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[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] [T]ake a taxi or the ‘bread and jam’ back up to Brunswick Street.
at bread and jam, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] ‘A greater bunch of no-talent, shit-for-brains adolescents with attitude I’ve yet to come across’.
at attitude, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] ‘I feel like a nice Beecham’s Pill’.
at Beecham’s pill, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] You Bible-bashing hypocrite’.
at bible-basher (n.) under bible, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] ‘Anyway, what are you blowing up about, you little prick?’.
at blow up, v.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] [N]early getting T-boned at Ocean Street by a woman in a 4WD.
at T-bone, v.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] The money they’d bring would help her and the kids when they got booted out of the orphanage.
at boot, v.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] ‘A greater bunch of no-talent, shit-for-brains adolescents with attitude I’ve yet to come across’.
at shit-for-brains, adj.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] ‘I’m going for an Edgar’.
at Edgar Britt, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] ‘We just run in. Do the biz. And run out again. Easy’.
at do the business (v.) under business, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] Les [...] got stuck into Stepha’s business again.
at business, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] St Kilda cap cursed and immediately cam back with a straight left.
at cap, n.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] It was all soul music and seemed to be a happy-clapping, praise-the-Lord station.
at happy-clappy, adj.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] The best [shirts] were around two hundred dollars, yet they were all made in China. Someone must be cleaning up.
at clean up, v.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] Between that copper pulling me over, and Uriah [...] I’ve been well and truly fucked.
at copper, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] All of a sudden Les was up shit creek.
at up shit(’s) creek under shit creek, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] Snort a few lines of coke, drop a tab of acid and do a bit of crystal meth.
at do, v.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] It wasn’t the worst movie Les had ever seen [but] it was a dog.
at dog, n.2
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] ‘ sure ain’t talking to you, dopey’.
at dopey, n.3
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] ‘Coming right up,’ said Les. ‘Sorry. Make that going right down’.
at go down, v.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] What if he went in drag? What if he decided to become Dolly Parton or Kylie Minogue?
at drag, n.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] ‘I want him shortened up [...] There’ll be a drink in it for you’.
at drink, n.4
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] Snort a few lines of coke, drop a tab of acid and do a bit of crystal meth.
at drop, v.6
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] He sold my sister-in-law a paitning for twenty-five grand that turned out to be a dud.
at dud, n.2
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] The huge meal and dud movie had flattened him.
at dud, adj.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] ‘That’s a Brazilian [...] a waxed fanny’.
at fanny, n.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] It’s some sort of gee-up.
at gee up, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] ‘I got a ghetto blaster and some good tapes’.
at ghetto blaster (n.) under ghetto, adj.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] [F]rom the ‘giddy-up’ it was obvious there was no love lost between the two gangs.
at giddyap, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Rosa Marie’s Baby (2013) [ebook] ‘[I] suggest you took over the orphanage to see the girls there got a better go than you did’.
at go, n.1
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