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Darkest Adelaide 9/2: [H]e thought he could lay me onto a good battler, whose bloke was doing a stretch up at the Stockade [ibid.] 10/2: Her dearest wish was to see Detective Allchurch struck dead for pinching her bloke [Simes:DLSS].at bloke, n.
Darkest Adelaide 9/2: [H]e thought he could lay me onto a good battler, whose bloke was doing a stretch up at the Stockade [ibid.] 10/2: Her dearest wish was to see Detective Allchurch struck dead for pinching her bloke [Simes:DLSS]. Darkest Adelaide 8/2: You see, his tart is too young at the game. She’s a charity tart—gives tick. That’s no good to Gundy’ [Simes:DLSS].at charity girl (n.) under charity, n.
Darkest Adelaide 16/2: An hour or so later the police and the little German returned to the crib, and Roach and Connelly were found in bed with their lady loves [Simes:DLSS].at crib, n.1
Darkest Adelaide 12/2: [He] handed over four sovs. without a murmur. ‘I’ll give them back to you in half a mo,’ said Bludge as he darted into the pub.at half a mo, n.1
Darkest Adelaide 5/2: In fact, we might send round any of our staff — at least tell them to go, but they wouldn’t go worth a cent unless they were accompanied by an armed bodyguard.at not worth a cent, phr.
Darkest Adelaide 35/1: [T]he poor wretch [i.e. a cuckolded husband] does the rope-stretching act or is put down below for a number of years.at act, n.
Darkest Adelaide 6/1: An Adelaide detective pointed him out to me as a specially choice animal of his breed, and I marked him for my victim.at animal, n.1
Darkest Adelaide 9/1: [H]e didn’t care a pink benediction whether they were green or old hands — he’d bally soon break them in.at bally, adv.
Darkest Adelaide 30/1: She was simply driven out on to the streets by the force of circumstances [...] She tells me that when she first started out to battle she found a large clientele amongst clerks in offices.at battle, v.
Darkest Adelaide 8/2: I told him I would not mind taking on a tart myself—an extra good battler preferred [ibid.] 20/2: Now, there are any number of these old battlers tracking around [...] they are shockingly diseased, and are a menace to youths who are out after worldly experience, and won’t be happy till they get it.at battler (n.) under battle, v.
Darkest Adelaide 24/2: The seasoned battler, seeking round for whom she may devour, be it old or young, is almost every bit as dangerous as the vile chicken-chasing roue.at battler (n.) under battle, v.
Darkest Adelaide 35/1: [T]he poor wretch [i.e. a cuckolded husband] does the rope-stretching act or is put down below for a number of years.at down below, n.2
Darkest Adelaide 80/1: [‘The Church’] wear an oily, unctuous expression calculated to deceive the most uncompromising cynic extant, they smoodge for “ ‘bickeys,’ tea and cake, beer and wine, socks and slippers, and everything thev can get for nothing.at bikkie, n.
Darkest Adelaide 6/2: How did I like Adelaide? Liked It so blanky well that I had a blanky good mind to pitch my blanky tent right down in the blanky viilage. A lovely blanky little town is Adelaide, said I, and a lovely blanky lot of mugs it contained.at blanky, adj.
Darkest Adelaide 4/1: Like a lot of little boys. / M.L.A.’s and M.L.C.’s gets / [...] / Lets the country go to blazes, / So they all cop on the pelf.at go to blazes (v.) under blazes, n.
Darkest Adelaide 84/2: Dead Broke [a writer] made the common bloomer of imagining that the Salvation Army ran its doss-house on charitable lines. No bigger mistake was ever made.at bloomer, n.2
Darkest Adelaide 2/1: [T]hat bludging has been reduced to a fine art in Adelaide cannot be gainsaid. Here the bludger is an institution.at bludging (n.) under bludge, v.
Darkest Adelaide 32/2: Yet these girls would chuck a blue fit if you called them prostitutes.at blue fit (n.) under blue, adj.1
Darkest Adelaide 55/2: Certainly Arthur Rees poses as the boss amateur detective in this or any other universe, but we’ve only his word for it.at boss, adj.
Darkest Adelaide 69/2: Bluff and bounce won’t wash with the Chow and the Jap, who are now out to let the world see that they are not the human worms Europeans have been pleased to consider them.at bounce, n.1
Darkest Adelaide 8/1: ‘Now, th’ bloke’s spieler and ’is cobber’s piece o’ goods weren’t on dookin’ terms; so while ’e (th’ cobber) ’ad to chat ’is (the cobber’s) bride, ’e (th’ cobber) jerked into tootling to ’s (th’ bloke’s) filly’.at bride, n.
Darkest Adelaide 57/2: [I] was [...] accosted by a little girl (whom, [...] I wou'd be prepared to swear was not more than twelve years of age) in the following terms: — ‘Good night, ducky. Do you want a bride?’.at bride, n.
Darkest Adelaide 70/2: The other day [...] a white shoeblack was seen cleaning the boots of a buck Afghan! at buck, adj.1
Darkest Adelaide 71/1: The other Saturday night one of the finest women on view [...] was a big blonde ...] Her companion was a big bull Afghan, a fine lusty animal, who, in the pride of possession of the creature by his side trod the pavement with the firm bearing of a conqueror [...] But he was a nigger and no fit mate for a white woman.at bull, adj.1
Darkest Adelaide 79/1: The second stage [of parasite] is the beer-sparrer or bummer, a term applied to an animal generally discovered in a bar, and whose noted characteristics are an affable tongue, a familiar manner and an unlimited supply of old jokes .at bummer, n.2
Darkest Adelaide 8/1: I had a newspaper in my hand, and accepting,, an invitation to ‘bung my frame’ down on the seat.at bung, v.1
Darkest Adelaide 9/1: They simply must have one man whom they can cling to and love and work for. No doubt, the fact of doing business with so many strange men, draws out this trait in the prostitute more strongly than in the ordinary female.at business, n.
Darkest Adelaide 52/1: ‘l'm past the business now, [...] But last night, [...] 1 thought what a fine night [sic] chance there was for an enterprising young fellow to crack a jolly good crib’ .at business, n.
Darkest Adelaide 73/2: At breakfast next morning I recounted my experiences with the insipid lah-de dah johnny cake.at johnny cake, n.
Darkest Adelaide 16/2: [The] German was foolish enough to pay a golden sovereign in advance, and then his cake was dough.at cake is dough under cake, n.1
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