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[Aus] P. Temple Truth 174: ‘Got replacements?’ said Villani. ‘Pope Catholic?’ said the offsider.
at does a bear shit in the woods? Is the pope (a) Catholic?, phr.
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 277: ‘Sad boy, the Lovey Dovey,’ said Burgess. ‘Not a mixer. The Abo chip’.
at abo, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 53: Chief Commissioner David Gillam, the so-called new broom, done nothing except sweep the dirt around and under the carpet. Achieved sweet fanny.
at sweet Fanny Adams, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 220: In that instant, Villani knew that Dove was not a mistake. He was a smart aleck but he was not a mistake.
at smart aleck, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 180: Got fuckall to do with you, okay?
at fuck all, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 265: He couldn’t bear the look, the silence, he kept amping up his rubbish chatter, eyes darting.
at amp up (v.) under amp, v.
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 195: Then it’s back to the captain’s cabin for a fucking G and T.
at g. and t., n.
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 56: Ivan’s an animal [...] Smack addict and an animal.
at animal, n.1
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 98: Bob Villani's Army life, had he taken orders from dickheads and arselickers like this man?
at arse-licker (n.) under arse-lick, v.
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 265: His bit of dumb teenage weathergirl arse.
at arse, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 248: A man’s thick white towelling gown. The property of the mystical lawyer arse from Byron Bay?
at arse, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 226: Don’t look at me. We get the arse from Defence but somebody tells Ruskin about this killing.
at arse, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 65: Bloody Colby’s arsier every time I see him.
at arsey, adj.2
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 369: ‘Say police as caringly as possible. Like a blessing.’ ‘Jeez, that’s a big ask’.
at big ask (n.) under ask, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 77: He’s on his arsebone in the Bekaa Valley, snorting Cloud Nine.
at assbone (n.) under ass, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 132: In the kickarse voice Villani heard the boy who never had a father, only a photograph.
at kick-ass, adj.
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 82: Vickery and a cop called Gary Plaice almost killed a half-arsed little robber called Ivanovich.
at half-assed, adj.
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 84: We don’t get smart here, we’ll know what arsefucked by a whole footy team feels like.
at assfuck, v.
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 321: So he says, get the police and she knows about police, she goes ballistic, no, no, no.
at go ballistic (v.) under ballistic, adj.
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 56: Ivan’s an animal [...] shot the customer at Westpac at Garden City in March, no reason at all. There’s other bashings, one woman’s got brain damage, can’t speak.
at bashing, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 291: On any Friday, an army of couriers hand-delivered snort, bazooka [...] to bankers, brokers, lawyers, accountants [etc.].
at bazooka, n.1
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 318: ‘Your car [...] That’s the black Beemer. Involved in a collision in La Trobe Street.
at Beamer, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 118: Luke was another matter. His mother was a bike called Ellen. Bob Villani bunned her in Darwin.
at bicycle, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 59: Stuff like this, the media blowies on you, bloody pollies pestering, the ordinary work goes to hell.
at blowie, n.1
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 104: For Bob, not getting things right was bludging, slackarse behaviour, not paying attention.
at bludge, v.
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 35: He’s a boofhead [...] Always been one.
at boofhead, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 318: ‘Who’s this smartarse boong?’ said Hanlon. ‘Can’t get white people to join you cunts now?’.
at boong, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 332: Twenty minutes later he had his back against a wall in a lane off Sydney Road, listening to two braindeads come out of the roof.
at braindead, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 214: Wannt some brkkie? Got eggs from down the road.
at brekkie, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Truth 77: A bloke in Brissie [...] they flog him with barbwire and then they put him on a massive gas barbie.
at Bris, n.
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