1984 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.
1984 P. Corris ‘Stockyards at Jerilderie’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] ‘Who is he?’ ‘Tommy Gibbons. Bad news’.at bad news, n.
1984 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.
1984 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.
1984 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
1984 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.
1984 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.
1984 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.
1984 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.
1984 P. Corris ‘Stockyards at Jerilderie’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] That made three Castletons, two fakes and a dinkum.at dinkum, n.
1984 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.
1984 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.
1984 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
1984 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.
1984 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.
1984 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
1984 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.
1984 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.
1984 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.
1984 P. Corris ‘Stockyards at Jerilderie’ in Heroin Annie [e-book] Anyone at home in 88? [...] Junkies. [...] You a narc?at narc, n.
1984 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
1984 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.
1984 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.
1984 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.
1984 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.
1984 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.
1984 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.
1984 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.
1984 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.
1984 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.