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Staunch: Inside the Gangs choose

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[NZ] B. Payne Staunch 19: A bald’ead an outsider whom the Mob go to great lengths to be different from.
at ballhead, n.
[NZ] B. Payne Staunch 90: I turned round, dropped my trousers and [...] bent over and gave her the ‘brown-eye’.
at do a brown eye (v.) under brown eye, n.
[NZ] B. Payne Staunch 99: All prison officers will tell you there comes a time when [the prisoner] just decides not to come back [...] it could be the fourth or fifth lag.
at lag, n.2
[NZ] B. Payne Staunch 35: The screws hate the Mob, they hate the Mob like nothing else but they still used them to improve their pay conditions and at Pare the Mob caught on to that.
at mob, n.2
[NZ] B. Payne Staunch 27: [The Stormtroopers] were once allowed to come to a Mongrel Mob convention but it made me sick! The Mobsters who permitted it [...] found the error of their ways later.
at mobster, n.
[NZ] B. Payne Staunch 145: ‘[T]he Mongrels used to have rallies in their huts, singing Mongrel Mob ditties, stomping the floor, barking like bulldogs, and yelling out, ‘Black Power shit!’.
at mongrel, n.
[NZ] B. Payne Staunch 35: I went to Pare to meet the first officer and he’s a classic case of a street-sweeper complaining because the streets are dirty.
at Parry, n.
[NZ] B. Payne Staunch 123: I first patched up in 1972 and I’ve been part of one chapter ever since.
at patch up (v.) under patch, v.
[NZ] B. Payne Staunch 123: I first patched up in 1972 and I've been part of one chapter ever since then.
at patch up (v.) under patch, n.
[NZ] B. Payne Staunch 140: A week later she came back and she wasn't allowed to visit me; they told her I was down in the pound [punishment cells].
at pound, n.4
[NZ] B. Payne Staunch 93: [H]e went into corrective training a second time and I have my suspicions that the prospecting started there, the recruiting started there.
at prospect, v.
[NZ] B. Payne Staunch 76: Prospects have a hard time of it in jail. They are expected to clean out patch member’ cells, fight who and when they are told to, stand over other, usually weaker, inmates for drugs, chocs, and other booty, which they must then hand straight to the patch member, and generally act as the serrated edge for most underhand gang activity inside.
at prospect, n.
[NZ] B. Payne Staunch 141: I’m shit-scared of a nuclear war.
at shit-scared, adj.
[NZ] B. Payne Staunch 88: Until recently, screws (prison officers) have done little more than turn keys and manhandle rough inmates.
at screw, n.1
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