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How to Shoot Friends and Influence People choose

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[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 106: He was always a touch on the aggro and paranoid side.
at aggro, adj.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 10: Two of our people had cut and run before the battle had even started.
at cut and run, v.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 196: We ended up losing the appeal, but I won’t bag the poor bugger. [...] Only mugs and poor sports blame their bloody lawyers.
at bag, v.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 28: I waited in trepidation for the bollocking I thought I’d get.
at ballocking, n.2
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 182: So to the Randy Mandys [...] who keep writing me these jelly bean letters, leave me alone and get yourself a life.
at jelly bean, adj.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 76: I look back on the jelly beans I have shot, stabbed, bashed, iron-barred, axed, knee-capped, toe-cut, blow-torched, killed and generally up-ended.
at jelly bean, n.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 87: Hetzell played them all like a violin. I believe he beat the cops, his old gang and the courts.
at beat, v.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 131: His older brother Shane is in Risdon, doing the big one for murder.
at big one, n.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 53: The big deal greyhound blew his monkey muscle at the time trials.
at big deal, adj.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 86: Jimmy Loughnan and me were used to big-noting nitwits who raved on about what they wanted to do.
at big-note, v.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 3: Some ammo and a bankroll of cash that would choke a horse.
at big enough to choke a bull (adj.) under big, adj.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 35: In the company of the big boys he was just a hanger on.
at big boy, n.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 203: ‘Around the traps’ is an expression used to describe what happens when big noters and wishful thinkers get together for a Saturday night piss up.
at big noter, n.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 26: For goodness sake, I am in the bin doing a monster stretch for something I didn’t do.
at bin, n.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 179: I would hardly say to the stewards: ‘Hey, we had a boat race going on in the fourth, could we declare it a non-race?’.
at boatrace, n.1
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 22: I have suffered bad cases of Bombay Bottom, at the hands of Mad Dog’s curried vegies in Pentridge.
at Bombay bottom (n.) under Bombay, n.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 61: We went off in search of bottom bandits.
at bottom bandit (n.) under bottom, n.3
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 165: It was the sort of brain dead plan that General Custer once hatched, and it didn’t do him any good either.
at brain-dead, adj.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 49: Many a big brave buck in Launceston likes to make smart-arsed comments about it [i.e. a tattoo].
at buck, n.1
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 5: She has a string of strippers for bucks’ night, hotels and clubs.
at buck’s night (n.) under buck, n.1
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 122: The various stories that followed [...] were the last straw for Margaret in a haystack full of past bugger-ups on my part.
at bugger-up, n.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 41: I never played funny buggers with a chick until I was 18 years old.
at play silly buggers (v.) under bugger, n.1
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 182: There is a bloke in WA who thinks he [...] has been given life on the bum rap of shooting some two-bob bikie in Launceston.
at bum rap, n.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 20: Most professionals who hit a legal hurdle drop their bundles and do their time hard.
at drop one’s bundle (v.) under bundle, n.1
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 123: She is a former model and knows how to bung it on for the camera.
at bung it on (v.) under bung, v.1
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 87: The rest of the gang [...] were only bunnies in Hetzel’s treacherous game.
at bunny, n.1
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 204: As for his nice new compo cheque? [...] I am confident that she will have that little lot spent in no time flat.
at compo, n.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 69: Bash the crap out of a child and you’ll get four or five months.
at crap, the, phr.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 61: A la de da gentleman minced up to me and asked me the time.
at la-di-da(h), adj.
[Aus] M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 131: Andy was a dead set menace.
at dead set, adj.
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