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Intractable - Life inside Australia’s First Super-max Prison choose

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[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] Only six months had passed since I had attacked the two screws [...] I would be as popular as a pork chop in a synagogue.
at as popular as a pork chop at a Jewish wedding under pork chop at a Jewish wedding, phr.
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] The aggro was quickly brought under control.
at aggro, n.
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] [H]e became delusionary on angel dust (phencyclidine – a depressant and hallucinogen) and heard the voice of his son telling him to kill seven people.
at angel dust, n.
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] The mudguard arced right up.
at arc up, v.
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] A couple of the heavies and strong-arm boys.
at strong-arm man (n.) under strong-arm, adj.
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] [T]hey were crawling up the boss’s ass to get a pay rise.
at arse crawl (v.) under arse, n.
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] Fred was on the ass end of his life sentence and ready for deportation.
at arse-end, n.
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] It was as cold as a frog’s tog outside.
at ...a polar bear’s behind under cold as..., adj.
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] ‘Bend over and spread the cheeks of your ass’.
at ass, n.
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] My pain-fogged brain could faintly decipher frenzied screams of ‘cunt’, ‘bastard’, ‘asshole’, ‘maggot’.
at asshole, n.
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] After five attempts trying to position ourselves at the Governor’s office while a truck entered or exited the jail we had to give it away.
at give it away, v.
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] After the Middle East campaign the old man backed up to fight in New Guinea.
at back up, v.2
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] I backed up to fight Jimmy the next night.
at back up, v.2
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] ‘Back up, mate. You’ve got to back up on each one of them. Take them out altogether or take them out one at a time’.
at back up, v.3
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] ‘I can’t see him bluing. You aren’t bagging the jails’.
at bag, v.
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] [A] screw saw his legs protruding and bailed them up before they reached the ground.
at bail up, v.
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] McCafferty bailed out and went on protection.
at bail out, v.
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] In their eyes I was just a filthy rotten crim anyway. And civilly dead to boot. The perfect target for a good bake.
at bake, n.2
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] The screws had a ball. The more Bill screamed the more the screws flogged him to shut him up.
at have a ball (v.) under ball, n.3
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] Ray wasn’t too keen to do more time – especially in the banana State.
at Bananaland (n.) under banana, n.
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] When the fight ended we both had bark off us and torn school uniforms.
at bark, n.1
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] Tobacco barons reigned in each wing of the prison.
at baron, n.
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] He was one of the old bashers who [...] became notorious for brandishing a loaded shotgun at prisoners during the 1970 Bathurst strike.
at basher, n.1
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable 393: Batted [sic] masturbation.
at bat, n.2
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] One day ‘Mad Dog’ snuck up behind Schneidas in the exercise yard and batted him (attacked him with a wooden tennis paddle).
at bat, v.
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] [A] couple of west coast crims tried their luck in Sydney and eventually hit the Bay.
at Bay, the, n.
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] [A]a sensationalised media beat-up at its best.
at beat-up, n.
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] [a beating administered to all new prisoners on arrival] I [...] remembered what other tracs had told me about the reception biff [...] Never yell or make a noise during the flogging.
at biff, n.1
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] [T]he big-noting jacks couldn’t keep it a secret.
at big-note, v.
[Aus] B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] One month later he escaped from the Black Maria (a police escort van).
at Black Maria, n.
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