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[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 1 Oct. 🌐 She had this private school accent, and was tarted up like an airhead game show hostess.
at airhead, adj.
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 1 Oct. 🌐 Good doses of unemployment and starvation wages will make us a nation of arse-lickers.
at arse-licker (n.) under arse-lick, v.
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 1 Oct. 🌐 But the workers’ town of Newcastle decided to throw a spanner into what passes for Howard’s works by deciding to kick, rather than lick, arse.
at kick ass, v.
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 1 Oct. 🌐 John Howard-Cunningham grabbed the little Hawke ball without blanching and ran to billy-o with it.
at billy-o, n.
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 1 Oct. 🌐 That big problem, according to Hawke, was that workers were getting too big a slice of the economic cake and the capos were getting too little.
at capo, n.
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 1 Oct. 🌐 I am sure that The Bash is not the only true league fan who does not want to see a unified comp bled dry by Nudes Unlimited.
at comp, n.
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 1 Oct. 🌐 Super Leek, despite its huge grand final attendance, was a floperoonie in its first year.
at -eroonie, sfx
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 1 Oct. 🌐 No, you can’t talk to ‘em. Like Newcastle, you just gotta hang in there and show ‘em in the end.
at hang in, v.
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 1 Oct. 🌐 At least some federal public servants were thinking straight when they stuck it to Howard by opening up the touted travel rorts affair.
at stick it to (v.) under stick it, v.
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 1 Oct. 🌐 A northside hostilery which will remain nameless because they took all my money and are not getting any free kicks to boot.
at kick, n.5
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 1 Oct. 🌐 At least some federal public servants were thinking straight when they stuck it to Howard by opening up the touted travel rorts affair.
at rort, n.2
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 1 Oct. 🌐 They’re talking seagreen Ferraris when we’re spruiking birdshit green Holdens.
at spruik, v.
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 1 Oct. 🌐 You’d [...] drink in the pub on Friday nights till the wife or girlfriend – or when totally sprung, both – would drag you out.
at sprung, adj.
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 1 Oct. 🌐 The two Conservative prime ministers who followed Hawke like proper turd-strangling Tories did not change a comma of the Hawke edict.
at turd-strangling, adj.
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 1 Oct. 🌐 I was tonguing for a drink and the closest place was this wine bar/bistro/speak/craphouse.
at tonguing for under tongue, v.
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 9:5 18 Dec. 🌐 And as he moved fluently to the bowling crease, I provocatively discarded my gloves, protector and pads, unzipped the whites and plopped the plums up and out of the underdaks so they looked like a startled bull frog peering over a log.
at underdaks, n.
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 24 Feb. 🌐 Gosh, is it any wonder why the young un’s are turning up to the sissy aerial ping pong played by poofs in tight pants!
at aerial pingpong, n.
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 24 Feb. 🌐 Poor former Bananabender Benny is homesick and wants to leave New South Wailes [sic].
at banana bender (n.) under banana, n.
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 16 Aug. 🌐 The bennies did us old hands the world of good because more often than not we were carrying a niggling hangover into the game.
at benny, n.4
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 24 Feb. 🌐 But there’s a few pisspot bimbo sports journos who would give Laurie in La La Land a real run for his money.
at bimbo, adj.
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 28 Jan. 🌐 It seems that Wigan went down to the local cash converters and pawned everything they owned [...] If the club’s prepared for that big a blowout, it would be selfish of Wendell not to get in for his chop while the money lasts.
at blow-out, n.1
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 16 Aug. 🌐 I just felt that having a spew at halftime and bludging for a third of the game on the blind wing were integral parts of the complete game plan.
at bludge, v.
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 24 Feb. 🌐 They should rename it the Brownnose Medal and give it to whoever comes out with the most idiotic statement of the season.
at brown nose, n.
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 28 Jan. 🌐 If the club’s prepared for that big a blowout, it would be selfish of Wendell not to get in for his chop while the money lasts.
at chop, n.1
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 7 Jan. 🌐 The Bash still fields disbelief from doubting Thomasinas about [...] coaches feeding young recruits aspirin and telling the new chums they are benzedrine.
at new chum, n.
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 16 Aug. 🌐 When they were sticking those syringes full of morphine derivatives up the cheeks of your clacker [...] what did you think it was?
at clacker, n.3
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 7 Jan. 🌐 Well, cobblers to you, me maties.
at cobblers!, excl.
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 16 Aug. 🌐 We have grown accustomed to the faces of rugby league spreading bullshit thicker than a National Party supporter growing a crop of grass. But deadset, just how much room is there up Kneel WitLacker’s arse?
at dead set, phr.
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 24 Feb. 🌐 I’m willing to give Matt Sears the full drum.
at drum, n.6
[Aus] Bug (Aus.) 16 Aug. 🌐 Every game, Smokey was bombed to the eyeballs on pot.
at to the eyeballs (adv.) under eyeball, n.2
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