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A Salute to the Great McCarthy choose

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[Aus] B. Oakley Salute to the Great McCarthy 23: S’all right smart dick. He’s heading for big trouble.
at smart aleck, n.
[Aus] B. Oakley Salute to the Great McCarthy 65: Don’t come the big note with me, Fortune, your next sarcasm might be your last.
at big-note, v.
[Aus] B. Oakley Salute to the Great McCarthy 65: This clean-living country lad! I don’t want him ruined by any of your pimply office bodgies, do you understand?
at bodgie, n.
[Aus] B. Oakley Salute to the Great McCarthy 75: This is the last day you spend sitting on your bronzes in the sun. Get up!
at bronze, n.2
[Aus] B. Oakley Salute to the Great McCarthy 31: What’s this I hear [...] about that there Mister Universe dropping his bundle.
at drop one’s bundle (v.) under bundle, n.1
[Aus] B. Oakley Salute to the Great McCarthy 113: An enemy group moves into the sun, the light breaking on rival slogans. [...] LOUSY COMS scores a hit on the head.
at com, n.
[Aus] B. Oakley Salute to the Great McCarthy 187: Garn! Nohoper! Nine-day wonder! Take him off!
at go on!, excl.
[Aus] B. Oakley Salute to the Great McCarthy 89: My guts are potato chips, at the windows the carnivores bellow for blood. One minute and forty seconds to go.
at my guts are potato chips under gut, n.
[Aus] B. Oakley Salute to the Great McCarthy 182: With a pair of the biggest female headlights you ever saw.
at headlight, n.
[Aus] B. Oakley Salute to the Great McCarthy 157: An apparition all of a sudden at the oor. ‘Albert! Albert the hip!’.
at hip, n.2
[Aus] B. Oakley Salute to the Great McCarthy 158: Alby the Hippie intoning a slow Gregorian chant.
at hippie, n.2
[Aus] B. Oakley Salute to the Great McCarthy 196: Up like a rocket, down like a stone. kaboom. A write-off.
at kaboom!, excl.
[Aus] B. Oakley Salute to the Great McCarthy 84: Next day, McCarthy’s King Rat at the office. Melbourne is a football town, and half the population come round to touch his hand.
at King Rat (n.) under king, n.
[Aus] B. Oakley Salute to the Great McCarthy 72: Get out of here! Larrikin! Hoodlum! Out!
at larrikin, n.
[Aus] B. Oakley Salute to the Great McCarthy 171: You and your Moll. She’ll be [...] writing notes. McCarthy’s Whore [...] Screwer of Loose Women.
at moll, n.
[Aus] B. Oakley Salute to the Great McCarthy 89: He’ll be up against Moose Tucker, one of the greatest animals ever to put on a boot.
at moose, n.1
[Aus] B. Oakley Salute to the Great McCarthy 42: Old Favoloro, the accursed nightman, the despised, fly-by-night, ogre of the kids. ‘I won’t have that, no—you’re trying to get me out of my job!’ Raising a gleaming rubberised sleeve. ‘You get your can emptied regular, where is the justice?’.
at nightman (n.) under night, n.
[Aus] B. Oakley Salute to the Great McCarthy 75: He whips over to Porky Beveridge [...] ‘We don’t have that kind of talk round here.’ Porky goggling up at him—(what? Prise the profanity from Porky? Leave him dumb?).
at porky, n.
[Aus] B. Oakley Salute to the Great McCarthy 40: You and that rag of yours you print on shit-paper.
at shitpaper (n.) under shit, n.
[Aus] B. Oakley Salute to the Great McCarthy 169: Suburban shitkicker! Clerk!
at shitkicker, n.
[Aus] B. Oakley Salute to the Great McCarthy 1: I walk down the street [...] home, safe back in Squaresville after two enormous years.
at squaresville (n.) under square, adj.
[Aus] B. Oakley Salute to the Great McCarthy 101: Keep going, I’m all stoked up.
at stoked, adj.
[Aus] B. Oakley Salute to the Great McCarthy 73: Warburton high, Vera tanked, McCarthy stoned.
at tanked (up), adj.
[Aus] B. Oakley Salute to the Great McCarthy 160: I [...] there, in my one true home, my bedroom and toilet, throw up my guts.
at throw up, v.
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