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[Aus] F.J. Hardy Power Without Glory 444: You are playing the public for suckers. And you get away with it, because you have made sugar-bags of the men who should expose you.
at sugar-bag, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Power Without Glory 32: The ‘bible bashers’ [...] wrote to the press demanding action against the gambling mania.
at bible-basher (n.) under bible, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Power without Glory 45: She’s a bonzarina shiela, like a colleen from old Ireland. She’ll make a cosy little bedmate for some lucky bloke one of these days.
at bonzarina, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Power without Glory 255: ‘You be quiet, you cold-footer,’ an old !ady remarked patriotically.
at cold footer (n.) under cold, adj.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Power Without Glory 110: John West said contemptuously: ‘Got the jellies again, have you, Mr. Joe?’.
at jellies, the, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Power Without Glory 80: You can’t come in here! [...] ’Cos we don’t have police-pimps about ’ere, that’s why. You Stacey, and you’re a bloody nark.
at nark, n.1
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Power Without Glory 70: They evaded your nit-keepers in a most ingenious manner.
at nit-keeper (n.) under nit!, excl.2
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Power Without Glory 99: ’Cos we don’t have police-pimps about ’ere, that’s why. You Stacey, and you’re a bloody nark.
at police pimp (n.) under police, n.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Power Without Glory 41: A ryebuck bloke is Jack West. One of the best.
at ryebuck, adj.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Power Without Glory 23: West was quite sure that Mick O’Connell and Piggy were ‘tickling the peter’ : he suspected they were failing to record and settle for some losing bets.
at tickle the peter (v.) under tickle, v.
[Aus] F.J. Hardy Power Without Glory 33: Police! Everyone out! The bloody wallopers are on their way!
at walloper, n.1
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