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Adventures of a mounted trooper in the Australian constabulary choose

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[Aus] W. Burrows Adventures of a Mounted Trooper 90: The kangaroo [...] is the largest of all the wild animals; some full grown ‘old men’ or ‘boomers’.
at boomer, n.1
[Aus] W. Burrows Adventures of a Mounted Trooper 185: The crew were not sorry to see the last boat-load [of Chinese] take their departure, which they did with cries of ‘chin-chin’ which means ‘good-bye’ and ‘thank you’.
at chin-chin!, excl.
[Aus] W. Burrows Adventures of a Mounted Trooper 101: A young colonist [...] was in the habit of giving the blacks a feed of ‘jump-up’ [...] this stuff consists of flour and water boiled into a paste, and sugar put into it, and from the bubbles rising to the surface when boiling, they call it ‘jump-up’.
at jump-up, n.
[Aus] W. Burrows Adventures of a Mounted Trooper 90: The kangaroo [...] is the largest of all the wild animals; some full grown ‘old men’ or ‘boomers’.
at old man, n.
[Aus] W. Burrows Adventures of a Mounted Trooper 53: There they are with their [...] well greased thieves’ curls, or, as some of the flash gentry call them, ‘Newgate knockers’.
at Newgate knocker (n.) under Newgate, n.
[Aus] W. Burrows Adventures of a Mounted Trooper 54: [They are] discussing together the case of their ‘pal’.
at pal, n.
[Aus] W. Burrows Adventures of a Mounted Trooper 83: They only gib it picaninny sifting.
at piccaninny, adj.
[Aus] W. Burrows Adventures of a Mounted Trooper 54: The female friends [...] are also engaged in considering [...] whether poor Bill, Tom, or Harry will be ‘pinched’ or ‘turned up’.
at pinch, v.
[Aus] W. Burrows Adventures of a Mounted Trooper 54: The female friends [...] are also engaged in considering [...] whether poor Bill, Tom, or Harry will be ‘pinched’ or ‘turned up.’.
at turn up, v.2
[Aus] W. Burrows Adventures of a Mounted Trooper 83: The missionaries yabber plenty.
at yabber, v.
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