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[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid 94: No bloody black fellow is going to bail up on me.
at bail up, v.
[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid 217: They dispensed tactfully casual invitations for lunch or tea to billabongers who hadn’t eaten a really square meal for months.
at billabonger, n.
[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid 117: Being in it meant gin slings before breakfast [...] bridge or poker at night with ‘wet’ two-bob-ins after every couple of hands.
at bob in (n.) under bob, n.3
[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid 314: ‘Don’t want your bus,’ Bryan told him.
at bus, n.2
[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid 314: It had had more owners than a bad bush racehorse.
at bush, adj.1
[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid 315: Dash it all, I’ve done as much cattle work and have a better knowledge.
at dash it (all)! (excl.) under dash, v.1
[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid (1981) 61: He told of roads so bare ‘you could flog a flea along them with a greenhide whip’.
at could flog a flea across/along/through (v.) under flea, n.
[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid 229: ‘All set on the side?’ asked Mark Hall. There was no reply. ‘Then I’m bringing the spinner in’.
at get set (v.) under get, v.
[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid 111: The reason why most of them left was that ‘the Missus was too much of a gin shepherd’.
at gin-shepherd (n.) under gin, n.1
[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid 217: That Blandings at Baritana is the greatest gin-cuddler I’ve ever seen in my life.
at gin-cuddler (n.) under gin, n.1
[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid 309: ‘Before you go out, Top, douse that bloody glim.’ Mr. Toppingham put out the light.
at douse the glim (v.) under glim, n.
[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid 12: If you gravy-eyed bitches don’t get a move on I’ll come down there and kick last year’s goannas out of you.
at gravy-eyed (adj.) under gravy, n.
[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid 303: ‘I nearly burned it down.’ ‘How was that?’ ‘Oh, usual new-chum jackeroo style.’.
at jackaroo, n.
[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid 94: Well, if I can beat the liver and lights out of you first I’ll swing happy.
at put someone’s light(s) out (v.) under light, n.
[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid 112: The gins ran to the ‘Missus’ screaming for protection.
at Missus, n.
[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid 303: You can wrap your thanks [...] round Fred Jason’s clothes and boots and jam the lot where the monkey put the pineapple.
at where the monkey puts his/the nuts (n.) under monkey, n.
[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid 111: All lubras with the slightest vestige of comeliness were taken out of the kitchen and replaced by some weak, half-myall misfits.
at myall, n.
[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid 94: You’re a mob of swine. You’d get a man hung over a useless bastard of a nigger.
at nigger, n.1
[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid 164: There was no nark or pointer in the camp, they rode good horses by day and champions at night [AND].
at pointer, n.2
[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid 313: He had knocked forty thousand miles on its speedo.
at speedo (n.) under speed, n.
[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid 88: Lily had become in fact as well as in repute the ‘Storekeeper’s Stud’.
at stud, n.
[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid 92: This isn’t my camp, I’m only swamping a ride.
at swamp, v.2
[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid 94: I’m the only swamper in this camp.
at swamper, n.
[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid 21: If Sidi picked up any swampers it was a safe bet that some of the luxury goods would be short on arrival .
at swamper, n.
[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid 94: Well, if I can belt the liver and lights out of you first I’ll swing happy.
at swing, v.
[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid 98: It’s only tucker money, but Ettrick agreed to do the job for a tenner and situated as I am I could hardly ask for more.
at tucker money (n.) under tucker, n.
[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid 299: The man [...] had stood off the redoubtable Pick-handle Nailon with a storm of abuse and a two-handed waddy.
at waddy, n.
[Aus] T. Ronan Vision Splendid 269: Me and old Hanson are going whacks in one next pay day.
at go whacks (v.) under whack, n.1
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