1990 S. Geason Shaved Fish 119: We’ve got to dry him out. [...] As long as he’s a drunk, he’s in danger.at dry out, v.
1990 S. Geason Shaved Fish 159: She’s got the goods on him and he’s afraid she’ll use them.at have the goods on someone (v.) under goods, n.
1990 S. Geason Shaved Fish 6: It’s a better job than Fine Cotton, Ronny, but it’s still a ring-in.at ring-in, n.
1990 S. Geason Shaved Fish 122: The only males allowed to show affection are footballers, poofters and reffos.at reffo, n.
1990 S. Geason Shaved Fish 110: Les had been good to me when I was a kid, slinging me a few bob when he had a win on the nags or the dogs.at sling, v.
1990 S. Geason Shaved Fish 5: He’ll never pay it. He’s tighter than a budgie’s bum.at tight as a crab’s arse (at sixty fathoms) (adj.) under tight, adj.
1990 S. Geason Shaved Fish 3: In glorious polaroid for posterity: Margaret Cromer, wife of leading wowser politician, tête-à-tête with notorious vice figure in a Kings Cross gambling den.at wowser, n.1