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[Aus] V. Marshall Jail From Within (1969) 22: ‘If yer lucky yer might get a bite at the Bay tonight,’ said the officer with brutal unconcern.
at Bay, the, n.
[Aus] V. Marshall Jail From Within (1969) 42: I paused to straighten my back. An angry shout from the warder [...] greeted my action. ‘Bog in there, you damn loafer.’.
at bog in, v.
[Aus] V. Marshall Jail From Within (1969) 22: A long gaunt, silent individual [...] coughed hoarsely and expectorated huge gobs of crimson-streaked saliva.
at gob, n.2
[Aus] V. Marshall Jail From Within (1969) 52: I worked as assistant to a comrade who was ‘doing the whole lot’.
at lot, n.1
[Aus] V. Marshall Jail From Within (1969) 45: Christ Orlmighty, some o’you toeraggers (short-timers) take the cake.
at toe-ragger, n.
[Aus] V. Marshall Jail From Within (1969) 33: With fourteen or fifteen other prisoners also doing ‘separate’, I [...] was led out.
at separate, n.
[Aus] V. Marshall Jail From Within (1969) 22: The ‘sure thing’ had been ‘pipped on the post’.
at sure thing, n.
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