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Heroin Annie and Other Cliff Hardy Stories choose

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[Aus] P. Corris ‘Mother’s Boy’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] The guy by the window moved across and hit me with a backhander behind the ear where it doesn’t show.
at back-hander, n.
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Stockyards at Jerilderie’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] ‘Who is he?’ ‘Tommy Gibbons. Bad news’.
at bad news, n.
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Marriages Are Made in Heaven’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] I could have said that a bashing and an abduction were very different things from a loitering perv, but I didn’t.
at bashing, n.
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Heroin Annie’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] I didn’t know a bleedin’ thing about it but she left me a note saying she had some money and not to worry.
at bleeding, adj.
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Marriages Are Made in Heaven’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] ‘There was a pub he used to call his local. [...] The Wattletree, know it?’ ‘I know it. A bloodhouse’.
at blood house (n.) under blood, n.1
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Heroin Annie’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] You know, Doc [...] you shouldn’t deal with fly-by-nighters like this. Could get you into trouble.
at fly-by-night, n.
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Marriages Are Made in Heaven’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] The magazines were glossy, and the mirrors are fine if you’re a five foot nine clothes horse with the right angles and planes.
at clotheshorse, n.
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Marriages Are Made in Heaven’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] There seems to be some creep hanging around Selina’s flat.
at creep, n.
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Heroin Annie’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] Outside the shop he shoved his hand into this rubbish bin, like a derro.
at dero, n.
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Stockyards at Jerilderie’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] That made three Castletons, two fakes and a dinkum.
at dinkum, n.
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Marriages Are Made in Heaven’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] I wanted to tell her that Short was vermin, that he’d used her to make dirty money and probably would again.
at dirty, adj.
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Heroin Annie’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] I got back in the car and handed Samantha a banana. ‘Drek’, she said, so I gave her some chewing gum instead.
at dreck, n.
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Luck of Clem Carter’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] Make some coffee; I see you’ve got the fixings.
at fixings, n.1
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Marriages Are Made in Heaven’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] This was his handle-with-care, this-side-up voice. I gathered Miss Hope was a hot property.
at hot property (n.) under hot, adj.
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Mother’s Boy’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] A dog barked across the street as I swung myself over the locked gate, but I toughed that out.
at tough it (out), v.
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Heroin Annie’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] [of a building] The next stop was outside a newish three-storey job with a lot of white stones to slip on and the sort of trees that have the bark peeling off them.
at job, n.2
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Stockyards at Jerilderie’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] This is all pretty coldblooded stuff—knocking the woman off, pinching the paintings.
at knock off, v.
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Mother’s Boy’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] ’A tall oman, white hair, well turned out’ [...] ‘Real lady muck’.
at Lady Muck, n.
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Marriages Are Made in Heaven’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] All bad. Stand-over man. Did some banks.
at stand-over man, n.
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Stockyards at Jerilderie’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] Anyone at home in 88? [...] Junkies. [...] You a narc?
at narc, n.
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Stockyards at Jerilderie’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] Steele was pretty nutty to begin with and the dope didn’t help.
at nutty, adj.2
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Heroin Annie’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] Sam tried to regain some of her oomph, but it was a losing battle, she was stoned and scared.
at oomph, n.
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Marriages Are Made in Heaven’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] Where are you? In some pub at the Cross, I suppose? Pissing on?
at piss, v.
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Stockyards at Jerilderie’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] [I] promised to pay for the drinks. That made it a must for Harry, who is just a bit on the short-armed side.
at have long pockets and short arms (v.) under pocket, n.
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Marriages Are Made in Heaven’ in Heroin Annie [ebook] There was a pub he used to call his local [...] Course this is a few years back, could be a poofter palace now for all I know.
at poofter palace (n.) under poofter, n.
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Heroin Annie’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] You, put the popgun over there near the telly and then go back near the door.
at popgun, n.
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Stockyards at Jerilderie’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] Rosemary and Bill came up to have a pow-wow with Susan.
at pow-wow, n.
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Marriages Are Made in Heaven’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] I could hear his harsh breathing and feel his agitation; the Rafferty’s rules style of the real hard men were becoming clear to him.
at Rafferty’s rules, n.
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Marriages Are Made in Heaven’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] Blackmailers are a low breed too, and this one had put his supposed girlfriend right in the shit.
at land someone in the shit under shit, n.
[Aus] P. Corris ‘Luck of Clem Carter’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] You’re wondering what a silvertail like Kenny was doing living in a dump like this?
at silvertail, n.
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