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[Aus] Sporting Globe (Melbourne) 26 July 4/4: [heading] ‘Up There, Cazaly!’ / Former Victorian Star Will Play With Tasmania.
at up there Cazaly!, excl.
[US] Sporting Globe (Melbourne) 2 Jan. 3/7: [ref. to US] In New York, he used to delight in drawing the unfortunates out into the woods for the well-known snipe hunt.
at snipe hunt, n.
[Aus] Sporting Globe (Melbourne) 27 July 6/5: There are a whole lot of things that the ‘mug punter’ doesn’t know—that he doesn’t even suspect. Take ‘doping’ first.
at mug punter (n.) under mug, n.1
[Aus] Sporting Globe (Melbourne) 14 Dec. 6/7: I venture to say that the most effective hold that could be employed would be the ‘dip your eye in mud’ slam.
at dip one’s eye... (v.) under eye, n.
[Aus] (ref. to 1926) Sporting Globe (Melbourne) 10 July 11: I won the Veterans' ‘Austral’ Wheel Race [...] in 1926 [...] on what some termed a ‘bitzer,’ the bicycle was composed of famous parts used by world-famed riders.
at bitza, n.
[Aus] Sporting Globe (Melbourne) 23 Nov. 6/3: It is our first—and only—glimpse of his fear that the long jump at last awaits him.
at long jump (n.) under long, adj.
[Aus] Sporting Globe (Melbourne) 9 Oct. 2/6: All the week end I have been walking round like a stunned mullet wondering why I didn’t [...] have a headlong tilt at Ajax in the Melbourne Stakes.
at like a stunned mullet (adj.) under mullet, n.1
[Aus] Sporting Globe (Melbourne) 20 May 4/3: ‘You’re like all mugs; couldn’t beat a carpet yourself and cry “stinking fish” on others’.
at couldn’t beat a carpet under beat, v.
[Aus] Sporting Globe (Melbourne) 28 Nov. 16/1: By the start of the seventh round Narva’s face looked like a pak-a-poo ticket, with blotches everywhere.
at like a pakapoo ticket under like a..., phr.
[Aus] Sporting Globe (Melbourne) 4 Aug. 6/3: Every time I go crook about the umpire you sav ‘Ah no. Be fair.’ Before long "you are starting to get on my quince.
at get on someone’s quince (v.) under quince, n.
[Aus] Sporting Globe (Melbourne) 9 Aug. 12/5: The ‘cheeky possums’ from 3DB will include Globe cast-off George Andrew and his "twin," "Puddin'" Casey, Morrie Callard, Norm Spencer, Danny Webb, John May and Athol Coates.
at cheeky possum (n.) under cheeky, adj.
[Aus] Sporting Globe (Melbourne) 18 Nov. 9/1: The gelding has turned in several swallow-catching gallops.
at swallow-catcher, n.
[Aus] Sporting Globe (Melbourne) 19 Aug. 12/3: I think that I will be I first cab off the rank and take my first Epsom and Metropolitan double.
at first cab off the rank (n.) under first, adj.
[Aus] Sporting Globe (Melbourne) 2 May 8/6: Alex auctioned everything from a pair of ducks to a bottle of whisky [and] the locals bid like the Watsons.
at Watsons, the, n.
[Aus] Sporting Globe (Melbourne) 10 Feb. 12/5: Imported horses have a big ‘wrap’ on them at the moment.
at wrap, n.1
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