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The Opium Smugglers choose

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[Aus] I.L. Idriess Opium Smugglers 252: Here, take a bo-peep at this!
at bo-peep, n.
[Aus] I.L Idriess Opium Smugglers 174: He smacked it top and bottom – a bonzer damper, a dinkum ‘cartwheel’.
at cartwheel, n.1
[Aus] I.L. Idriess Opium Smugglers 260: I bet that Jap skipper is a nigger-driver.
at nigger-driver, n.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess Opium Smugglers 233: Remember that pie-faced Jap skipper?
at pie-faced, adj.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess Opium Smugglers 209: He’s got us fried to a frazzle [...] He’s beaten us all along the line.
at frazzle, n.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess Opium Smugglers 2: ‘I’ll bet it’s not his horse he’s riding,’ said Dick. [...] ‘He’s lifted it from some cattlemen up north.’.
at lift, v.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess Opium Smugglers 214: His sit-me-down was streaked with weals.
at sit-me-down (n.) under sit, v.
[Aus] I.L. Idriess Opium Smugglers 242: ‘Heavens! Thousands of pounds?’ ‘It’s worth £20 and more a tin,’ said Dick. ‘A tin only about the size of a mustard tin.’.
at tin, n.
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