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[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] You brought me out in the appalling conveyance, this hot rod, for sweet bugger all.
at bugger all, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] He was wearing a T-shirt saying Even the Short Arm of the Law is Long.
at short arm, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] Bitch wanted Frank done. In it over her tits.
at up to one’s armpits under armpit, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] He knew his stuff, he’d had a real arse-kicking apprencticeship.
at arse-kicker (n.) under arse, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] The bastard’s last chance is to arselick the boys at the cemetery.
at arse-lick, v.
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] He was a copper. That didn’t last. Reckons he resigned. I reckon they give him the arse.
at give someone the arse under arse, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] Potholes like bomb thingies [...] Can’t see the bastards. Arse over kettle about seven times.
at arse/ass over teakettle under arse, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] Same problem them if there’s two of you or fifty-two testosterone-crazed arseheads with guns.
at asshead, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] This hunk, this absolute babe, has come into my life.
at babe, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] ‘He knows how the Armits fit. He’ll settle them, take the push off’ [...] ‘Bren got the fucking vaguest what it costs to get the Armits off my back?’.
at get off someone’s back (v.) under back, n.1
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] I’d put up with being bashed about. Don’t know why.
at bash, v.
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] ‘What’s Gary do?’ ‘Beats me’.
at beats me! (excl.) under beat, v.
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] Brendan’s going down big time.
at big-time, adv.
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] Nicotine, dope, hash, barbiturates, speed, acid, smack, Columbian marching powder [...] all entered the massive frame by some route.
at Bolivian marching powder, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] You find out a bit about the animal [...] whether he wants to be the boss horse.
at boss, adj.
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] Bill says to her, brassy bugger, he says, ‘Comin to the football tomorrow?’.
at brassy, adj.
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] [of a house] ‘Own your house?’ ‘Buggered old place, fetch a bit though’.
at buggered, adj.2
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] Jack [...] a piece of no-bullshit advice. You don’t want to be involved.
at no-bullshit (adj.) under bullshit, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] He had a job with some transport bunch.
at bunch, n.1
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] Looks like a burg gone wrong [...] No signs of struggle.
at burg, n.2
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] According to these heroes, Gary was consorting with some very bad people, should have been busted much earlier.
at bust, v.1
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] Tread the button and, with one smooth kick of power, leave the other person behind.
at button, n.1
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] I’ve been feeling pretty chipper. Post-orgasmically chipper.
at chipper, adj.
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] Stable wants his clangers on a plate.
at clanger, n.1
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] Alan says you thought the potato wasn’t entirely clean.
at clean potato (n.) under clean, adj.
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] Canetti was the only cleanskin we had.
at cleanskin, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] This clown here, knows nothin about the Sainters.
at clown, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] Then there was the violence. And the coke. He was just barely in control.
at coke, n.1
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] Not so much out of the square [...] as out of your cotton-picking mind.
at cotton-picking, adj.
[Aus] P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] These two Poms run it, trained by Vidal Sassoon, all that crap.
at crap, n.1
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