1989 J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 98: Zack [...] demanded to know about ‘the street arab and future dole-bludger’ that wolfed away at their food?at dole-bludger, n.
1989 J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard n.p.: [...] insipid stock, fake tomatoes from Queensland, an absence of veal knuckles, Chateau Cardboard wine and pseudo-Cognac.at chateau cardboard, n.
1989 J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 131: He’d taken quite a liking to the seven carrot-polled boys.at carrot-polled (adj.) under carrot, n.
1989 J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 70: She was a top woman, and drank top shelf! I coughed up for a case of 1978 Grange.at cough up, v.
1989 J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 62: The wines had been selected [...] These did not warm their cruppers so much as the hocks.at crupper, n.
1989 J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 99: Houn le Pine and his agent [...] would be laughing, as much about the dudding by a country bumpkin of a city slicker as anything else.at dud, v.2
1989 J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 156: Penny Goriot hopped in, rubbing her feelers, hoping that I’d order a bottle of La Tâche.at feeler, n.2
1989 J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 61: He apologized for doing a moonlight flit.at moonlight flit, n.
1989 J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 58: Would Madam like to have a geek at her first stump-jump plough?at geek, n.2
1989 J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 197: In no time at all she was under the table, jerking at my shrivelled gherkin.at jerk one’s gherkin (v.) under gherkin, n.
1989 J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 144: Get out of my life, Goldilocks. I’ve had a gutful of men, right up to the crop.at gutsful, n.
1989 J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 157: Ngo hammered the Riley from Queenscliff to Geelong.at hammer, v.1
1989 J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 156: Squeaky McLean entered and asked about that ‘ace little sawn-off, Herbie, and that lairy Chink, F. X. Ngo’.at lairy, adj.
1989 J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 160: These saucy workingclass lasses [...] were soon addressing one particular umpire as a ‘white maggot’.at maggot, n.
1989 J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 146: She moped off looking like a bedraggled and stunted red setter.at mope, v.
1989 J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 75: Penelope wished to know whether Padlock fitted the description of ‘an ocker’.at ocker, n.
1989 J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 64: I polished off a cockle-warming and Shiraz-laden Crozes Hermitage.at polish off, v.
1989 J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 156: Squeaky McLean entered and asked about that ‘ace little sawn-off, Herbie’.at sawed-off, n.
1989 J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 144: What’s wrong with that stuck-up Pommy tart?at pommie, adj.
1989 J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 36: I loved your pink chubby little body [...] I even loved your poo.at poo, n.1
1989 J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 70: She was a top woman, and drank top shelf! I coughed up for a case of 1978 Grange.at top-shelf, adj.
1989 J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 22: The vintage of 1983 is proving to be a spanking one.at spanking, adj.
1989 J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 87: The Adelaide bore [...] espousing the causes of the modern woman, insisted that the grant would ‘not be suss’ as long as the donkey were female.at sussed, adj.
1989 J. Hibberd Memoirs of an Old Bastard 152: I doubt there can be a more unsavoury mode of arousal from sleep than at the hand of a Melbourne wowser, bore, and creeping Jesus.at wowser, n.1