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Puberty Blues choose

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[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 113: Their mother’s Mandrax, Valium or an acid trip at four dollars a pill.
at acid trip (n.) under acid, n.1
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 88: Garry didn’t hassle me. I’d say no and he’d shut up. But as I didn’t want to be a tight-arse it couldn’t go on like this forever.
at tight-arse, n.
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 24: If you waited too long you were a tight-arsed prickteaser.
at tight-arsed, adj.
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 48: Bruce wants me to meet him down the creek this arvo.
at arvo, n.
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 29: Boys’ boards came before everything. It was waves, then babes.
at babe, n.
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 118: Yews chicks are bent [...] fuckin’ bent.
at bent, adj.
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 63: When there were no boys that we fancied [...] we bitched about our girlfriends.
at bitch, v.
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 48: Phew. The class sat back for a bludge. Once we got him going he’d talk away for at least half the period.
at bludge, n.
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 89: We bought our ten cents worth of lollies. That was our daily bludge from Mr Knight.
at bludge, n.
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 102: ‘Ey! Don’t bogart it Johnno.’ Johnno was a hog.
at bogart, v.
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 97: If we didn’t bong it [marijuana] we smoked it in a joint.
at bong, v.2
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 97: We smoked the dope in a bong. This is a kind of peace pipe made from a milk bottle with two bits of garden hose stuck in the neck. You stuffed one hose with marijuana, lit it and dragged furiously on the other.
at bong, n.1
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 53: Bruce’s father was a brickie’s labourer.
at brickie, n.
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 20: Tracey, Kim and I stuffed our used cake-wrappers into the bubbler and gave the drink machine a kick.
at bubbler, n.2
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 115: Look at Lorraine Peck. The bullshit artist [...] She doesn’t hit up you know. She just scratches herself and coughs, the rag.
at bullshit artist (n.) under bullshit, n.
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 30: ‘Oh, Johnno, lend us ya . . .’ ‘Bite ya bum.’.
at bite your bum! (excl.) under bum, n.1
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 2: We were also busting to go to the dunny, but that was too rude for girls.
at busting, adj.2
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 51: ‘What happened?’ ‘He cracked a mental.’.
at crack, v.4
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 99: I wanted something new and he’d been cracking on to me.
at crack on, v.2
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 9: Here yar. Have me lunch. Dead-set, I’m not hungry.
at dead set, phr.
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 84: Oh deadset. I’m not gunna walk all the way.
at dead set, phr.
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 16: ‘Didja dob?’ ‘On you? . . . No way.’.
at dob (in), v.
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 74: The boys could screw as many molls as they liked [...] No one cared very much about that. We all thought they were dogs.
at dog, n.2
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 75: Dog-eat-dog — pronounced ‘doggy-dooog’ which means a daggy girl — a girl wearing too much make-up, a girl who’s too fat or with scraggy hair or just plain ugly.
at dog-eat-dog (n.) under dog, n.2
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 5: It was Darren Peters — the top surfing spunk of sixth form [...] ‘Oh Gord. What a doll’.
at doll, n.1
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 11: Give us a drag Sue.
at drag, n.1
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 4: But in the end, I dropped Greg. He was a rotten surfer.
at drop, v.1
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 46: ‘Sprung!’ cried Jeff Basin, the local dubbo.
at dubbo, n.
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 2: We were also busting to go to the dunny, but that was too rude for girls.
at dunny, n.2
[Aus] Lette & Carey Puberty Blues 76: The boys thought she looked like an easy lay.
at easy lay (n.) under easy, adj.
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