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The Wind and the Monkey choose

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[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] ‘I’ll see you and your short-arsed little mate out in the car park’.
at short-arsed, adj.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] [F]or an auntie, she had a pretty good pair of shapely legs with a trim ankle.
at auntie, n.2
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] [H]e still had half a boner. Mr Wobbly was refusing to lay down. Christ! I’m half a mind to have a three bagger, he thought.
at three bags full, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] She was a ballsy little girl for her size.
at ballsy (adj.) under balls, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] The drug baron was his next door neighbour [...] he’d just walked out on the balcony smoking a skinny joint.
at baron, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] Les and Mr Wobbly were both basket cases.
at basket case (n.) under basket, n.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] He seemed to be having a mild beef with the woman behind the counter.
at beef, n.2
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] ‘Stop being such a fuckin square.’ ‘I think the expression Eddie, is: “A come down or a blank slate”.’.
at blank slate (n.) under blank, adj.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] How did I ever find her? Blowed if I know.
at blowed, adj.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] [H]e still had half a boner. Mr Wobbly was refusing to lay down.
at boner, n.4
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] Remind me, if I get the opportunity, to boot you fair up the arse before I leave.
at boot, v.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] Les brushed the talkback waffle and slipped in a cassette.
at brush off, v.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] ‘Probably a team of coal miners from Kurri or somewhere. All built like brick shithouses’.
at built like a brick shithouse (adj.) under built, adj.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] Warren reckoned she was just plain frustrated and under all the feminist bullshit she’d kill for a root.
at bullshit, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] Now they’d have two cops hanging around for a piddly, square-up pot bust.
at bust, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] ‘I also know where there’s twenty kilograms of heroin. Pure China white’.
at China white (n.) under China, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] [T]he word was she got chopped up by a young swimming team at an Adelaide university, and she’d been dirty on men in general since.
at chop-up, v.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] ‘Twenty grand. Not bad for a quick trip into Newcastle.’ ‘Not bad at all.’ Les was chuffed. ‘Thanks Eddie’.
at chuffed, adj.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] So they decided to swoop, arrest Les and squeeze the information out of him [...] And get themselves a nice big collar at the same time.
at collar, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] ‘Stop being such a fuckin square.’ ‘I think the expression Eddie, is: “A come down or a blank slate”.’.
at come-down, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] ‘Yeah, well I didn’t quite come down on the back of a turnip truck from Dirranbandi last week’.
at come down in the last shower (of rain) (v.) under come, v.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] The singer’s act was that corny, you could have boxed it and sold it for breakfast cereal.
at corny, adj.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] ‘If you want to crash out [...] I’ll doss in the other room’.
at crash (out), v.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] ‘I’d heard about sex. And read about sex. And sixty-niners and doggies and things’.
at doggies, n.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] ‘I don’t smoke dope. I smoke pot. Ganja. Junkies use dope’.
at dope, n.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] ‘You dopey fuckin moll,’ he bellowed.
at dopey, adj.2
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] ‘If you want to crash out [...] I’ll doss in the other room’.
at doss, v.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] Les [...] decided he might as well cruise down main street, do a scorching, tyre smoking donut at the other end.
at doughnut, n.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] Besides doing a bit of a dump on their colleagues Corris and Pope wouldn’t know shit from shaving cream.
at dump, n.4
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] [H]e knew how to grow good pot. So between the Jamaican seeds and Warren’s expertise, the end result was pure, stepping dynamite.
at dynamite, n.2
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