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[Aus] L. Davies Candy 172: Candy couldn’t do a trick sick like this.
at turn a trick, v.2
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 4: What I get from hammer is a kind of deep comfort.
at hammer and tack, n.
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 119: I wore a suit and thought I looked like the ant’s pants.
at ant’s pants, n.
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 45: We were pigs in shit, the three of us.
at ...a pig in shit under happy as..., adj.
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 8: It’s [i.e. a brand of heroin] alkaline, and you could say rough as guts.
at ...guts under rough as..., adj.
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 4: She watched me bang up a few times.
at bang up, v.1
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 72: If you weigh a given amount of cocaine before and after basing it, you can work out its purity.
at base, v.2
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 77: Your cocaine is 73% pure. That’s my job done. Apart from beam me up, Scotty.
at beam me up, Scotty!, excl.
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 33: There was a time back then, before we finally succumbed to the Beast, when we would regularly try to stop.
at beast, n.
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 8: I want to have a nice blast, and she’s been using for almost a week, so I make it a good amount.
at blast, n.1
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 46: We jumped in the car, an old bomb Len had given us.
at bomb, n.
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 104: Candy was the steady income, the bottom line, and I was on special projects.
at bottom line, n.
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 22: T-Bar’s Sri Lankan brown was still in abundant supply.
at Sri Lankan brown, n.
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 196: Let’s say twenty-five bucks for the three packets.
at buck, n.3
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 36: Buckley’s chance, mate. Buckley’s. There’s nothing open now.
at Buckley’s, n.
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 22: He was the bud man, the gardener.
at budman (n.) under bud, n.2
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 26: It began to seem daunting. I hadn’t been expecting so much bush bashing.
at bush-bash (v.) under bush, n.1
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 76: The cocaine hydrochloride [...] was now becoming cocaine base, or freebase, or candy rock, or crack.
at candy rock (n.) under candy, n.
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 138: These women, they want muscle chuds, don’t they. Vogue magazine-type guys.
at chud, n.1
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 143: As it was, the casualty doctor was cluey.
at cluey, adj.
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 33: The coming down was hard. When is it ever not?
at come down, v.3
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 24: We pulled some cones and I really could have done with a big sleep.
at cone, n.
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 193: Five hundred bucks, which included three lessons and the contents of those three cooks.
at cook, n.1
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 73: Tucker [...] didn’t actually know how to cook it [i.e. cocaine] up.
at cook up, v.
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 195: The cooking became a meticulous routine: breaking open the capsules (‘shelling the peas’), mixing the powder with water, extracting the codeine with a vacuum aspirator and throwing out the paracetomol, separating the codeine from the water with dichloromethane, then evaporating the dichloromethane and dissolving the pure codeine in a re-agent, the heating of which resulted in a morphine freebase.
at cooking, n.
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 34: We could go up to the Cross and check out the nightlife.
at Cross, the, n.
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 155: ‘Cuff him,’ he said. I walked handcuffed and flanked through Bourke Street Mall to the paddy wagon.
at cuff, v.2
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 12: Just enough dope to scrape by, deals from a friend of a friend.
at deal, n.1
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 137: What do I do all day? Listen to this, dickfuck.
at dick-fuck (n.) under dick, n.1
[Aus] L. Davies Candy 80: Cocaine made dickheads into bigger, louder dickheads.
at dickhead, n.
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