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The Big Huey choose

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[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 253: rub-de-dub (n) Pub.
at rub-a-dub, n.2
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 122: The reason the locks got done is that they’ve been fucking us about over the rules around here.
at fuck about, v.
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 11: By the end of ’74 I was already mucking around with the odd barbiturate.
at muck about, v.
[NZ] G.Newbold Big Huey 244: ace (n) 1. The best, of high quality.
at ace, n.
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 248: false alarm (n) Arm.
at false alarm, n.2
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 217: Chris [...] was doing eight for importing coke and hammer.
at hammer and tack, n.
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 250: lost-and-found (n) Detention unit.
at lost and found, n.
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 251: mum-and-dad (adj) Mad.
at mum and dad, adj.1
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 253: Skin-and-blister (n) Sister.
at skin-and-blister, n.
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 250: lord and lady (n) Sex.
at lord and lady, n.
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 252: One another (n) [...] brother.
at one another, n.
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 252: One another (n) mother.
at one another, n.
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 249: hairy ape (n) Rape.
at hairy ape, n.
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 251: noah’s ark (n) Informant.
at Noah’s (ark), n.1
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 59: If the others knew the way I was feeling they’d call me ‘broken arse’.
at broken arse, n.
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 220: A mixture of burglars, bash-artists, white-collar criminals and sex offenders.
at -artist, sfx
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 110: It was by far the best brew I’d ever sampled in jail [...] Pretty soon we were all as silly as chooks.
at ...a chook (with its head cut off) under silly as…, adj.
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 223: The screws of course were awake to it all.
at awake, adj.
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 223: It wasn’t long before the BPs had more or less taken over the whole visiting area.
at b.p., n.
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 244: babe ruth (n) Truth.
at Babe Ruth, n.
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 81: I’m just going to watch in case my mate needs a backstop.
at backstop (n.) under back, adj.2
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 168: In our gang we all used to back on Barclay because we’d all talked it over and decided to stick together.
at back on (v.) under back, v.2
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 79: It was rare for a dispute to take place without at least talk of a back-up (retaliation) afterwards.
at back up, n.2
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 119: Another thing which got some of our backs up was the way the superintendent used to smile and wave at the work parties whenever he drove past.
at get someone’s back up (v.) under back, n.1
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 244: back up (v) Repeat, reoffend.
at back up, v.2
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 53: That afternoon Paul, who was the larger of the two, backed up on Birdie in a decisive manner.
at back up, v.3
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 245: bowl of fruit (n) Suit.
at bag of fruit, n.
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 244: beans (n) e.g., get one’s —. Be beaten up. British army slang, quoted by Kipling in 1890.
at get beans (v.) under beans, n.2
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 244: beat the feet (v) Run away, escape.
at beat feet (it) (v.) under beat, v.
[NZ] G. Newbold Big Huey 37: I knew that if I went under on the heroin charge I was in for a big one.
at big one, n.
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