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The Last of the High Kings choose

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[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 91: ‘The Yank’s a bit of all right,’ Hopper said. ‘Tell us, are ye burying the baldy fella then?’.
at bit of all right, a, phr.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 71: A frog-faced boy with a thick Afro hairstyle.
at afro, n.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 120: Everyone regarded Cyril as a pain in the hole.
at pain in the arse, n.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 83: ‘The Yank’s a bit of all right,’ Hopper said. ‘Tell us, are ye burying the baldy fella then?’.
at bury the baldy fella (v.) under bald, adj.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 108: The master electrician said that only a maniac could have made such a balls of things.
at balls, v.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 88: Just do your best [...] but make a balls of things and I’ll fracture your skull.
at make a balls of (v.) under balls-up, n.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 119: I blame the Brits. They banjaxed our transport service with their imperialism.
at banjax, v.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 53: Shut your face, barge.
at barge, n.2
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 13: You’re chicken, she barged.
at barge, v.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 13: You’re chicken, she barged.
at chicken, adj.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 153: Gerty [...] panicked and yanked the glass off the table into her lap. Oh, I’m just such a clod, really I am.
at clod, n.1
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 56: Then he clouted him across the face with an open palm.
at clout, v.1
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 49: ‘Doggoned varmint,’ he said as he spat teeth and blood onto the floor.
at doggone, adj.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 17: Oh feck off out of here, Da said.
at feck, v.2
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 10: Words like Feckit, just the way Da said it.
at feck!, excl.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 115: He and Nelson and Hopper were planning a massive bonfire with loads of booze and joints as long as your arm; every fine thing on the hill would be invited.
at fine thing (n.) under fine, adj.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 54: ‘Aw, flip it,’ Dawn said.
at flip, v.3
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 108: It was pure luck that nobody had been fried.
at fry, v.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 90: Fuck this for a game of cowboys.
at fuck that/this for a game of soldiers! (excl.) under fuck, v.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 84: He smiled and thought about envelopes packed with greenbacks.
at greenback, n.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 121: He’s a gronk [...] Nelson Fitzgerald does not hang around with gronks.
at gronk, n.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 119: They banjaxed our transport service with their imperialism [...] and hoity-toity ways.
at hoity-toity, adj.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 27: I got a feel, Nelson boasted. Well, I got me hole, little Cyril McLean bragged.
at get one’s hole (v.) under hole, n.1
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 85: Erin’s a pain [...] but that Rainbow is like something out of TheExorcist.
at pain (in the neck), n.1
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 137: Not for nothing had sheriff Bart Wyatt learned to fight dirty during the Injun Wars of ’76.
at Injun, adj.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 149: He had on his best jeans, new white shirt, black slimjim tie.
at Slim Jim, n.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 92: The ball cannoned off the goal-keeper’s head with a ‘ker-ump’.
at ker-, pfx
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 93: Vinnie loafed Frankie on the nose and Frankie staggered back.
at loaf, v.2
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 101: The dog’s gone mental. [Ibid.] 104: The chicks will go mental for us.
at go mental (v.) under mental, adj.
[Ire] F. Mac Anna Last of the High Kings 103: He was always asking girls if they wanted to go outside for a bit of ‘nicky-hooky’. The girls always turned him down.
at nookie, n.
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