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The Ace of Diamonds Gang and Other Stories choose

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[NZ] Bob Weir/The Grateful Dead ‘Greatest Story Ever Told’ 🎵 Ace [album] Abraham and Isaac sitting on a fence / Get right to work if you have any sense / You know the one thing we need is a left-hand monkey wrench.
at left-handed monkey wrench (n.) under left-handed, adj.
[NZ] O. Marshall ‘The Master of Big Jingles’ in Ace of Diamonds Gang (1993) 17: What a dunny brush he turned out to be.
at dunny-brush (n.) under dunny, n.2
[NZ] O. Marshall ‘The Master of Big Jingles’ in Ace of Diamonds Gang (1993) 14: He resented Creamy’s ability [...] he’d like to see Creamy take a fall.
at take a fall (v.) under fall, n.
[NZ] O. Marshall ‘The Master of Big Jingles’ in Ace of Diamonds Gang (1993) 19: ‘Pax!’ said Rainbow bitterly.
at pax!, excl.
[NZ] O. Marshall ‘The Master of Big Jingles’ in Ace of Diamonds Gang (1993) 13: ‘Rabbits are good shitters,’ said Arty. ‘I don’t see how anything could beat horses and elephants,’ said Ken.
at shitter, n.1
[NZ] O. Marshall ‘Prince Valiant’ in Ace of Diamonds Gang (1993) 47: I saw that on the car [...] All doo-dahed up all right.
at doo-dah up, v.
[NZ] O. Marshall ‘The Bank Section’ in Ace of Diamonds Gang 122: Dirty minded. Always on about the size of his dawk.
at dork, n.
[NZ] O. Marshall ‘The Bank Section’ in Ace of Diamonds Gang 122: Always on about the size of his dawk and how he’s going to root Camille Brown.
at root, v.
[NZ] O. Marshall ‘The Bank Section’ in Ace of Diamonds Gang 122: Yea, well remember the size of some of them. Bloody wopcackers.
at whopcacker, n.
[NZ] O. Marshall ‘The Bank Section’ in Ace of Diamonds Gang 122: Yea, well remember the size of some of them. Bloody wopcackers.
at woopknacker, n.
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