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[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 55: Larry, you little bitch, you little bitch, there’s time to root you four hundred times before the bell’.
at bitch, n.1
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay (1974) 63: He didn’t lag on -57 and -16 [...] He could see the shiv very clearly.
at lag, v.2
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay (1974) 63: He didn’t lag on -57 and -16 [...] He could see the shiv very clearly.
at shiv, n.
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 70: You think they were really something, don’t you? Really tough, really animal.
at animal, adj.
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 33: In The Bay, the screws don’t allow queens to wear make-up.
at Bay, the, n.
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 43: Someone who keeps doing the same naughty really bugs the beaks.
at beak, n.1
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 41: The dees looked at the book [...] ‘Likely bodgie.’ ‘Yep.’.
at bodgie, n.
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 56: No worries about jack in this one. A virgin, no worries.
at jack (in the box), n.
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 109: Now as the bumfluff darkens under my chin, I hate the thought of whiskers.
at bum-fluff, n.
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 31: The big losers in prison sexual politik are the ‘cats,’ who will not accept feminine status, but who are weak and so are raped, or coerced into cock-sucking.
at cat, n.1
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 46: A chat who smelt of white lady swilled and puked. [Ibid.] 99: In New South Wales prison argot, it means both ‘louse’ and a certain type of prisoner. A ‘chat’ is a social incompetent, though not necessarily drunk.
at chat, n.4
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 99: Orwell gives ‘chat’ as a term for ‘louse’ [...] In New South Wales prison argot, it means both ‘louse’ and a certain type of prisoner.
at chats, n.2
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 61: The morning after Larry Glaister lost his cherry, the screw held him in the peter.
at cherry, n.1
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 30: Maintenance prisoners, by the way, get good jobs on the farm – outside the prison and real crims, who are never allowed outside the brick walls, despise them, and call them ‘cunt-starvers’. [Ibid.] 81: All the short-timers and riff-raff who would and did do anything – local crims, cunt-starvers, wild-eyed chats, yahoos.
at cunt-starver (n.) under cunt, n.
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 41: The dees looked at the book.
at D, n.2
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 54: He laid on the bed on his back and -57 stood over him and cracked a fat, and said, ‘Suck this’.
at crack a fat (v.) under fat, n.
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 75: You know what you are bloody good for? A finger-fuck! That’s all!
at finger fuck, n.
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 77: A new screw, a fuckwit, thought he saw something pass between the two prisoners.
at fuckwit, n.
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 53: ‘You got any grouse?’ [...] ‘You bring any smokes with you?’.
at grouse, n.3
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 104: Watch the speedo. / Plant your foot until the big V8 starts to mainline juice.
at juice, n.1
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 41: ‘Thought you were a kiwi.’ [...] Oh yeah, the kiwi kid, never saw him before, just a camp sort of kid.
at kiwi, n.
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 65: What’s your lagging?
at lagging, n.
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 104: Watch the speedo. / Plant your foot until the big V8 starts to mainline juice.
at mainline, v.
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay (1974) 46: There were fourteen men inside the meat wagon.
at meat wagon (n.) under meat, n.
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 43: Someone who keeps doing the same naughty really bugs the beaks.
at naughty, n.
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 81: Local crims, cunt-starvers, wild-eyed chats, yahoos [...] all these odd bods were armed with woodbreaking equipment.
at odd bod (n.) under odd, adj.
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 20: Helm’s strine shifted into a put-on pommie drawl: ‘My dear fellow’.
at put-on, adj.
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 71: The one-out peters of Maitland Gaol are plumbed.
at one out, adj.
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 80: The Justice gave Glaister 24 hours in the black peter.
at black peter (n.) under peter, n.3
[Aus] Adamson & Hanford Zimmer’s Essay 51: The peter was fourteen foot deep, seven wide, ten high.
at peter, n.3
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