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[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] Julie grunted, shifted her lard-arse to the front edge of the seat cushion.
at lard-ass, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] ‘One to bail up the van, one to intercept the money. One to drive and monitor the police band’.
at bail up, v.
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] Batten arrived [...] his tiny god-botherer’s cross in the lapel of his jacket.
at God-botherer, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] Christ, he was a mouth-breather to boot. Didn’t he have the least bit of self-awareness?
at mouth-breather, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] ‘You shoot the breeze with colleagues from rival firms, swap stories, put buyers and sellers in each other’s way?’.
at shoot the breeze (v.) under breeze, n.1
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] [M]ost people would see him for a suave bruiser, not a businessman: the hands, the corded tendons, the chill.
at bruiser, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] ‘He must have chickened out and tipped off the police’.
at chicken (out), v.
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] ‘Police were waiting for me,’ he said, ‘and there was no painting on the wall.’ [...] ‘I didn’t cross you’.
at cross, v.1
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] ‘Worst-case scenario, we all go down’.
at go down, v.
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] ‘You know anyone able or willing to fence it?’ [i.e. a painting].
at fence, v.
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] Syed. What was she going to do with him? Filching money, staying out all night.
at filch, v.1
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] ‘[S]ad, fat, hairy fuck-ups who’ve decided to rat on the boss’.
at fuck-up, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] It had always looked neat enough. No clothes or dust balls on the floor, no funky towels on the bed.
at funky, adj.1
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] ‘And your aunt?’ ‘Went gaga. She’s in a psych ward’.
at gaga, adj.
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] Mainly he was a drug user. He needed money to pay for his habit.
at habit, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] Trask found himself [...] handbagging Leah whenever new male clients wanted to view an unoccupied house in a secluded location.
at handbag, v.
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] For all he knew, the Pepper brothers’ plan was foolproof: the junkie wouldn’t let them down, the heist would run smoothly.
at heist, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] Trask, picturing Leah with the hotshot, cleared his throat.
at hot-shot, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] The man was hyper, the litle eyes in his round face shooting sparks of gleee.
at hyper, adj.
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] [H]omes or businesses he thought would be worth robbing but, until he had better intel, he couldn’t say what the take be be.
at intel, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] [S]he wriggled her slim shoulders. It meant either Knock it off or Maybe later. It didn’t mean Do it again.
at knock it off, v.
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] They’d turn up in their Armani knock-offs as if there were paparazzi waiting. Sad, silly, under-educated boys.
at knock-off, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] Wyatt’s only interest in sport was that he’d once lifted the gate takings at the MCG.
at lift, v.
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] ‘It’s not unusual for serving and disgraced police officers to share certain interests with the meatheads who join bikie gangs’.
at meathead, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] Syed nodded with enthusiasm. Or that might have been the meth needing a top-up.
at meth, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] Valet parking [...] A sense of entitlement when they drove right in and handed their keys to a guy in a monkey suit.
at monkey suit, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] His passenger would get out, secure the okay from the pickup point, then signal to the guard.
at OK, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] Trask glanced around at the other paintings: community art fair gumtrees and op-shop horsemen droving sheep.
at op shop, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] ‘At least we got out before anything went pear-shaped’.
at go pear-shaped (v.) under pear-shaped, adj.
[Aus] G. Disher Heat [ebook] ‘Piece of cake,’ according to Jack Pepper [...] Stefan Vidovic tried to see how overcoming armed guards and locked doors might be a piece of cake.
at piece of cake (n.) under piece, n.
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