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[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 28: ‘The boyfriend’s on the payroll. Doing sweet buggerall’.
at bugger all, n.
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 24: ‘You know how I feel [...] like a proper arse’.
at arse, n.
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 44: ‘What beats me is how these Pel duffers would know he was missing’.
at beat, v.
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 17: ‘Steady on, old boot [...] You may have gone troppo’.
at old boot (n.) under boot, n.2
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 39: ‘Where’s the boyo gone?’.
at boyo, n.
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 73: ‘She’s much classier than this bucket suggests’.
at bucket, n.
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 48: ‘For Christsakes, Jack, shoutin or not?’.
at for Christ’s sake!, excl.
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 34: ‘[I]f you think I can do something the cops can’t, you need a mind detox’.
at detox, n.
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 43: ‘You wouldn’t want to picka fight with him [...] four young dicks made that mistake’.
at dick, n.1
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 44: ‘What beats me is how these Pel duffers would know he was missing’.
at duffer, n.2
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 20: ‘Big man’s going to NZed tonight’.
at enzed, n.
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 33: The place would now be infested with pallid techno-geeks and geekesses busily inventing applications.
at geek, n.1
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 21: ‘Bit like the Ghan [...] Only the sheepshaggers here don’t try to take you out with old SAM-7’s’’.
at ’Ghan, n.
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 40: ‘Exposing the girlies to my genius’.
at girlie, n.
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 73: ‘[H]angs around stables, hears all the goss’.
at goss, n.2
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 37: The fan of bills on my floor came into my mind. It had been a long time since the magpie screamed.
at when the magpie screams under magpie, n.1
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 49: ‘[C]ount yourself lucky if you have Maurie’s marbles when you’re eighty-two’.
at marbles, n.4
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 26: ‘Robby’s narked by what happened to his horse’.
at narked, adj.
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 50: ‘Did bloody not [...] hat’s a big porky’.
at porky (pie), n.
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 44: ‘Got any non-craft beer? Perhaps Scandi pisswater?’.
at piss-water (n.) under piss, n.
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 15: Denise Coogan, a brothel queen, had positioned a square whisky glass on the fingers of Joe’s left hand and stamped on it.
at queen, n.
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 21: ‘A syndicate/ They’ve got a quid’.
at quid, n.
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 46: ‘Can’t recollect a stranger offerin me nothing. Not a sausage’.
at sausage, n.
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 44: ‘Got any non-craft beer? Perhaps Scandi pisswater?’.
at Scandy, adj.
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 21: ‘Bit like the Ghan [...] Only the sheepshaggers here don’t try to take you out with old SAM-7’s’’.
at sheep-shagger (n.) under sheep, n.
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 43: ‘Someone’ll be around your shithole office’.
at shithole, adj.
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 25: ‘A bloke offered him a sling to pull the horse’.
at sling, n.1
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 46: ‘A sausage [...] Can’t get a decent snag any more’.
at snags, n.
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 36: ‘They’ve sent their sprogs to bloody Ormond and Trinity’.
at sprat, n.
[Aus] P. Temple ‘High Art’ in The Red Hand 75: ‘The old drunk with the squeezebox’.
at squeeze-box (n.) under squeeze, n.1
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