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The Delinquents choose

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[UK] C. Rohan Delinquents 35: She’s only a bag when all is said and done.
at bag, n.1
[UK] C. Rohan Delinquents 151: Brisbane, best little town this or any side of the Black Stump.
at black stump, n.
[UK] C. Rohan Delinquents 85: You can go. I’ll give you that; but you have to spot too much weight. You’re too titchy to blue on.
at blue, v.3
[UK] C. Rohan Delinquents 52: I’m not keen on Nashos [...] I prefer bodgies.
at bodgie, n.
[UK] C. Rohan Delinquents 104: ‘Remember,’ she warned, ‘If the cops spring you here, I know nothing and no charity moll capers with my men.’.
at charity moll (n.) under charity, n.
[UK] C. Rohan Delinquents 5: He had to crack the pound to pay his fare.
at crack, v.2
[UK] C. Rohan Delinquents 165: Don’t drop it here, Mave.
at drop, v.5
[UK] C. Rohan Delinquents 137: How is the dunny? [...] Does it have a chain?
at dunny, n.2
[UK] C. Rohan Delinquents 150: Who would think I’d be so stiff as to fall again?
at fall, v.4
[UK] C. Rohan Delinquents 104: ‘He’s in the States.’ ‘Yes, sure.’ ‘He is, Dawn, no falsing.’.
at false, v.
[UK] C. Rohan Delinquents 150: Who would think I’d be so stiff as to fall again? I used fizzers, too.
at fizzer, n.2
[UK] C. Rohan Delinquents 149: You might have known a Geordie would get you up the spout as quick as look at you.
at Geordie, n.
[UK] C. Rohan Delinquents 128: I’m surprised at you dropping your guts to a few coppers.
at drop one’s guts (v.) under gut, n.
[UK] C. Rohan Delinquents 132: Don’t start talking to me as though you were a plain-clothes cop [...] or I’m liable to do the lolly.
at do the/one’s lolly (v.) under lolly, n.1
[UK] C. Rohan Delinquents 52: She seemed to know every Nasho in Brisbane.
at nasho, n.
[UK] C. Rohan Delinquents 157: Hello, honey, that sweater—one deep breath and your norks will be in my soup.
at norks, n.
[UK] C. Rohan Delinquents 50: An old woman sitting in the gutter outside one of those plonk shops.
at plonk, n.2
[UK] C. Rohan Delinquents 136: Mrs. Hansen called Lola [...] cunning as a shit-house rat.
at cunning as a shithouse rat (adj.) under shithouse rat, n.
[UK] C. Rohan Delinquents 190: Lola slipped into comfortable scuffs.
at scuff, n.2
[UK] C. Rohan Delinquents 149: You might have known a Geordie would get you up the spout as quick as look at you.
at up the spout under spout, n.2
[UK] C. Rohan Delinquents 150: Who would think I’d be so stiff as to fall again?
at stiff, adj.
[UK] C. Rohan Delinquents 101: You little tripe hound.
at tripe-hound (n.) under tripe, n.1
[UK] C. Rohan Delinquents 71: I’ll have to get you off the street somewhere tonight or you’ll be vagged.
at vag, v.
[UK] C. Rohan Delinquents 60: I’ll go over and collect your bottle otherwise some thirsty bum will whizz it off.
at whiz, v.1
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