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A Bunch of Ratbags choose

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[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 217: This worked quite effectively and they then looked real ‘abfab’ (absolutely fabulous), another of our bodgie words. There was a terrific pull-over that had just come out lately from Sydney and boy, was this abfab!
at abfab, adj.
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 153: When yuh get a bit old and yuh can’t keep up with the younger stickers that yuh’ll be workin’ with, they’ll arsehole yuh.
at arsehole, v.
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 288: I really appreciated Frank Sinatra’s acting when he played a dope-addict trying to get the monkey off his back in the picture Man with a Golden Arm.
at get the monkey off one’s back (v.) under monkey on one’s back, n.
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 169: A ‘square’ was a society person who [...] didn’t like widgies, beer, fights, back-ups or bodgie clothes.
at back up, n.1
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 171: Baldy ain’t particular what age yah are as long as yah got dough.
at baldy, n.
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 163: We had some terrific street brawls with the dagos that the Government had started bringing out. Our boys hated these dagos and bolts [sic] that were coming out here, trying to take over our country.
at Balt, n.2
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 155: On top of this he was an ear-basher.
at ear-basher, n.
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 172: Most of the participants were small-time crooks, standover men, S.P. bookies, perverts, bashers and street-fighters.
at basher, n.1
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 45: He became violent and we got belted up.
at belt, v.
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 163: Argles hooked a kid for slinging off at Richie and calling him a Bible-basher’s son.
at bible-basher (n.) under bible, n.
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 198: I was glad I never slept with her that night. I made up my mind then always find out as much as I could about a doll if she was the town bike.
at bicycle, n.
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 138: The local rag wrote a bit about them and the next thing you know – bingo!
at bingo!, excl.
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 194: I was a bloke who didn’t like losing, especially to a rigged-up machine. That was for the birds, not me.
at bird, n.1
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 67: I think I’ll blow through now, Cookie.
at blow, v.1
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 77: What a bludge those blokes have.
at bludge, n.
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 138: I’d been bludgin’ a couple of bob around the pubs.
at bludge, v.
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 47: ‘Sit down, yer bludgin’ little dog,’ he screamed. [Ibid.] 205: I [...] started drinking the cup of tea hurriedly, so the boss would not know I was bludging.
at bludge, v.
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 44: ‘Associated Thieves’ was what they should call themselves. The poor people were poor enough without these thieving bludgers so gratefully helping them to get deeper and deeper into debt. [Ibid.] 98: So anyhow, Dave, I got even with the big Jew bludger.
at bludger, n.
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 147: ‘Get in, yuh bludger,’ swore Duke’s mate as he prodded the bull with a long metal-pointed stick.
at bludger, n.
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 199: We went down the lane and removed our jackets and commenced to blue-onward.
at blue, v.3
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 185: Besides being a vandal and a bodgie-boy I had become a fairly good lover. [Ibid.] 228: Smart guy, eh, bodge?
at bodgie, n.
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 136: The kinda haircuts youse got are square now in Sydney. Mine’s the latest bodgie haircut, Continental Style.
at bodgie, n.
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 64: Drop the bodgie two bob into his tray and shoot through real quick.
at bodgie, adj.
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 158: Quite frequently he spent the weekend in the boob and had to appear in court on the Monday.
at boob, n.1
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 39: Now that old Robbie was gone we would have to keep really sweet with this boss-bloke.
at boss, n.2
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 36: We sold it to a bottle-o and scrap-metal dealer.
at bottle-o, n.
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 226: We were all hanging out the windows, whistling up some of the bits of ‘brush’ (sheilas) that were walking along.
at brush, n.4
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 52: They all became the best of buddie-buddies.
at buddy-buddy, n.
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 39: It was a lot of bull-dust I know, but it was a lot of necessary bull-dust. [Ibid.] 189: I should have known those bludgers were only bull-dustin’.
at bulldust, n.
[Aus] W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 283: With all the numbers connected to the pills, I felt like an adding-machine gone bung.
at go bung (v.) under bung, adj.2
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