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The Pagan Game choose

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[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 110: Always sending for a chit from the Head every time he had to [...] instruct the Ag boys on farm management.
at ag, n.1
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 163: Making his marble good with the missus.
at make one’s alley good (v.) under alley, n.3
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 162: Using that in and out word when he hit his thumb with the hammer.
at in-and-out, n.1
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 158: He’s been a bit of a tin-bum [...] Not like me. I’m always shit out of luck.
at tin-arse, n.
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 162: There we were arse up with care over the bank.
at arse up under arse, n.
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 102: And do they? Pig’s arse. They’re all too well off.
at pig’s arse!, excl.
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 162: Doesn’t know if he’s punched, bored, or countersunk.
at not know if one’s arsehole is bored or punched (v.) under arsehole, n.
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 174: The only pep talk he ever gave them, all he ever said every Saturday, was go out there and give em arseholes.
at give someone arseholes (v.) under arsehole, n.
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 175: Mrs Archer, game as Ned Kelly, dancing about wearing nothing but three pot lids.
at ...Ned Kelly under game as..., adj.
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 202: What George Webster would call a bad show, chaps.
at bad show! (excl.) under bad, adj.
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 106: There was no hope of getting away from him once he bailed anybody up in the staffroom.
at bail up, v.
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 157: The married woman he slept with and when her youngest son climbed into bed with them he, with considerable presence of mind, gave him a piggy back ride which the Padre said was one of the greatest atrocity stories to come out of the war.
at piggy bank, n.
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 151: He felt like having a bash anyway.
at bash, n.1
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 175: The due mille jobs, the fur coat jobs on the batter.
at batter, v.
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 109: He had given him four bloody beauts across the arse for using foul language.
at beaut, n.1
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 162: A belt-up in the ruck, a bunch of five, fair enough.
at belt-up (n.) under belt, v.
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 73: The Chairman, a notorious bible-banger, was demanding a Christian revival in the College.
at bible-banger (n.) under bible, n.
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 165: The proper form and ceremony after having a few wets was to have a binder.
at binder, n.1
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 165: The proper form and ceremony after having a few wets was to have a binder.
at binder, n.1
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 162: Off down the road like a cut cat. Pandebloodymonium.
at bloody, adv.
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 163: Two queens having a stand up scratch fight — Poking the borax.
at poke (the) borak (v.) under borak, n.
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 82: He scoffed at God-botherers.
at God-botherer, n.
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 164: He’s a moral to get potted — / Shock treatment for the old brewer’s asthma – / Spewed me heart out.
at brewer’s asthma (n.) under brewer’s..., n.
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 126: It’s up to you to get onto that loose ball like a ton of bricks.
at like a ton of brick(s) (adv.) under brick, n.
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 101: Fat lot of time I’ve got to watch you lot playing silly buggers.
at play silly buggers (v.) under bugger, n.1
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 104: I’ve seen him when eveybody else has buggered off home.
at bugger off, v.
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 86: The women on the staff hate us being out here on the bullring while they have to cope with the girls.
at bull-ring, n.1
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 134: Now you all saw that write-up in the sports paper last Saturday about what a great team Wellington Grammar are [...] and all that bullswool.
at bull’s wool, n.2
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 162: A belt-up in the ruck, a bunch of five, fair enough.
at bunch of fives, n.
[NZ] G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 67: He had chawed away at dry rations of bread and bung.
at bung, n.7
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