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[Aus] J. Davis Dreamers 116: I saw the youngest one down the car park and she was drunk, drunk as a monkey.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[Aus] J. Davis Dreamers 105: They was real bloody dinkum out and out bludgers.
at out-and-out, adj.
[Aus] J. Davis Dreamers 84: Arse-lickin’ I call it, you’re just scareda gettin’ belted up.
at arse-licking (n.) under arse-lick, v.
[Aus] J. Davis Dreamers 74: Sharing the last of the bacca, / some with clay pipes / and others rolling.
at bacca, n.
[Aus] J. Davis Dreamers 120: God bless you, missus. Hey! Big boss! You up there! You listenin’?
at big boss, the, n.
[Aus] J. Davis Dreamers 83: Sandy was as tough as an old boomer.
at boomer, n.1
[Aus] J. Davis Dreamers 117: You’ve had a pretty fair crack of the whip and it’s time I started puttin’ my foot down.
at fair crack of the whip, n.
[Aus] J. Davis Dreamers 89: You fuckin’ sly dingo bastard!
at dingo, n.
[Aus] J. Davis Dreamers 86: Git up an’ show ’im a real middar. Go on, oldy, a real dinkum yahllarah.
at dinkum, adj.
[Aus] J. Davis Dreamers 80: eli: Bastard deserved all he got. peter: Yeah, an’ I give it to him, flattened him.
at flatten, v.
[Aus] J. Davis Dreamers 83: Look, Nyoongahs buy their grog from Wetjalas, they break the law and they git jugged by Wetjalas.
at jugged, adj.
[Aus] J. Davis Dreamers 78: roy: Hope they don’t come round lookin’ for boondah for petrol to git ’ome. [...] peter: Don’t you know how to milk a bowser?
at milk, v.
[Aus] J. Davis Dreamers 83: Freeo? What’s wrong with Fremantle Gaol?
at -o, sfx
[Aus] J. Davis Dreamers 84: ’Ere y’ are, oldy, git that inta yuh.
at oldie, n.
[Aus] J. Davis Dreamers 129: I can reef your money off you any day, mate.
at reef, v.1
[Aus] J. Davis Dreamers 75: Shut yer trap both of yer.
at shut one’s trap (v.) under trap, n.1
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