1993 M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read How to Shoot Friends 106: He was always a touch on the aggro and paranoid side.at aggro, adj.
1993 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.
1993 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.
1993 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
1993 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.
1993 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.
1993 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.
1993 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.
1993 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.
1993 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.
1993 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.
1993 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.
1993 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.
1993 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.
1993 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
1993 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.
1993 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
1993 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.
1993 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
1993 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
1993 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.
1993 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
1993 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.
1993 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
1993 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
1993 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
1993 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.
1993 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.
1993 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.