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The Queenslander choose

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[Aus] Queenslander (Qld) 18 Mar. 44/2: A ‘BITZA’ RADIO SET. Mr. Meredith, of Liverpool, England, has built a radio set out of old tins, a bottle a clothes peg, a cigarette, and some razor blades—and it works!
at bitza, n.
[Aus] R. Macklin Queenslander 269: She’s a bobby dazzler, isn’t she.
at bobby-dazzler, n.1
[Aus] R. Macklin Queenslander 274: Come off it.
at come off it! (excl.) under come off, v.1
[Aus] R. Macklin Queenslander 248: He found his wife in the crush of the lobby.
at crush, n.1
[Aus] R. Macklin Queenslander 33: He hadn’t used a frenchy either.
at frenchie, n.
[Aus] R. Macklin Queenslander 264: I’m busting a gut trying to get this play finished.
at bust a gut (v.) under gut, n.
[Aus] R. Macklin Queenslander 10: ‘Fuck her, of course.’ ‘Do you mean all three at once or one at a time?’ ‘I don’t care, as long as I can put it in.’.
at put it in (and break it) (v.) under it, n.1
[Aus] R. Macklin Queenslander 10: My brother went up her like a rat up a drainpipe. She’s a nympho.
at nympho, n.
[Aus] R. Macklin Queenslander 10: My brother went up her like a rat up a drainpipe. She’s a nympho.
at like a rat up a drainpipe (adv.) under rat, n.1
[Aus] R. Macklin Queenslander 43: We rolled her over on the beach and started scraping.
at scrape, v.
[Aus] R. Macklin Queenslander 110: An old scrubber bull reared to his feet.
at scrubber, n.
[Aus] R. Macklin Queenslander 181: Old Mavis hasn’t done a tap for anyone but Arthur.
at tap, n.1
[Aus] R. Macklin Queenslander 217: You’ve lit the fires, wench. Ha!
at wench, n.
[Aus] R. Macklin Queenslander 106: The loneliness would whip away on the darting swirl of a willy-willy.
at willy-willy, n.
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