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[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook]He’d forgotten how efficient prison violence was. [...] Aggro on the outside was different: badly planned – if planned at all– messy and difficult to hide.
at aggro, n.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] Murdoch [...] thought about the chances of bullshitting her. Possible [...] if he could be arsed.
at arsed, adj.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] ‘Will you not bad-mouth me to know one what knows me’.
at badmouth, v.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] ‘It’s no big deal’.
at big deal, n.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] ‘Some old bird with bothing to do but call the fuzz’.
at old bird, n.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] ‘Whatever you need, mate. Charlie, crack, pills, smack, G, P, ice or black’.
at black, n.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] ‘That’s the bleeding opposite of the problem’.
at bleeding, adj.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] It was properly dark when they ran out of booze.
at booze, n.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] Murdoch [...] thought about the chances of bullshitting her. Possible [...] if he could be arsed.
at bullshit, v.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] ‘You’ll be bumped. Sorry about that [...] Till we find you another slot’.
at bump, v.1
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] It was a southerly; a southerly buster, straight up from the Antarctic; isn’t it cold?
at southerly buster, n.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] ‘Why don’t you buzz her and tell her I’m here?’.
at buzz, v.1
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] ‘Whatever you need, mate. Charlie, crack, pills, smack, G, P, ice or black’.
at charlie, n.7
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] ‘You still seing that chick [...] Celia?’.
at chick, n.1
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] Everyone was too chicken-shit to break out for the night.
at chickenshit, adj.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] ‘Whoa, take a pill. I thought you were a hardened criminal slash detective’.
at chill (pill) (n.) under chill, adj.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] ‘My lot’s boss [...] copped it with a heart attack during his trial’.
at cop it, v.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] ‘My mistake, she’s a bleeding copper’.
at copper, n.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] ‘Whatever you need, mate. Charlie, crack, pills, smack, G, P, ice or black’.
at crack, n.7
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] ‘Mate, you sure you’re all right? You crook or something?’.
at crook, adj.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] A cuppa would be good.
at cuppa, n.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] ‘[C]ut the bullshit and get on with it.
at cut, v.4
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] She rolled her eyes, told Murdoch he was a dag, and followed Walker out onto the landing.
at dag, n.2
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] Sometimes they didn’t even do it.
at do it, v.1
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] ‘I think a bit of dossing about might be just what the doctor ordered’.
at doss, v.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] ‘I never really thought about ’em when I was ... before I came down under’.
at down under, n.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] ‘She’s a drama queen — everyone round here knows’.
at drama queen, n.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] ‘You asking me for money? [...] Kinell, mate, you must be fackin desperate’.
at ’kin ’ell!, excl.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] Murdoch had fronted enough coppers in his life not to be to be intimidated by the Detective Constable’s scowls.
at front, v.1
[Aus] G. Gilmore Headland [ebook] Fewer people visited this building than any other on the street, but it was no worse a front for that.
at front, n.1
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