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Top Fellas The Story of Melbourne’s Sharpie Cult choose

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[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 17/1: [of fashionable dressers] An up-to-date wardrobe separated the aces from the offal.
at ace, n.
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 58/2: [The books] have sweet Fatty Arbuckle to do with your genuine article skinheads.
at sweet Fanny Adams, n.
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 57/1: It was on, the biggest knock down drag-out in the history of Oz rock concert violence.
at knock-down (and) drag-out, n.
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 21/2: An ‘Apprentice’ was [...] a bloke that just couldn’t make the grade, or alternatively just a novice.
at apprentice, n.
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 61/1: One mob bossed Flinders Street from arsehole to breakfast time.
at from arsehole to breakfast (time) under arsehole, n.
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 22/1: They were rough as guts working class.
at ...guts under rough as..., adj.
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 63/2: [Bruce Lee] could really go in the arse-kicking department.
at kick ass, v.
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 62/1: A couple of babes walked past.
at babe, n.
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 48/2: Baggies were high waisted and very flared, so flared that they’d cover the whole of your shoe.
at baggies, n.
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 49/2: Girls wore them [i.e. T-shirts] so itsy-bitsy and tight around the balcony that the [stick-on] letters would inevitably [...] fall off.
at balcony, n.
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 85/2: The giddy limit of balls-out no-brow rock n’ roll.
at balls out (adv.) under balls, n.
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 10/2: As nobody else was stepping up to bat, I decided to have a bash myself.
at bash, n.1
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 24/1: Belting long-hairs was just a nasty lark.
at belt, v.
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 24/1: Rocker/sharp biff sessions were often photo finishes.
at biff session (n.) under biff, n.1
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 58/2: Skinheads were the big hubbub back in Blighty.
at Blighty, n.
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 54/2: Skinhead was [...] first replaced by the suedehead, then the smooth/bootboy.
at boot boy (n.) under boot, n.2
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 57/1: It was [...] the biggest knock down drag-out in the history of Oz rock concert violence [...] one thousand people are supposed to have been bopping into each other.
at bop, v.
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 61/1: One mob bossed Flinders Street from arsehole to breakfast time.
at boss, v.
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 20/2: There were definite shades of the ‘Larrikin’ in the sharps’ get-up and roaring-boy antics.
at roaring boy, n.
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 20/2: There were definite shades of the ‘Larrikin’ in the sharps’ get-up and roaring-boy antics.
at roaring boy, n.
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 59/2: Too many five-star bruisers [...] classed themselves as sharpies.
at bruiser, n.
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 21/1: You had to be [...] hell on the dance floor, cocksure with the brush, and dapper as all get out.
at brush, n.4
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 2/1: Occasionally one of the gang-busters found himself in the worng place [...] and got his spuds cooked but good.
at but good, phr.
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 60/1: Coffee bars [...] known in sharp parlance as wog shops, spag bars or chat ’n’ spews (the latter because most had names like ‘Sit n’ Chat’ or ‘Chat n’ Chew’).
at chat n’ spew (n.) under chat, v.1
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 21/1: The lowest of the low were called ‘Chats’. [...] In sharp lingo it meant a paraiah, in for a hiding.
at chats, n.2
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 72/2: Which as a fan, and as a Aussie, cheeses me off.
at cheese off, v.1
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 19/1: ‘Chisels’, kind of like Points but with the tips chopped off.
at chisel, n.
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 17/2: The ciggy pack pocket half way down the side of your leg.
at ciggie, n.
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 45/2: Originally sharps bought their Connys off the shelf, but pretty soon kids started brigning i their own designs, sparing no expense to wow their mates.
at Conny, n.
[Aus] (con. 1960s-70s) T. Taylor Top Fellas 62/1: One Friday night we were dagging around, nothing to do.
at dag around (v.) under dag, n.2
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