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The Jackaroos choose

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[UK] J. Bowes Jackaroos 125: There’s some dilly-bags hanging on that bough.
at dilly-bag, n.
[UK] J. Bowes Jackaroos 240: You’re crack sure, Aleck?
at crack, adv.
[UK] J. Bowes Jackaroos 74: There’s a good deal of duffing going on. [...] Old Tom Brown of Yucadoo reckons he lost all out of five hundred last year.
at duff, v.1
[UK] J. Bowes Jackaroos 186: By George, this is a flattener! This’ll be another knock at the boss.
at flattener, n.
[UK] J. Bowes Jackaroos 238: Is there a jackshay in our camp, or at the dam camp?
at jack shea, n.
[UK] J. Bowes Jackaroos 200: This was the preliminary job, which the jackaroos and the blackboys were to undertake.
at jackaroo, n.
[UK] J. Bowes Jackaroos 239: Oh, I’m not feeling ratty over that.
at ratty, adj.
[UK] J. Bowes Jackaroos 28: The tomahawk by all means. [...] You get the tommy and I’ll collar the billy.
at tommy, n.6
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