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[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] He didn’t want to bottle in front of her.
at bottle (it) (v.) under bottle (and glass), n.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] He let Davie rabbit on for twenty minutes.
at rabbit (and pork), v.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] ‘[H]adn’t there been argy-bargy with the bar staff?’.
at argy-bargy, n.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] ‘I’ve got some awesome news’.
at awesome, adj.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] ‘I was worried you’d be so pissed off, you’d bail on me for lunch’.
at bail, v.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] ‘[S]he’ll produce someone too important to wear a uniform what’ll give us a bollocking’.
at ballocking, n.2
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] The Beamer soon left them behind.
at Beamer, n.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] ‘Mind your own beeswax. I’m not telling you’.
at beeswax, n.2
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] ‘[H]e thinks they’re the bee’s knees or something’.
at bee’s knees, n.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] ‘Benzos’, or ‘benzodiazepine receptor agonists’ were, apparently, commonly found in sleeping tablets.
at benzo, n.2
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] ‘What d’you bring the big cheese in for?’ [...] ‘In case we cock things up’.
at big cheese, n.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] ‘A big-shot gangster, well connected’.
at big-shot, adj.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] ‘I heard you got into a bit of a blue down the surf club’.
at blue, n.4
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] Davie [...] dragged ona rashie and a pair of boardies.
at boardies, n.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] The breeze comes again, stronger this time and somehow even dryer than before. It is a brickfielder straight from the desert, like opening an oven door.
at brickfielder (n.) under brick, n.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] ‘I’ve Buckley’s of winning a second time’.
at Buckley’s, n.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] ‘Let’s not play silly buggers about who pays the bills’.
at play silly buggers (v.) under bugger, n.1
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] ‘It’s going to take two of us to overpower him. He looks fat but he’s like a Mallee bull’.
at fit as a mallee bull (adj.) under Mallee bull, n.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] ‘You’re a bullshit merchant, but you don’t mean me no harm’.
at bullshit artist (n.) under bullshit, n.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] ‘I’ve done nothing wrong, but’.
at but, adv.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] ‘They get cheapos to clean the shitters’.
at cheapo, n.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] ‘Davie, we’ve been driving for more than two minutes and you ain’t chewed my ear off about what you’ve been up to’.
at chew someone’s ear, v.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] ‘Bit of nice décor and they might chill out a bit’.
at chill (out), v.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] ‘To show you, me old china, the headlines’.
at china (plate), n.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] Anita fancies she can see her reflection in the shiny claret.
at claret, n.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] ‘[Y]ou don’t look too clever right now’.
at clever, adj.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] There were [...] plenty of Coasties who’d survived a hard life.
at coastie, n.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] ‘What d’you bring the big cheese in for?’ [...] ‘In case we cock things up’.
at cock up, v.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] Velis had avoided using the compo conman’s name.
at compo, n.
[Aus] G. Gilmore Base Nature [ebook] ‘Your mate Angie’s a right cow’.
at cow, n.1
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