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[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] ‘Shit a brick,’ says Martin.
at shit a brick!, excl.
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] ‘Then we [...] get a court order to sell the factory and the land, and distribute any proceeds. But it would be cents in the dollar. Sweet FA’.
at sweet Fanny Adams, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] ‘This aggro young shit knocked out that man’.
at aggro, adj.
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] He was as dodgy as all get out.
at all get out, phr.
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] ‘The ambos were there in no time. They’ll testify’.
at ambo, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] [R]eleased with a flea in the ear and a boot up the arse.
at arse, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] [H]is son is trying to save his own arse.
at arse, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] ‘Local bigwig. Tightarse something-or-other’.
at tight-arsed, adj.
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] The mention of Doug Thunkleton horrifies Mandy [...] ‘That arsewipe?’.
at arsewipe, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] ‘Is that right?’ ‘Sure as shit it’s right’.
at sure as shit under sure as..., phr.
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] ‘[Y]our girlfriend and her pain-in-the-arse lawyer’.
at pain-in-the-ass, adj.
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] A kick-arse journo.
at kick-ass, adj.
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] ‘Martin fucking Scarsden! What a ball-tearer’.
at ball-tearer (n.) under balls, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] He told me to bend over across this desk [...] then he banged me from behind.
at bang, v.1
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] [He] wonders if the tide of prosperity [...] has deposited any lasting wealth with the battlers of Port Silver.
at battler (n.) under battle, v.
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] ‘Gets the breeze, kids can play on the sand. Real nice.’ ‘Sounds beaut’.
at beaut, adj.
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] His father will be [...] sleeping off a big one.
at big one, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] Poulos rubs his hands together [...] ‘The Supreme Court. Shit, man, that’s the big time’.
at big time, n.1
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] Martin doesn’t bite. ‘Her boy. Is he okay?’.
at bite, v.
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] [T]he mongrels and bitsers that roamed the neighbourhood.
at bitza, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] There’s none of the bling, none of the pretence, no compulsion to appeal to tourists.
at bling, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] Compared to her, Nick is a blow-in.
at blow-in, n.
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] And as if a starting gun has been fired, the kids bog in.
at bog in, v.
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] ‘[W]hy the fuck are you publishing it all over the Fairfax websites? They boned you, remember?’.
at bone, v.2
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] ‘You gave it to that bozo Doug Thunkleton’.
at bozo, n.1
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] Royce has shit for brains. He tried to sell some eccies [...] in the hostel.
at shit for brains, phr.
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] ‘Twenty bucks for a year, fifty for three’.
at buck, n.3
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] Martin gives him [i.e. a baby] a hug, holds him aloft to smell his bum.
at bum, n.1
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] Scotty and Jasper, smoking cigarettes and drinking, flicking butts with practised nonchalance.
at butt, n.1
[Aus] C. Hammer Silver [ebook] Chatting up the girls with his cheesy lines.
at cheesy, adj.2
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