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[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 19: Bruce the Rooster proposed a chugalug.
at chug-a-lug, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 46: ‘Friggin’ abos and other boongs’.
at abo, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 33: McGruder mumbled something [...] which you could bet your agates was not at all nice.
at bet one’s agates (v.) under agates, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 36: ‘Look,’ said Mick The Muso with much less aggro this time.
at aggro, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 68: Any aleck knows that the the kind of bloke who goes and inspects sofas [...] isn’t giving much thought to playing the dead horse game.
at alec, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 10: That musta just about busted the yobbo’s alexander.
at Alexander’s ragtime band, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 15: ‘I’ll have a G and T if you don’t mind’.
at g. and t., n.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 37: They even had a celebration gay ’n’ hearty.
at gay and hearty, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 10: ‘[He] crept up behind Awful’s hammer and whacked Awful on the gregory’.
at hammer and tack, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 9: ‘[H]e dodged over the frog to give ’em a bitta swish’.
at frog (and toad), n.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 104: The once humble ex-German army foot-slogger [...] had it all well and truly by the short and curlies.
at have someone/something by the short and curlies (v.) under short and curlies, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 10: He [...] pulled him into the gutter — whisper and stutter.
at whisper and stutter, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 21: He lobbed all on his pat...no cheese, no chinas.
at cheese and kisses, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 11: Go and get a new buddy hackett, a pair of casual cary grants and maybe a couple of new grime and dirts and a pair of casual st louis blues.
at grime and dirt, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 13: Maloney originally lobbed in The Cross [...] when he was till hardly more than an anklebiter.
at ankle-biter (n.) under ankle, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 126: Bush apes and bushrangers were there to have a go at picking the pockets of the bush baptists and bush lawyers.
at bush ape (n.) under ape, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 47: Come to think of it though, that sounds a bit arse-about.
at arse about face under arse, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 105: Uncle Otto even did an arse about on Adolf [...] he reckoned it was Der Fuehrer’s fault his side lost.
at arse about (n.) under arse, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 126: Jeffrey [was] becoming more and more a pain in the khyber.
at pain in the arse, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 113: [He] strolled into his local jay arthur rank and opened The Cup Account.
at J. Arthur (Rank), n.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 87: The place was as full as a butcher at a picnic.
at full as..., adj.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 19: At no time [...] was even the slightest mention made about Whiffy Maloney’ b.o.
at b.o., n.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 92: The first baddie copped a running short left.
at baddie, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 100: It was very much out of character for Wiesbaden Willie to badmouth another German.
at badmouth, v.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 100: Klaus the Kraut was nothing at all like his bad-mouther.
at badmouther (n.) under badmouth, v.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 47: The Dubbos ran slap bang into what happens to be a traffic phenomenon unique to The Cross.
at slap-bang, adv.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 76: Urgers, ear bashers and the like.
at ear-basher, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 13: Skinny Frank [...] was just back after a break at The Bay.
at Bay, the, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 96: Mick the Musco could’ve settled for speed or big H or even coke.
at big H, n.
[Aus] J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 39: Mick the Muso gave him a bingle on the blower.
at bingle, n.1
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