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[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Cutler 32: [S]he called him A, or sometimes A-plus, or sometimes A-hole if she was angry.
at a-hole, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Cutler 37: ‘Whelan said you tried to talk Bevan out of leaving the Monterey.’ ‘Of course I did, Aussie’.
at Aussie, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Cutler 13: [A] waterproof puffer jacket, a heavy woollen beanie and a pair of polarised sunglasses.
at beanie, n.1
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Cutler 15: [A] badly painted hotbox overlooking a sleepy port.
at hot box, n.2
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Cutler 116: He wanted to get a bug [...] in the [ship’s] bridge as quickly as possible.
at bug, n.4
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Cutler 9: They were killing the man they knew as Hennessy, a smurf who cleaned their cash and made it real.
at clean, v.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Cutler 19: ‘I like a bit of coke, but who doesn’t?
at coke, n.1
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Cutler 36: ‘Where did you do time? You’re an ex-con. I can pick it from a mile away’.
at ex-con, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Cutler 15: [A]n industry plagued with organised crime, ruthless multinational cartels, cowboy operators [etc].
at cowboy, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Cutler 26: ‘You’re in my room. I’ll hot-bunk with Dad until we find your assigned ship’.
at hot-bunk (v.) under hot, adj.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Cutler 61: ‘The three guys in Indo were just smugglers’.
at Indo, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Cutler 13: Whelan had told him to buy large at the Australian duty-free, and so Cutler had bought his allowance of litre bottles of Johnny Walker Red Label, and six cartons of cigarettes.
at large, adv.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Cutler 18: [M]utinous cretins, on the meth, or coming off the meth.
at meth, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Cutler 58: The captain necked his drink and topped them all up again.
at neck, v.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Cutler 13: [A]n inexperienced but enthusiastic fisheries nerd, embarking on his first employment aboard a commercial vessel.
at nerd, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Cutler 18: [M]utinous cretins, on the meth, or coming off the meth.
at on, prep.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Cutler 10: [S]o emaciated and strung-out that he wasn’t strong enough to handle his giant Harley.
at strung out, adj.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Cutler 17: [He] removed the Glock pistol that he held like a piece of evidence – with a pinkie finger.
at pinkie, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Cutler 65: ‘[W]e’ve crossed the equator, which means as a rookie you need to take a dunking’.
at rookie, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Cutler 21: O’Reardon, an old salt who’d fished the Pacific for decades.
at salt, n.2
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Cutler 9: They were killing the man they knew as Hennessy, a smurf who cleaned their cash and made it real.
at smurf, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Cutler 17: Whelan’s socials were full of him mountain biking and road racing, scuba diving and spearfishing.
at socials, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Cutler 115: There were a few stick mags underneath a pile of manga.
at stick book (n.) under stick, n.
[Aus] D. Whish-Wilson Cutler 36: ‘Where did you do time? You’re an ex-con. I can pick it from a mile away’.
at do time (v.) under time, n.
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