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More Snatches and Lays choose

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[Aus] (con. 1940s–60s) Hogbotel & ffuckes ‘The Old Maid’ in More Snatches and Lays 87: She didn’t give a drat for the old tom cat.
at not give a damn, v.
[Aus] (con. 1940s–60s) Hogbotel & ffuckes ‘Bell-bottom Trousers’ in More Snatches and Lays 66: The forty-second Army Corps came in to paint the town. [...] They busted every maidenhead, and staggered out again.
at bust, v.1
[Aus] (con. 1940s–60s) Hogbotel & ffuckes ‘Sammy Hall’ in More Snatches and Lays 39: My name is Sammy Hall, and I’ve only got one ball – / But it’s better than none at all / Damn your eyes, blast your soul.
at damn (someone’s) eyes! (excl.) under damn, v.
[Aus] (con. 1940s–60s) Hogbotel & ffuckes ‘Three Prominent Bastards’ in More Snatches and Lays 72: And she liked my father’s fiddling – and I am the result.
at fiddle, v.1
[Aus] (con. 1940s–60s) Hogbotel & ffuckes ‘Christopher Robin’ in More Snatches and Lays 87: Little boy sits on the lavatory pan / Gently caressing his little old man.
at old man, n.
[Aus] (con. 1940s–60s) Hogbotel & ffuckes ‘The Hills of Assam’ in More Snatches and Lays 86: I’ve played soixante-neuf on Parisian turf.
at sixty-nine, n.
[Aus] (con. 1940s–60s) Hogbotel & ffuckes ‘Please Don’t Burn Our Shithouse Down’ in More Snatches and Lays 70: Little Bill has got the runs.
at runs, the, n.
[Aus] (con. 1940s–60s) Hogbotel & ffuckes ‘Lulu’ in More Snatches and Lays 65: Some girls work in factories / And some girls work in stores; / But Lulu works in a dockside shop / With forty other whores.
at shop, n.1
[Aus] (con. 1940s–60s) Hogbotel & ffuckes ‘Your Spooning Days Are Over’ in More Snatches and Lays 85: Your spooning days are over, / Your pilot light is out, / What used to be your sex appeal / Is now your water spout.
at spooning, n.
[Aus] (con. 1940s–60s) ‘Fanny Bay’ in Hogbotel & ffuckes More Snatches and Lays 50: But what will cost you twenty quid in Lower Crown Street, / Will cost you half a zac in Fanny Bay.
at zac, n.
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