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[Aus] Meanjin Quarterly (Melbourne) 308: Like Billy in the Kinder.
at kinder, n.
[Aus] Meanjin Quarterly Mar. (Melbourne) 41: I’m buggered if I was going to have a type like that in my house.
at buggered, adj.1
[Aus] Meanjin Quarterly Mar. (Melbourne) 10: [a plane] I was having trouble with a donk [...] she put her nose down and dropped her starboard wing.
at donk, n.1
[Aus] Meanjin Quarterly Mar. (Melbourne) 10: I thought I was going to be sick—that I’d have a blackout and prang.
at prang, v.
[Aus] Meanjin Quarterly (Melbourne) 281: ‘See them lyrebirds.’ Jack agreed. The two bush-heads were manifestly revelling in their role as hosts.
at bush-head, n.2
[Aus] Meanjin Quarterly (Melbourne) Sept. 310: Not one of the company – and least of all Brendan [Behan] [...] wanted the night to end so soon. ‘Let’s do the bona fide?’ he suggested .
at bona fide, n.
[Aus] Meanjin Quarterly (Melbourne) XXXIII 445: In him we glimpse how, when the war began, innocence and ockerdom merged to produce adventurism.
at ockerdom (n.) under ocker, n.
[Aus] Meanjin Quarterly Jan. (Melbourne) n.p.: acca (slightly derogatory) 1, noun An academic rather than an intellectual, particularly adept at manipulating trendologies, usually with full scholarly apparatus. Hence 2, noun A particularly sterile piece of academic writing.
at acca, n.
[Aus] Meanjin Quarterly (Melbourne) XLVI 181: The suggestion by Tory Minister Alan Clark [...] that ‘blacks’ should be sent back to ‘Bongo Bongo land’.
at bongo-(bongo) land (n.) under bongo, n.1
[Aus] Meanjin Quarterly (Melbourne) XLVI 407: Badgery reveals that his age was a lie all along, a spruik for the customers.
at spruik, n.
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