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[Aus] G. Disher Peace 39: A hint of smartarse in [the words].
at smart-arse, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Peace 17: ‘She’s a complete pain the arse’.
at pain in the arse, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Peace 179: Heading [...] into the teeth of another bollocking.
at ballock, v.2
[Aus] G. Disher Peace 33: ‘[K]nocked off a bookie [...] got way with close to thirty grand’.
at bookie, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Peace 6: The bushwhackery he sometimes encountered.
at bushwhackery (n.) under bushwhack, v.
[Aus] G. Disher Peace 26: The cop had busted her more times than she could count.
at bust, v.1
[Aus] G. Disher Peace 219: ‘The saw was cactus. They’re welcome to it’.
at cactus, adj.
[Aus] G. Disher Peace 7: The kelpie halted, skin and bone, ribs and prick.
at all ribs and dick like a robber’s dog under dick, n.1
[Aus] G. Disher Peace 127: ‘With a bit of luck, tomorrow will be a fizzer’.
at fizzer, n.2
[Aus] G. Disher Peace 27: ‘[I]t’s a good thing my reaction times are above average or you’d have been a goner’.
at goner, n.1
[Aus] G. Disher Peace 33: ‘[K]nocked off a bookie [...] got away with close to thirty grand’.
at grand, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Peace 14: ‘Thanks heaps for brigning Kip home’.
at heap, n.1
[Aus] G. Disher Peace 142: [S]trung-out ice addicts.
at strung out, adj.
[Aus] G. Disher Peace 34: ‘On his way home, he feels a bit peckish’.
at peckish, adj.
[Aus] G. Disher Peace 146: Front-line police against the pencil pushers.
at pencil-pusher, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Peace 119: An old rustbucket Kingswood.
at rust bucket (n.) under rust, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Peace 216: ‘What a shemozzle’.
at shemozzle, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Peace 26: Hirsch later reconstructed the workings of Brenda Flann’s sozzled brain.
at sozzled, adj.
[Aus] G. Disher Peace 16: Grynne was the town stickybeak.
at stickybeak, n.
[Aus] G. Disher Peace 43: Hirsch’s mother, a sly stirrer.
at stirrer, n.2
[Aus] G. Disher Peace 146: ‘Pissed as a fart.’ ‘Trolleyed’.
at trolleyed, adj.
[Aus] G. Disher Peace [ebook] He checked for mobile reception — zilch.
at zilch, n.1
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