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[Aus] P. Carey Theft 181: He did not give a tinker’s damn about the opinion of the men in the vestry.
at not care a tinker’s (curse), v.
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 201: Butcher [...] would have got completely ape shit.
at apeshit, adj.
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 185: He didn’t know a rat’s arse about his father’s work.
at rat’s ass, n.
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 172: A single reffo or wog or balt.
at Balt, n.2
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 21: His old mates would barrack him from the doorway.
at barrack, v.
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 93: Ideas put up his batty by the German Bachelor.
at batty, n.2
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 75: Beauty, I thought, that’s done.
at beauty!, excl.
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 249: Now it would be gently Bentley as they removed the Magna.
at gently Bentley!, excl.
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 75: I was in no way surprised that my brother required the hair of the dog before he faced the galleries.
at hair of the dog (that bit one), n.
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 21: He had red hair when young so they called him Blue meaning red.
at bluey, n.1
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 71: My heart was racing like a two-bob watch.
at two-bob watch, n.
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 20: Even the bodgies and widgies would throw eggs at the barber’s windows.
at bodgie, n.
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 190: two four six eight bog in don’t wait.
at bog in, v.
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 135: Good boy Hugh, beauty bottler.
at bottler, n.1
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 78: We had Buckley’s chance, but I edged the ute out of the grass.
at Buckley’s, n.
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 216: I am the perfect bum boy for their client.
at bum boy (n.) under bum, n.1
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 69: All the vice squad [...] come to have a Captain Cook.
at Captain Cook, n.
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 81: He was sufficiently cashed-up so might have shouted me a real mixed grill.
at cashed up, adj.
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 108: In order to help Marlene get the cattle dogs [...] I wrenched open the filing cabinet. [Ibid.] 109: I knew the cattle dogs were the thin end of the wedge.
at cattle dog, n.2
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 238: By crikey, it was a long time between drinks.
at crikey!, excl.
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 252: Marlene was dressed [...] in baggy daggy shorts.
at daggy, adj.
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 228: You can get in trouble [...] be roared up, reported, dobbed in.
at dob (in), v.
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 22: He dropped Mr Cox after he strapped me for answering incorrectly.
at drop, v.3
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 75: He came in piss-faced drunk.
at piss-faced, adj.
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 23: Butcher Bones gave not a flying fuck about the puppy.
at flying fuck, n.
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 228: You can get in trouble [...] fuck me dead.
at fuck me dead! (excl.) under fuck me!, excl.
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 128: Paco Rabanne shoes with fuck-me heels.
at fuck-me, adj.
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 265: Butcher was completely gutted, his life-work stolen.
at gutted, adj.2
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 84: I was shickered, three sheets to the wind.
at three sheets in the wind, phr.
[Aus] P. Carey Theft 108: I interrupted Butcher on the job with Marlene.
at on the job under job, n.2
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