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Doing Time: The Prison Experience choose

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[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time 186: air raid: to talk in an obsessive, overbearing, or loud-mouthed way.
at air raid, v.
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time 187: bottle: courage; for example, ‘he lost his bottle’.
at bottle (and glass), n.
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time app. C 230: Then you get a short-arm inspection, the whole thing’s completely dehumanizing.
at short-arm inspection (n.) under short arm, n.
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time app. C 239: He got the greatest armchair ride I’ve ever seen in the place. He only served about eighteen months in jail.
at armchair ride, n.
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time 139: And if you do have a fight you’ve got to strike swiftly [...] because if he has brought some mates with him as back-ups very likely you will also have to fight them.
at back up, n.2
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time 186: back door: to visit a prisoner’s wife or girlfriend on the outside and take advantage of her, especially sexually.
at backdoor, v.2
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time 44: But worse than that you can bang up and can be heard and told to wait until morning.
at bang up, v.2
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time 96: You don’t interfere [...] if he’s bashing up somebody you don’t step in, that’s his business.
at bash up (v.) under bash, v.
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time app. C 219: Ever since I was a kid I’ve been bashed and thumped by authority [...] So I accept the bash because that’s the way it is.
at bash, n.1
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time 106: Now, if I come into my cell and found somebody peter thieving I would have to bash him.
at bash, v.
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time 190: go to bat: to help or support someone.
at go to bat for (v.) under bat, v.
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time 111: Once you get out [of prison] you’ve got to battle to get money and get on your feet and they can be real problems.
at battle, v.
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time 186: beat it: to defeat an indictment; to be found not guilty.
at beat, v.
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time 186: belt off: go away, leave me alone.
at belt, v.
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time 186: bent: corrupt, dishonest.
at bent, adj.
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time app. C 243: I don’t like people [...] that get around acting like gangsters, big-noting themselves, and trying to be big-time.
at big-note, v.
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time app. C 243: I don’t like people [...] that get around acting like gangsters, big-noting themselves, and trying to be big-time.
at big-time, adj.
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time 193: old bill: police.
at Old Bill, n.
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time 29: Each prisoner is assigned to a job when he is classified. [...] Billets: General cleaning of the prison. Some serve out the meals.
at billet, n.
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time 186: bird: prison, or a term in prison; for example, ‘doing bird’.
at bird, n.4
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time 187: blue bit: ten dollars ($10).
at blue bit (n.) under bit, n.1
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time 197: Blue bit ten dollars ($10.00).
at blue bit (n.) under bit, n.1
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time 187: blonk, a fool or dill.
at blonk, n.
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time 187: bombed out: broken down, very tired.
at bombed out, adj.1
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time 191: jack: [...] ‘the jack’ refers to a venereal disease.
at jack (in the box), n.
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time 187: brasko: toilet, lavatory.
at brasco, n.
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time 187: bread: money.
at bread, n.1
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time 74: [S]ometimes they raid the workshops and get a few brews and things like that, you know, they’re incidental little things, brews don’t do any harm.
at brew, n.
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time 132: A few years ago there was a crim killed when some bricks from a building construction in the jail fell on him. Well, the joke that went around was ‘did you hear about the who got a brick and couldn’t handle it?’.
at brick, n.
[Aus] B. Ellem Doing Time 187: brief: solicitor or barrister.
at brief, n.1
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