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Mystery Bay Blues choose

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[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 150: Despite the gigantic mumble on the grumble he gave her, there could be another [...] way to return the favour.
at grumble (and grunt), n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 14: Ray suggested they brush the bogie hole and just fartarse around in front of the boat sheds.
at fart-arse, v.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 148: Mr Wobbly started climbing out of Norton’s Speedos, angier than ever.
at play Mr Wobbly hides his helmet (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 248: If Grace’s sweet lips had gone within cooee of Mr Wobbly it would have been a disaster. Instead Les spread Grace’s legs and slipped the angry little fellow into his favourite hiding place.
at play Mr Wobbly hides his helmet (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 156: I will not have you bad mouthing the integrity of Mr Galese.
at badmouth, v.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 56: Mullets got banged up over a huge shipment and was still on remand in Long Bay.
at bang up, v.2
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 83: Gwendolyn [...] was an absolute beast. She had a miserable, fat face, pushed into a bony, hog head.
at beast, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 24: ‘The only blue’s finding somewhere to stay down there’ [...] ‘That mightn’t be a problem’.
at blue, n.4
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 24: Shuffling round Bondi, like Marriane [sic] Faithfull with an axe-handle stuck up her blurter.
at blurter, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 150: Les looked up at the sky and grinned. You like me boss, don’t you.
at Boss, the, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 18: ‘That’s not very nice, Les.’ ‘No. And neither’s brassing me for two hundred dollars’.
at brass, v.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 14: Ray suggested they brush the bogie hole and just fartarse around in front of the boat sheds.
at brush, v.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 120: You’re a shitty fuckin waiter [...] And this is your little bumboy.
at bum boy (n.) under bum, n.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 31: He’d been sneaking a bit of his pot and having a little joint [...] It wasn’t a bad buzz.
at buzz, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 76: A law firm [...] where the lawyers were cooking the books.
at cook, v.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 121: Hang on a moment, Morgan [...] You’re blowing your cool.
at blow one’s cool (v.) under cool, n.2
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 21: Would you like a cup of coffee? [...] Or a cool one.
at cool one (n.) under cool, adj.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 46: I’m fucked if I’m goona cop that.
at cop, v.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 25: Your memory’s gone. You’ve got CRAFT syndrome. Can’t remember a fuckin’ thing.
at CRAFT, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 57: Four fishermen picked a fight with some bloke and he absolutely creamed them.
at cream, v.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 155: Grace looked at the two joints [...] and the bag of dacca.
at dacca, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 290: Hello Morticia, you little dag.
at dag, n.2
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 62: [He] shuffled around [...] like Marriane [sic] Faithfull with an axe handle stuck in her date.
at date, n.3
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 130: Are you fair dinkum going to fight that dopey, big relation of yours.
at fair dinkum, adv.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 18: If ever he came across an old lady being mugged and caught the dirtbag doing it [etc.].
at dirtbag, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 26: Just because I drop the odd disco biscuit and hit a rave now and again [...] doesn’t mean I don’t like [...] rock ’n’ roll.
at disco biscuit (n.) under disco, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 12: Serina got done in WA for conspiracy to import cocaine.
at done, adj.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 237: We thought we’d done our dough [...] You were taking an awful battering.
at do one’s dough (v.) under dough, n.
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 251: Move into a motel. That’s going to be a nice drag just for one night.
at drag, n.1
[Aus] R.G. Barrett Mystery Bay Blues 1: Les might have been a bit of a dropkick in Leaving Bondi.
at dropkick, n.
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