2004 T. Winton ‘Small Mercies’ in Turning (2005) 93: The horn went again: shave-and-a-haircut-ten-cents.at shave-and-a-haircut, n.
2004 T. Winton ‘Big World’ in Turning (2005) 5: He couldn’t give a rat’s ring.at not give a rat’s ass, v.
2004 T. Winton ‘Defender’ in Turning (2005) 312: The boy called him five kinds of fucking cunt.at all kinds of, adv.
2004 T. Winton ‘Abbreviation’ in Turning (2005) 18: They were the sorriest-looking bunch of girls you’d ever see, freckly as all get-out.at all get out, phr.
2004 T. Winton ‘Big World’ in Turning (2005) 3: I white-ant him day after day until it starts to pay off.at white-ant, v.
2004 T. Winton ‘Fog’ in Turning (2005) 236: He wondered if it was his reputation as a bit of a straight arrow.at straight arrow, n.
2004 T. Winton Turning (2005) 151: The kids arse about on escalators in department stores.at arse about (v.) under arse, v.
2004 T. Winton ‘Family’ in Turning (2005) 182: ‘You were more arse than class.’ ‘Fair enough. But I just played for fun.’.at more arse than class under arse, n.
2004 T. Winton ‘Family’ in Turning (2005) 183: Everything was arse-up again.at arse up under arse, n.
2004 T. Winton ‘Big World’ in Turning (2005) 11: Meg is as thick as a box of hammers.at thick as..., adj.
2004 T. Winton ‘Family’ in Turning (2005) 184: He played to prove every balding, wheezy lard-arse commentator wrong.at lard-assed, adj.
2004 T. Winton ‘Reunion’ in Turning (2005) 209: Oh my sainted aunt! cried Carol.at my aunt! (excl.) under aunt, n.
2004 T. Winton ‘Abbreviation’ in Turning (2005) 17: It was the usual Uncle Ernie balls-up.at balls-up, n.
2004 T. Winton ‘Abbreviation’ in Turning (2005) 18: Uncle Ernie was a ginger banty-rooster of a bloke.at banty, adj.
2004 T. Winton ‘Big World’ in Turning (2005) 4: He’s kind of pear-shaped, but you’d be a brave bugger calling him a barge-arse.at barge-arse (n.) under barge, n.1
2004 T. Winton ‘Cockleshell’ in Turning (2005) 123: In his day he was a professional rabble-rouser, a drunk, a basher.at basher, n.1
2004 T. Winton Turning (2005) 143: She tried to light a little joint she’d been saving but the bastard of a thing was too damp.at bastard, n.
2004 T. Winton ‘Abbreviation’ Turning (2005) 29: ‘Hurt?’ ‘Like a total bastard,’ she said.at like a bastard (adv.) under bastard, n.
2004 T. Winton ‘Big World’ in Turning (2005) 14: In a week Biggie and Meg will blow me off.at blow off, v.1
2004 T. Winton Turning (2005) 143: Raelene blew off darts night altogether and just went straight to Dan and Sherry’s.at blow off, v.1
2004 T. Winton ‘Family’ in Turning (2005) 181: You come here to blue with me? said Max with his pit-bull leer.at blue, v.3
2004 T. Winton ‘Big World’ in Turning (2005) 5: For him, our bombing out is a huge joke.at bomb out, v.
2004 T. Winton ‘Boner McPharlin’s Moll’ in Turning (2005) 263: Hard-faced sluts [...] wanted to know how big Boner’s bone was.at bone, n.1
2004 T. Winton ‘Boner McPharlin’s Moll’ in Turning (2005) 262: The gossip at school was brutal.at brutal, adj.
2004 T. Winton ‘Family’ in Turning (2005) 172: Leaper chucked his board and wetsuit into the old HK and buggered off to White Point.at bugger off, v.