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[Aus] K. Gilbert Living Black 225: Mum, one of those kids at school called me a black Abo.
at abo, n.
[Aus] in K. Gilbert Living Black 300: It’s just a perk with nothing to do in between hot-air meetings! Na! Self first, self last, that’s the trouble.
at hot air, n.
[Aus] K. Gilbert Living Black 219: He can go to work same as me, you, and every Tom, Dick and Harry.
at Tom, Dick and Harry, n.
[Aus] in K. Gilbert Living Black 25: I think it’s totally un-Aboriginal and this is again how we are being got at by whites.
at get at, v.
[Aus] in K. Gilbert Living Black 100: I’m glad those boys knocked those jobs back.
at knock back, v.
[Aus] in K. Gilbert Living Black 241: Hoping that there was an old battler, an old shearing cook who’d fill your sugar-bag with tucker.
at battler (n.) under battle, v.
[Aus] in K. Gilbert Living Black 80: The teachers’d pick on us, we’d [...] go home and tell our father and he’d go round and bawl them out for being racist bastards.
at bawl out, v.1
[Aus] in K. Gilbert Living Black 262: How many of them got off? Did any of them beat it?
at beat, v.
[Aus] in K. Gilbert Living Black 174: She was very motherly towards me then and it was beaut.
at beaut, adj.
[Aus] in K. Gilbert Living Black 35: You belt him, stick it into him. [Ibid.] 303: When a kid shits on the doorstep you belt his arse and rub his nose in it.
at belt, v.
[Aus] in K. Gilbert Living Black 62: My brother’s a big head at Canberra but I just turned out a drunk.
at big head, n.1
[Aus] in K. Gilbert Living Black 165: I knew all the big smoke but still I wanted to go through the law.
at big smoke, n.
[Aus] in K. Gilbert Living Black 144: The mad house where the bloomin’ mental people are, I’ve been there.
at blooming, adj.1
[Aus] in K. Gilbert Living Black 241: Those bludging little birds. [Ibid.] 250: All they want to do is get their money and go down the town and get drunk or bludge something off somebody.
at bludge, v.
[Aus] in K. Gilbert Living Black 143: I’m a bludger. I’m a drunk. I’m a jailbird.
at bludger, n.
[Aus] in K. Gilbert Living Black 229: If he makes a blue of it, someone else’ll take over.
at blue, n.4
[Aus] K. Gilbert Living Black 62: I wound my old blue bomb up and started to drive across those plains.
at bomb, n.
[Aus] in K. Gilbert Living Black 142: Well, it broke me up.
at break up, v.
[Aus] in K. Gilbert Living Black 143: The only Aboriginal is the full-blood Aboriginal, eh? I’m what you call a bastard. A breed. I’m a half-caste.
at breed, n.
[Aus] K. Gilbert Living Black 62: He can be a millionaire or stony broke but they’re all the same ... one drink and they’re back in the gutter.
at stone broke, adj.
[Aus] in K. Gilbert Living Black 233: Brother, gee I like to be like you.
at brother, n.
[Aus] in K. Gilbert Living Black 224: Anybody with a buck in his pocket he couldn’t care less about.
at buck, n.3
[Aus] in K. Gilbert Living Black 289: Managers have buggered all the disciplines, the old laws.
at bugger, v.2
[Aus] in K. Gilbert Living Black 289: So you say, ‘Oh, well, bugger it, that’s it,’ you know?
at bugger it!, excl.
[Aus] in K. Gilbert Living Black 18: The Woodeward thing is buggering the whole tribal system up to hell.
at bugger up, v.
[Aus] in K. Gilbert Living Black 35: She’s got this sort of grinning, ‘Yus can all go to buggery’ attitude, you know?
at go to buggery! (excl.) under buggery, n.
[Aus] in K. Gilbert Living Black 219: It’ll hold at least seventy ton of fish. That’s no bulldust; the Fisheries supplied it to ’em.
at bulldust, n.
[Aus] in K. Gilbert Living Black 289: They can’t just bump you off for nothing anymore, see?
at bump (off), v.
[Aus] in K. Gilbert Living Black 82: Every holidays we had, we always went back to my grandparents, went bush, digging honey-ants and barley.
at go bush (v.) under bush, n.1
[Aus] in K. Gilbert Living Black 128: She busted him up when he was off work.
at bust someone up (v.) under bust, v.1
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