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[SA] B. Simon Hey, Listen ... in Gray Market Plays (1986) 131: Whoever’s the lucky winner of our Miss South Africa contest [...] she’s going to be right in the firing line! Not only will she have to ward off the stage-door Johnnies [etc.].
at stage-door johnnie, n.
[SA] B. Simon Hey, Listen ... in Gray Market Plays (1986) 113: I’ll fucken kick you down moer and gone that’s what I’ll do.
at moer, n.
[SA] Cooke, Honeyman & Keogh This is for Keeps in Gray Market Plays (1986) 34: Nice name for a group, hey. Kaffirboeties.
at kaffirboetie, n.
[SA] V. Cooke et al. in Gray Market Plays 34: They can turn South Africa into another Zimbabwe where black people can do what they like. Murder old men [...] get drunk, smoke dagga, and they don’t go to jail because they’re floppies.
at floppy, n.
[SA] J. Whyle in Gray Market Plays 173 : We lived in a large bungalow where we were liable to unofficial initiation by the oumanne. [Ibid.] 175: I had nearly done a year in the army and was due for a seven-day pass. The roofie ouman tension seemed to have abated and we were almost on friendly terms [DSAE].
at ouman, n.
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