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The Devil’s Jump choose

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[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 119: I can see from down here that you’ve done beaut job.
at beaut, adj.
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 52: Herb kept belting his flask of whisky.
at belt, v.
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 98: The girl behind the counter told me the jukebox was on the blink.
at on the blink (adj.) under blink, n.1
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 29: Don’t let yourself be conned by any of those bludging tenants.
at bludge, v.
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 183: Awfully sorry for the lost time last week. Attack of the blue devils, I’m afraid.
at blue devils, n.
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 98: We can set up a network [...] There are some bodgie yanks up at Burt’s who might be in it.
at bodgie, adj.
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 203: Mid afternoon, May and cec took the bub out for a stroll.
at bub, n.3
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 116: We were stuck in those shitty trenches – and I mean shitty [...] Blokes were doing their business right there in the trench.
at do one’s business (v.) under business, n.
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 100: ‘They were all shit [...] Weren’t they?’ ‘Well, yeah, they weren’t much chop, pal.’.
at not much chop under no chop, phr.
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 170: So when I belted you yesterday [...] you could have cleaned me up.
at clean up, v.
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 121: ‘Thin about it,’ he said. ‘I certainly will, old cob.’.
at cob, n.6
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 48: ‘Bludging power workers [...] Wouldn’t work in an iron lung.’ ‘It‘s the bloody commos,’ he said. [Ibid.] 55: Give them the secret commo handshake or whatever you do.
at commo, n.
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 75: Christ, he’d be dark if he knew we were even talking about him like this.
at dark, adj.
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 27: Hell, it’s [i.e. a zoot suit] all darkie wear anyway.
at darkie, adj.
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 34: At Darlo I was made to wait in an empty room.
at Darlo, n.
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 13: The Joint Committee on dick pulling or whatever it was called.
at pull one’s dick (v.) under dick, n.1
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 28: I took the pennies out of his hand [...] ‘This one’s dished.’ He nodded. ‘They’ll come up tails more often than not.’.
at dish, v.
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 101: No one you’d know. But it’s [i.e. a record] the duck’s guts.
at duck’s guts, the (n.) under duck, n.1
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 143: The boss asked me to [...] put a bit of a scare into you. There was to be an earn in it for me.
at earner, n.
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 14: Blow me down if we didn’t teach a few slanty-eyed saber-rattlers a lesson they’ll not forget.
at slant-eyed, adj.
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 184: Weeks of farting around, and now things are beginning to happen.
at fart about (v.) under fart, v.
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 180: Now this Mealey bloke was a mad rock fisherman. Used to get around [...] all those spots the fishos like.
at fisho, n.
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 60: I can probably persuade the mob from the Glengarry Castle not to flog you.
at flog, v.
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 51: ‘What is it?’ ‘Gage [...] Texas Tea. Mexican Spinach. Maitland madness. Loco weed. Indian Hemp. Gangster. Marijuanna.’.
at gage, n.2
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 56: What’s that galah up to?
at galah, n.
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 51: ‘What is it?’ ‘Gage [...] Texas Tea. Mexican Spinach. Maitland madness. Loco weed. Indian Hemp. Gangster. Marijuanna.’.
at gangster, n.
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 94: Somewhere down the track you’ll become a give-up. They nearly all do. You can forget that code of the underworld rubbish.
at give-up, n.
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 97: Working the government stroke at Leichhardt Council might not be the worst way to end up.
at government stroke (n.) under government, n.
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 126: Jack Davey and his socialite crew might be there for some after hours grogging on.
at grog-up (n.) under grog, v.1
[Aus] (con. 1945–6) P. Doyle Devil’s Jump (2008) 11: Dancing in the park, [...] good music playing, not a copper in sight – this really is the grouse, I thought.
at grouse, the, n.
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