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[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] ‘Fuckin’ A [...] if I fuck up you’ll waste me’.
at fucking A!, excl.
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] ‘No offence. Never worked with a bird before, that’s all.’ ‘One thing,’ Leah said. ‘I’m not a bird’.
at bird, n.1
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] Wyatt didn’t bother with the back roads. he headed for the bitumen.
at Bitumen, the, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] His cover had been blown.
at blown, adj.
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] ‘Mr Trigg, there are procedures. Long service to the Liberal Party, and so forth.’ Trigg wanted to say, And old money. And brown-nosing.
at brown-nose, v.
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] Someone seemed to be selling speed and Buddha sticks.
at buddha sticks (n.) under buddha, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] ‘If there’s any bullshit [...] we hit hard and fast’.
at bullshit, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] ‘Can it, Tobin,’ Snyder said.
at can, v.
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] [H]e hated the thought of driving some old tin can.
at tin-can, n.2
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] ‘There’s a fucking contract out on him’.
at contract, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] The nearest cop shop is an hour away. I never saw a single jack .
at cop shop (n.) under cop, n.1
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] That’s when the bickering and dissension start [...] The cowboys want to take off and start spending their money.
at cowboy, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] ‘I want another crack at the payroll’.
at crack, n.1
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] You were going to charge him a finder’s fee for lining me up for this job of his, then dob him in for the twenty thousand. Am I right? Bit of a cunt act.
at cunt act (n.) under cunt, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] ‘Have you got form?’ [...] ‘Not me, mate’.
at form, n.1
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] ‘Looks like the boss fucked up’.
at fuck up, v.
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] ‘[S]ome old geezer’s feeding his sheep’.
at geezer, n.1
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] ’So [...] am I in? Is it [a plan for a robbery] a goer?’.
at goer, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] [S]he was bombarding him with ideas for the Steelgard hit.
at hit, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] Within fifteen minutes he’d hot-wired the bus [...] and was heading away.
at hot-wire, v.
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] ‘If he sees a car shouldn’t be there, he could jack it [i.e. a planned robbery] in’.
at jack (in), v.
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] The nearest cop shop is an hour away. I never saw a single jack .
at jack, n.12
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] The sign outside said Jap Job. The proprietor of Jap Job gestured with the watermelon at the motorcycle parts, tools and greasy rags that surrounded him.
at job, n.2
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] Wyatt had turned up on her doorstep six weeks earlier, on the run from a Melbourne job that had gone sour.
at job, n.2
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] There was $50,000 coming his way when he found Wyatt and knocked him off.
at knock off, v.
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] Mercs and Volvos and top of the range Toyotas that no one could afford any more.
at Merc, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] There was muscle here and not much else. But the job demanded muscle too.
at muscle, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] [H]e might hear if there had been any arrests—hear if Leah or Tobin had been nabbed.
at nab, v.1
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] [W]e have to be prepared for good-old fashioned force—cutting gear, blasting with nitro or C4 plastic, whatever.
at nitro, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Paydirt [ebook] Letterman did contract work for the Sydney Outfit now but he still looked like a cop.
at outfit, n.1
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