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Haxby’s Circus choose

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[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 85: Mum and Billy Rocca both say Lord Freddie may be a shingle short.
at shingle short, a, adj.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 307: It’ll be a great ad. for the show.
at ad, n.1
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 345: ‘Too many b’s flying about. Not a bloody bee left in the hive,’ he said. ‘The old man ’d turn in his grave if he heard the way some of you chaps go shouting around.’.
at b, adj.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 131: Brooks had jumped Baldy’s claim on his wife.
at baldy, n.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 235: A mob of shearers [...] were having ‘a beano’ at the local pub.
at beano, n.1
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 15: I’m fair beat.
at beat, adj.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 131: You’ve got to be careful what you do these days, old bird.
at old bird, n.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 38: They blew their bags about the marvels and merits of Haxby’s.
at blow one’s bags (out) (v.) under blow, v.1
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 132: A short bald-headed man had killed his mate and blown out his own light afterwards.
at blow out someone’s light(s) (v.) under blow out, v.1
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 168: By God, she’s a bonza kid.
at bonzer, adj.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 29: Rabe [...] had made the time-honoured jokes and booted the little man out of the ring.
at boot, v.1
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 137: You been on the booze or what?
at on the booze under booze, n.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 115: You know how broke up I was about you, Gina.
at broke up, adj.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 117: The big brummy diamond ring she was so fond of.
at brummy, adj.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 235: A bumper audience in Cobar filled the till.
at bumper, adj.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 239: Local hotel and store-keepers knew the ways of shearers on the bust.
at on the bust under bust, n.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 28: She had come two or three busters while she was learning and practising.
at buster, n.1
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 239: Dan and the boys, with hammer, nails and fencing wire, ‘the cockie’s friend,’ mended seats and fixed up stakes.
at cocky’s friend (n.) under cocky, n.2
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 194: A bloke in one of the pubs [...] when he thought I was going to hit him, crayfished ... lay down on the floor, and said I couldn’t hit a man when he was down.
at crawfish, v.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 233: She couldn’t live for ever, I suppose. And it’s better this way than if she’d just died of old age – crocked-up and had to be shot perhaps.
at crocked, adj.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 125: ‘Old hog-fat beginning to earn a crust for herself,’ Dan exclaimed jovially.
at crust, n.1
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 200: The cut brought colour to Gina’s face.
at cut, n.1
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 266: Sleep well, darl?
at darl, n.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 226: The old man’s done his dash.
at do one’s dash (v.) under dash, n.1
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 131: Come on, if you’re a dinkum fortune-teller you ought to be able to do that?
at dinkum, adj.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 161: I think we could make a do of things.
at make a do of (v.) under do, n.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 126: Gina [...] could ‘spin the dope’ as he said, her prices were changed to one shilling for palm or card reading.
at spin the dope (v.) under dope, n.3
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 236: A bloody fake! A dud show.
at dud, adj.
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 312: They [...] were known as ‘the fast set’ because they smoked, were addicted to high balls, ‘spots,’ and cracking jokes with men.
at fast, adj.1
[Aus] K.S. Prichard Haxby’s Circus 79: I reck’n Bruiser’s over the fence. He makes trouble.
at over the fence under fence, n.1
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