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[Aus] D. Ireland Chantic Bird 148: She big-eyed him and went on slobbering.
at big eye, v.
[Aus] D. Ireland Chantic Bird 61: A brown bomber—a parking cop—gave me a fright.
at brown bomber, n.1
[Aus] D. Ireland Chantic Bird 179: I thought they might have signalled a passing prowl car.
at prowl car, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Chantic Bird 161: The big Chev floated over the bitumen, in and out of the traffic.
at Chevvy, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Chantic Bird 114: You’ve got to watch the citizens. They’ll call copper if you look sideways at them.
at call copper (v.) under copper, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Chantic Bird 149: Girls are great dobbers.
at dobber, n.1
[Aus] D. Ireland Chantic Bird 120: I used to get some goolies ready, then scare them.
at goolie, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Chantic Bird 29: They’d bottle you for two bob if they thought you were half shot.
at half-shot, adj.
[Aus] D. Ireland Chantic Bird 61: The sound of a hellicking great rusty bulldozer.
at hellicking, adj.
[Aus] D. Ireland Chantic Bird 178: A kid on a bike, lairising, leaned right over in front of me.
at lairize, v.
[Aus] D. Ireland Chantic Bird 59: She only took half an hour over that bath, with me up there perving like mad.
at perv, v.
[Aus] D. Ireland Chantic Bird 164: A heap of reggo plates.
at reggo, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Chantic Bird 29: They’d bottle you for two bob if they thought you were half shot.
at half shot (adj.) under shot, adj.
[Aus] D. Ireland Chantic Bird 27: Whenever I needed a few hours of good slogging I’d take a spade [...] and raise a sweat pushing dirt back in holes.
at slogging, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Chantic Bird 155: If there’s one thing that gives me the tom-tits it’s people talking to you.
at give someone the tom-tits (v.) under tom-tits, n.
[Aus] D. Ireland Chantic Bird 155: She was edging me to the door. ‘You’re trying to unload me,’ I said.
at unload, v.
[Aus] D. Ireland Chantic Bird 59: She made noises and tears appeared right away. ‘Don’t get upcited, Chris.’.
at upcited, adj.
[Aus] D. Ireland Chantic Bird 59: You — you wrong number!
at wrong number (n.) under wrong, adj.
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