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The Big Whatever choose

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[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 13: A bloke with an afro, hunched over a keyboard.
at afro, n.
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 22: The smaller one saw me staring. ‘What’s up your arse, grandpa?’.
at up someone’s arse/ass under arse, n.
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 22: Two bikeys with bandit moustaches.
at bikie, n.
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 25: One more sandwich bag with a dozen buddha sticks.
at buddha sticks (n.) under buddha, n.
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 25: A sandwich bag of double-O caps, with sparkly white powder in them [...] cocaine.
at cap, n.4
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 23: Why would mellow cat Mel Parker own a fucking roscoe?
at cat, n.5
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 25: People weren’t so interested in powder drugs, especially coke.
at coke, n.1
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 13: I was out of my goddamned tree, dig?
at dig?, phr.
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 26: I dropped a mandy to ease the jingle-jangle.
at drop, v.6
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 23: The bikey [...] clocked the crazy tableau and said, ‘The fuck’s this?’.
at what the fuck...?, phr.
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 12: [of cannabis] [I] slipped him enough gear for a smoke or two.
at gear, n.
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 24: ‘Jesus fucking shit! [...] This [i.e. a drug robbery] is so heavy’.
at heavy, adj.
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 18: He wasn’t holding now [...] but something might be on a little later.
at hold, v.1
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 20: Cathy was still hooked up with Johnny.
at hooked up, adj.1
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 13: [of a cab-driver] I ran hot for a while on street hails, then it went quiet.
at run hot (v.) under hot, adj.
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 11: A Legion cab [...] hung an illegal U-turn].
at hang a U-ie (v.) under U-ie, n.
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 26: I dropped a mandy to ease the jingle-jangle.
at jingle-jangle, n.
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 25: Sherlock Mel gerried: he was just back from a voyage.
at jerry, v.
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 27: I had the kid put a few bucks worth of juice in the tank.
at juice, n.1
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 24: There were three fat rolls of twenties in his kick.
at kick, n.4
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 13: Johnny Malone, alias Johnny the Lurk Merchant.
at lurk merchant (n.) under lurk, n.
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 26: A bottle of mandies — that Mandrax to you sticlers for accuracy or what the R&R blokes called Quaaludes.
at mandy, n.
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 23: Why would mellow cat Mel Parker own a fucking roscoe?
at mellow, adj.
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 15: Negative conditioning [...] plus a Nam skag habit.
at Nam, n.
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 27: Then Cathy and this guy had this huge pash session.
at pash show (n.) under pash, n.
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 21: She [...] brought out a pill bottle, tipped out four purple hearts.
at purple hearts (n.) under purple, adj.
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 23: Why would mellow cat Mel Parker own a fucking roscoe?
at roscoe, n.
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 14: My sad-sack partner Johnny.
at sad sack, n.
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 15: Negative conditioning [...] plus a Nam skag habit.
at scag, n.2
[Aus] P. Doyle (con. 1969-1973) Big Whatever 27: Then the sparkle powder was broken out, and mandies for good measure.
at sparkle powder (n.) under sparkle, n.
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