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The Best of Crump choose

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[NZ] B. Crump ‘One of Us’ in Best of Barry Crump (1974) 142: And blow me down if we don’t fly to Auckland that very afternoon.
at blow me down!, excl.
[NZ] B. Crump ‘One of Us’ in Best of Barry Crump (1974) 134: He [...] poured him a dirty glass of home-brew.
at brew, n.
[NZ] B. Crump ‘One of Us’ in Best of Barry Crump (1974) 141: I think it’s time we dragged our hook, Sam.
at drag one’s hook (v.) under drag, v.1
[NZ] B. Crump ‘One of Us’ in Best of Barry Crump (1974) 134: If yer can’t take yer grog, lay orf it a bit. The beer won’t do yer any ’arm but keep orf the top shelf and leave the plonk and the meths alone.
at grog, n.1
[NZ] B. Crump ‘One of Us’ in Best of Barry Crump (1974) 119: He got his clod-hoppers hooked up in the clothes-prop and came another gutser.
at gutser, n.2
[NZ] B. Crump ‘One of Us’ Best of Barry Crump (1974) 141: ‘I’m a starter,’ says I, ‘but we’ll have to pick up a bit of hay from somewhere. I’ve only got a quid left.’.
at hay, n.
[NZ] B. Crump ‘One of Us’ in Best of Barry Crump (1974) 137: We might just hock a feed here, if we’re lucky.
at hock, v.1
[NZ] B. Crump ‘One of Us’ in Best of Barry Crump (1974) 134: He [...] jacked him up a meal of sorts.
at jack up, v.3
[NZ] B. Crump ‘One of Us’ in Best of Barry Crump (1974) 132: Toddy’s old man and himself as privates in lemon-squeezer hats, talking all the time about World War I.
at lemon-squeezer (n.) under lemon, n.
[NZ] B. Crump ‘One of Us’ in Best of Barry Crump (1974) 120: ‘Did they put him up?’ ‘No, they didn’t put him up [...] But Dan did a lot of free fencing for that bloke. Took him about six months work off the price of the cattle he’d knocked off.’.
at put up, v.
[NZ] B. Crump ‘One of Us’ in Best of Barry Crump (1974) 142: He didn’t even tell them he was a detective, he just let them tell each other and we were quids in.
at quids in under quid, n.
[NZ] B. Crump ‘One of Us’ Best of Barry Crump (1974) 142: You’d have gone for a skate if they’d caught you out.
at go for a skate (v.) under skate, n.
[NZ] B. Crump ‘One of Us’ in Best of Barry Crump (1974) 141: We’ll have to give him a try – we’re skinned!
at skinned, adj.
[NZ] B. Crump ‘One of Us’ in Best of Barry Crump (1974) 141: ‘I’m a starter,’ says I, ‘but we’ll have to pick up a bit of hay from somewhere. I’ve only got a quid left.’.
at starter, n.2
[NZ] B. Crump ‘One of Us’ in Best of Barry Crump (1974) 141: We lived like lords for three months and hardly did a tap of work.
at tap, n.1
[NZ] B. Crump ‘Here And There’ in Best of Barry Crump (1974) 171: I don’t suppose we can blame him for doing his bun.
at do one’s bun (v.) under bun, n.3
[NZ] B. Crump ‘Scrapwaggon’ in Best of Barry Crump (1974) 196: ‘Make you look a proper joe, wouldn’t it,’ observed Watcher.
at joe (hunt), n.
[NZ] B. Crump ‘Scrapwaggon’ in Best of Barry Crump (1974) 191: Watcher [...] got out a bottle of dry sherry. He put it on the table. ‘Here, rip a bit of that into you.’.
at rip into (v.) under rip, v.
[NZ] B. Crump ‘Here And There’ in Best of Barry Crump (1974) 173: That sewed us up good and proper.
at sew up, v.
[NZ] B. Crump ‘One of Us’ Best of Barry Crump (1974) 134: He [...] poured him a dirty glass of home-brew. ‘Guaranteed to sew yer up before yer kin git through a second bottle.’.
at sew up, v.
[NZ] B. Crump ‘A Good Keen Girl’ in Best of Barry Crump (1974) 234: They bagged one duck.
at bag, v.
[NZ] B. Crump ‘A Good Keen Girl’ in Best of Barry Crump (1974) 239: And in all that time have you ever known me put you crook?
at put someone crook with (v.) under crook, adj.
[NZ] B. Crump ‘A Good Keen Girl’ in Best of Barry Crump (1974) 238: Betty’ll want to check her over to make sure you haven’t got yourself tied up with a crookie.
at crookie, n.
[NZ] B. Crump ‘A Good Keen Girl’ in Best of Barry Crump (1974) 241: ‘How’s she going, Kersey?’ ‘How’s what going?’ ‘Well, how’s married life treating you?’.
at how’s it going?, phr.
[NZ] B. Crump ‘A Good Keen Girl’ Best of Barry Crump (1974) 244: You’d never catch me volunteering [...] you can put a ring around that lot. I’d turn conchy first.
at put a ring around (v.) under ring, n.
[NZ] B. Crump ‘A Good Keen Girl’ in Best of Barry Crump (1974) 244: Take that Roman sheila, for example, Cleopatra.
at sheila, n.1
[NZ] B. Crump ‘A Good Keen Girl’ in Best of Barry Crump (1974) 241: I had to hand it to Bert [...] when it came to handling women he certainly had me whacked.
at whacked, adj.
[NZ] B. Crump ‘Bastards I Have Met’ in Best of Barry Crump (1974) 254: Some of his mates used to swear that he was A.W.O.L. for more of the time than he was there.
at A.W.O.L., adj.
[NZ] B. Crump ‘Bastards I Have Met’ in Best of Barry Crump (1974) 255: They’d finally found him shoeing a horse before he left for a mate of his who had a crook back.
at crook, adj.
[NZ] B. Crump ‘Bastards I Have Met’ in Best of Barry Crump (1974) 266: It was hard at first to believe it wasn’t some kind of act he was putting on, but no, it was the dinkum oil all right.
at dinkum oil, n.
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