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[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] They wouldn’t know if their arses were on fire.
at not know one’s arse/ass from... (v.) under arse, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] ‘If you give them a hard time, they’ll bang you around’.
at bang, v.1
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] ‘That ALP fundraising bash’.
at bash, n.1
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] ‘I can’t stand these chinks [...] the Department’s even got me down for a community policing course, learn how to get on with the bastards’.
at bastard, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] Bent panelbeaters and car thieves.
at bent, adj.
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] ‘See if you can convince the bitch’.
at bitch, n.1
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] ‘You won’t hear boo out of them’.
at boo, n.7
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] For two bucks he’d jack it all in and bum around overseas.
at bum, v.3
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] ‘Funny money coming in from the States [...] caper like that’.
at caper, n.2
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] [of a Vietnamese man] ‘I can’t astand these Chinks’.
at Chink, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] ‘There’ll always be blokes who swipe cars, always be chop-shop cowboys who flog or use the parts off them’.
at chop-shop (n.) under chop, v.2
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] ‘[N]o need to go off half-cocked’.
at go off half-cocked (v.) under half-cocked, adj.
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] He had coke and gambling habits.
at coke, n.1
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] [T]hat panelbeater we nailed last month. We caught him cold with a chassis [...] swiped from Shopping Town.
at cold, adv.
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] ‘There’ll always be blokes who swipe cars, always be chop-shop cowboys who flog or use the parts off them’.
at cowboy, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] The yuppies [...] used coke, the deros [...] used crack.
at crack, n.7
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] ‘[O]ut of the car rackets, out of Mickey Mouse crap’.
at crap, n.1
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] Letting the old crim get used to the idea.
at crim, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] ‘Hope you haven’t got a dicky heart’.
at dicky, adj.1
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] The dinky Hondas and Corollas.
at dinky, adj.1
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] Eileen told him who was going to do over the Mesics.
at do over, v.
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] The gun was a .22 target pistol. Bax had confiscated it [...] thinking he’d need it as a throwdown one day, something to cover himself with if he ever happened to shoot an unarmed man.
at throw-down, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] ‘You’ve got the drop on me here. I’m defenceless’.
at get the drop(s) (on) (v.) under drop, n.1
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] ‘If there is any flack, we cop it’.
at flak, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] ‘The flash boys are sniffing around, seeing what they can pick up’.
at flash, adj.
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] ‘There’ll always be blokes who swipe cars, always be chop-shop cowboys who flog or use the parts off them’.
at flog, v.
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] ‘[W]e fork out ten thousand dollars and he gets away with it’.
at fork out, v.
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] ‘[Y]ou could fuck up’.
at fuck up, v.
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] ‘Stupid fucker reckoned he’d be able to take you’.
at fucker, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Crosskill [ebook] ‘[F]unny money coming in from the States to run the clubs and casinos’.
at funny money, n.
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