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Gold in the Streets choose

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[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 204: We go like aristo-something, all posh tog.
at aristo, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 208: Showing me the haunts [...] knocking me down to the big smells.
at big cheese, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 201: A man’d have to dissect you to find a trey bit.
at trey-bit, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 201: Has the fat blob put me in here?
at blob, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 209: The few drinking at the bar, the old hags and red-nosed blottos at the tables.
at blotto, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 142: The low-down bludger comes home at eighty to one.
at bludger, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 166: Wouldn’t mind having a bo-peep at that.
at bo-peep, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 168: Strike a light, Danno you gimme the jimmy britts at times.
at Jimmy Britts, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 118: Heard he was going bush.
at go bush (v.) under bush, n.1
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 140: Ed’s a bushy.
at bushy, n.1
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 210: Let’s get out of here before I do me block with this old dippo.
at dipso, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 208: Showing me the haunts [...] knocking me down to the big smells.
at knock down, v.
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 117: Gab, gab, gab; wax-boring old goat.
at gab, n.2
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 107: ‘Let’s have another gallop.’ Danno fought aggressively.
at gallop, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 140: Reckons he’s had a gutful already, and he’s only been here a coupla days.
at gutsful, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 90: Holy mac, everything happens to me.
at holy mackerel!, excl.
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 166: Bankers and bookies [...] Stand them on their heads and the hoot’d roll everywhere.
at hoot, n.1
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 139: God, they’d give you a pain in the teat.
at give someone a pain in the neck (v.) under pain (in the neck), n.1
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 203: You weren’t Chris Cassimatis at all, but a pretty poor ring-in for Chris Cassimatis.
at ring-in, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 164: Danno looked them over. Couple of kidstakes tough guys.
at kidstakes, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 121: There’s another dame I could murder: long-tongued lizard.
at long-tongued, adj.
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 168: Don’t be a morepork, Pudden.
at mopoke, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 222: That’s me great, sweet father that would play Judas for the price of his son. The grudge-artist and the top-off!
at top-off, n.1
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 111: A shame you didn’t hang one on his detestable puss!
at hang one on (v.) under one, n.1
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 121: The dreamy waitress dawdled up. Danno thought: About time too, you flat-chested pancake.
at pancake, n.2
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets 64: ‘He got hold of a potater. He’ll see us later.’ ‘Any good?’ Danno whispered. ‘Who?’ ‘The sheila.’.
at potato (peeler), n.
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 141: ‘Just a piece,’ Danno said: quizpot bastard.
at -pot, sfx
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 105: Bumped into Charlie, we had a couple of pots.
at pot, n.1
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 139: What the hell’s he’s always got to be pushing his big spud face into other people’s business.
at potato-face (n.) under potato, n.
[Aus] D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 166: Horse trainers, quacks, old rams with bits of fluff.
at ram, n.1
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