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[Aus] A. Buzo Macquarie 58: The revolution, you dead shit.
at dead shit (n.) under dead, adj.
[Aus] A. Buzo Macquarie 11: Yeah, thats been said, smart fart.
at smart fart (n.) under smart, adj.
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. n.p.: pisswhacker [...] a female cicada which makes no sound but squirts a noisome fluid when disturbed .
at pisswhacker, n.
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. 858/2: hotpoint, v.t. Prison colloq. to cheat; deceive. Also point.–hotpointer.
at hotpoint (v.) under hot, adj.
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. 🌐 phrase 2. triss about, to behave in the manner of an effeminate homosexual male.
at triss about, v.
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. 🌐 fiddle-fart verb to waste time in frivolous activity. Also, fiddle-arse.
at fiddle-arse, v.
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. 🌐 Australian salute noun the movement of the hand and arm to brush away flies from one’s face. Also, Barcoo salute.
at Australian salute (n.) under Australian, adj.
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. 🌐 4. boil the billy, a. to make tea, not necessarily with a billy can.
at boil the billy (v.) under boil, v.
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. 🌐 choof verb 1. to smoke marijuana. [...] choofer noun an inveterate marijuana smoker.
at choof, n.
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. 🌐 Christmas hold noun Wrestling, etc. a hold in which one grabs the opponent’s testicles (a Christmas hold is ‘a handful of nuts’, i.e. nuts testicles).
at Christmas hold (n.) under Christmas, n.
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. 🌐 fair shake of the dice, an appeal for fairness or reason.
at fair shake of the dice, phr.
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. 🌐 diff noun [...] 2. an engine differential: Me car needs a new diff.
at dif, n.
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. 🌐 eelerspee noun Obsolete a confidence trickster; a con artist. [the word spieler, as rendered in pig-Latin].
at eelerspee, n.
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. 🌐 flipwreck noun a male who masturbates very often.
at flipwreck, n.
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. 🌐 gang bang noun an occasion on which a number of males have sexual intercourse with one female. Also, gangie, gang slash, gang splash.
at gang-splash (n.) under gang, n.1
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. 🌐 grief noun a type of low-quality marijuana [rhyming slang for leaf].
at grief, n.2
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. 🌐 grouseadjective 1. very good.
at grouse gear (n.) under grouse, adj.
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. 🌐 grouternoun 1. an unfair advantage.
at grouter, n.
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. 🌐 come in on the grouter, a. to take an unfair advantage of a situation.
at come in on the grouter (v.) under grouter, n.
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. 🌐 Henry the Third noun a turd. Also, Richard the Third. [rhyming slang].
at Henry III, n.
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. 🌐 irrits plural noun 1. a feeling of annoyance or irritation: have the irrits. – phrase 2. give (someone) the irrits, to make (someone) annoyed.
at give someone the irrits (v.) under irrits, n.
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. 🌐 wouldn’t feed it to a Jap on Anzac Day, (of food) absolutely disgusting.
at you wouldn’t give it to a Jap on ANZAC Day under Jap, n.
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. 🌐 4. lair up, a. to dress up in flashy clothes. b. to renovate or dress up something in bad taste.
at lair, v.
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. 🌐 3. lair it up, to behave in a brash and vulgar manner.
at lair, v.
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. 🌐 Melba phrase to do a Melba, to make a habit of returning from retirement, in a number of ‘farewell’ performances. [from Dame Nellie Melba, 1861–1931, who had several ‘farewells’].
at do a Melba (v.) under Melba, n.
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. 🌐 one [...] adverb 5. Criminal (used with a specifying number) in a group of that number; thus one out – alone, two out – in company with another, five out – in a group of five, etc.
at one out, adj.
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. 🌐 pinko noun 1. Also, pinkie. a Communist or Leftist sympathiser.
at pinko, n.
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. 🌐 Henry the Thirdnoun a turd. Also, Richard the Third. [rhyming slang].
at Richard (the Third), n.
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. 🌐 seat Prisonverb 1. to perform anal intercourse on. — noun 2. anal intercourse.
at seat, v.
[Aus] Macquarie Dict. 🌐 5. up each other or up one another, behaving in a sycophantic or toadying fashion to each other.
at up each other (adj.) under up, prep.
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