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The Drum: Australian Character and Slang choose

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[Aus] Baker Drum.
at Africa speaks, n.
[Aus] Baker Drum.
at African, n.
[Aus] Baker Drum.
at drunk as Chloe, adj.
[Aus] Baker Drum.
at ...a (wet) hen under silly as…, adj.
[Aus] Baker Drum.
at barmy as a bandicoot (adj.) under barmy, adj.
[Aus] Baker Drum.
at bat, n.2
[Aus] Baker Drum.
at belt, n.
[Aus] Baker Drum.
at belt, n.
[Aus] Baker Drum.
at big twist (n.) under big, adj.
[Aus] Baker Drum 126: There is [...] a verbal sense of big note, meaning to exaggerate one’s wealth.
at big-note, v.
[Aus] Baker Drum 126: big note man. – A wealthy person.
at big note man, n.
[Aus] Baker Drum 92: Bomb v., to dope a racehorse.
at bomb, v.1
[Aus] Baker Drum.
at bridge, n.
[Aus] Baker Drum.
at bunk, v.5
[Aus] Baker Drum.
at bush carpenter (n.) under bush, adj.1
[Aus] Baker Drum.
at awkward as a Chow on a bike under Chow, n.
[Aus] Baker Drum.
at who’s milking this cow? under cow, n.1
[Aus] Baker Drum.
at fair crack of the whip, n.
[Aus] Baker Drum.
at put on a crumb act (v.) under crum, n.
[Aus] Baker Drum.
at bow the crumpet (v.) under crumpet, n.
[Aus] Baker Drum.
at posso-de-luxe, n.
[Aus] Baker Drum 105: Dob in, to betray, to focus blame on another; esp. to dob someone in.
at dob (in), v.
[Aus] Baker Drum viii. 61: ‘Nong’ (or the duplicated form ‘nong-nong’) was equivalent not only to dill, but also to drube, dope, and drongo.
at droob, n.2
[Aus] Baker Drum.
at drop the bucket (v.) under drop, v.1
[Aus] Baker Drum.
at drover’s guide (n.) under drover, n.
[Aus] Baker Drum.
at dud (up) (v.) under dud, v.2
[Aus] Baker Drum.
at do on one’s ear (v.) under ear, n.1
[Aus] Baker Drum.
at on one’s ear under ear, n.1
[Aus] Baker Drum.
at flatite, n.
[Aus] Baker Drum.
at fly-swisher stew (n.) under fly, n.3
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