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[Aus] Sun. Mail (Adelaide) 25 Sept. 45/5: ‘The Brain’ was sharp as a tack.
at brain, n.1
[Aus] Sun. Mail (Adelaide) 25 Sept. 45/2: This guy Hassick [...] asked me for a ‘brick’ in a stand-over manner.
at brick, n.
[Aus] Sun. Mail (Adelaide) 25 Sept. 47/7: Lash-Man: Violent thief.
at lash-man (n.) under lash, n.1
[Aus] Sun. Mail (Adelaide) 25 Sept. 45/2: I pulled the rod and fired.
at pull, v.
[Aus] Sun. Mail (Adelaide) 25 Sept. 45/2: I planted the rod and ‘went into smoke.’ [...] After a few days I came out of smoke.
at in smoke under smoke, n.
[Aus] Sun. Mail (Adelaide) 25 Sept. 45/5: He gave me a spot — £100 — and told me crime doesn’t pay.
at spot, n.2
[Aus] Sun. Mail (Adelaide) 25 Sept. 45/7: I always sought rhe company of ‘square heads’, men who have had no trouble with the law.
at squarehead, n.1
[Aus] Sun. Mail (Adelaide) 25 Sept. 45/2: This guy Hassick [...] asked me for a ‘brick’ in a stand-over manner.
at standover, n.2
[Aus] Sun. Mail (Adelaide) 25 Sept. 46/2: ‘The Thing’ [i.e a criminal] was a Walkie-Talkie.
at walkie-talkie, n.
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