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[NZ] (con. 1930s) N. Hilliard Power of Joy 230: Flogging a bike to bunk to the flicks.
at bunk, v.1
[NZ] (con. 1940s) N. Hilliard Power of Joy 204: ‘Try a full toss!’ someone shouted. Bock: ‘Zat!’ ‘A dabster, Terry.’.
at dabster, n.
[NZ] (con. 1930s) N. Hilliard Power of Joy 213: ‘Is that all your dolie old man can afford, thirty bob?’ He’d tried to explain that his father was working but it hadn’t made any difference. To the well-off it seemed that all who worked for wages were dolies or red-feds.
at dolie, n.
[NZ] (con. 1940s) N. Hilliard Power of Joy 223: ‘Ten dongs!’ [...] The usual punishment was six dongs but this was a serious case.
at dong, n.2
[NZ] (con. 1940s) N. Hilliard Power of Joy 312: Got a gasp on you?
at gasper, n.
[NZ] (con. 1930s) N. Hilliard Power of Joy 213: To the well-off it seemed that all who worked for wages were dolies or red-feds.
at red fed (n.) under red, adj.
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