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[SA] H. Bloom Transvaal Episode 108: This is the biggest balls-up of a raid I ever heard of.
at balls-up, n.
[SA] H. Bloom Transvaal Episode 274: ‘Where’s that dirty, stinking son of a pig?’ he muttered. [...] ‘He’s bitched off,’ Roberts said.
at bitch off (v.) under bitch, v.
[SA] H. Bloom Transvaal Episode 51: You can get your blackbird location constables to bring them in here [...] No white police in the location. [Ibid.] 220: Now, blackbird, you know all the people in this location.
at blackbird, n.1
[SA] H. Bloom Transvaal Episode 50: When he did tell us it was too late. The donders had run away.
at donder, n.
[SA] H. Bloom Transvaal Episode 343: A lot of bloodthirsty black Kaffirs who’d murder me the first chance.
at kaffir, n.
[SA] H. Bloom Transvaal Episode 102: All right, kerels, back to the station.
at kêrel, n.
[SA] H. Bloom Transvaal Episode 15: They [i.e. black township people] called their Black Marias ‘pick-up vans’. [Ibid.] 281: Why don’t we just sling her into the pick-up and stop all this arguing?
at pick-me-up, n.
[SA] H. Bloom Transvaal Episode 157: It’s time we dealt with the shebeen queens, the prostitutes [...] the undesirable female elements.
at shebeen queen (n.) under shebeen, n.
[SA] H. Bloom Transvaal Episode 33: They are tsotsis. They rob and attack their own people. [Ibid.] 321: Now an excited crowd had gathered. They were restless and sullen-looking and some of them were drunk. They were the white town’s tsotis.
at tsotsi, n.
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