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Chopper 4: Happiness Is a Warm Gun choose

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[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 54: Harry the Greek spends most of his day muttering and mumbling and air raiding about bloody two-headed Tasmanians.
at air raid, v.
[Aus] in M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 (2005) 272: I bet you’re blown out with excitement.
at blown (out), adj.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 259: The staff would turn a blind eye while the inmates kicked a new arsehole into him.
at tear someone a new asshole, v.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 21: Do me a very large favour, please.
at do me a favour, phr.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 81: She always said no to Abos and policemen.
at abo, n.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 63: These days people sit and chat [...] and buggerise about [...] like a bunch of grannies at a garden party.
at buggerize (about), v.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 148: This no-account hood and contract killer.
at no-account, adj.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 220: The crims armed up, so the cops armed up.
at arm up, v.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 39: It’s all part of the rough-as-guts Aussie humor.
at ...guts under rough as..., adj.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 180: The more I see the way poor old Aussieland is going the madder I become.
at Aussie, n.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 255: He’s got a face like five miles of bad road.
at — miles of bad road, n.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 225: The former Victorian State Coroner [...] has given the Victoria Police a bit of a bagging over the police shootings.
at bagging, n.4
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 205: We run out and try to find the biggest bangtail bleached blond moll in town.
at bangtail, n.1
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 122: As far as I’m concerned and as far as a million other Labor-voting battlers are concerned, he will always be [...] the bloke who invited the ALP to the dance.
at battler (n.) under battle, v.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 138: [of women] It might give some of the bent bitches a thrill.
at bent, adj.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 229: I’ll bet London to a brick that [...] a thousand years from now [...] only two sorts of men will be remembered: poets and killers.
at bet London to a brick (on) (v.) under bet, v.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 242: I was the ace in the hole for one side in a bikie war.
at bikie, n.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 104: I don’t mind that I had my ears hacked off, but the dickie bird stays where it is.
at dicky-bird, n.1
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 143: I did 10 ½ years in ‘H’ [i.e. the high-security division of Pentridge prison], the so-called blood house of the system.
at blood house (n.) under blood, n.1
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 29: I’m only a bloomin’ spectator.
at blooming, adj.1
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 11: It was the last blue we ever had [...] it’s not one of the best or bloodiest, but for me it’s a blue I’ve always remembered.
at blue, n.4
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 235: My dirty ditties and short stories are somewhat bluer that [sic] anything the gentle Banjo ever told.
at blue, adj.3
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 136: Little Miss Parker, the bluestone babe who turned the key on Peter Gibb’s heart.
at Bluestone College, n.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 144: They have just given me my nightly ‘bomb out pill’ and the white clouds are rolling in.
at bomb out, v.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 90: I don’t reply to chesty boob tube blondes.
at boob tube (n.) under boob, n.3
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 71: I had every clear intention of asking the lovely Mary-Ann to pick up her swag and boot off down the road.
at boot, v.1
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 100: Who gives a rat’s about a few bottom bandits.
at bottom bandit (n.) under bottom, n.3
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 156: That Jew boy he a gonna kill us all a one a day.
at Jew boy, n.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 271: I get up and flush the lot down the brasco.
at brasco, n.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 56: The Supreme Court appeal against my sentence broke me.
at break, v.1
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