fly (v.) under buzz, v.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] They charged into the middle of the cage and immediately started punching and kicking the soul case out of each other.
at soul-case, n.
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