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The Broken Shore choose

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[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] Fuck off wankers! Don’t give a shit about jobs, do ya?
at give a shit, v.
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] Every second dickhead wants to live in the county [...] fuckin up the roads, moanin about the cowshit and the ag chemicals.
at ag, n.1
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] He’s not aggro about me. It’s the world that’s the problem.
at aggro, adj.
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] The Commissioner’s on my hammer.
at on someone’s hammer (and tack) under hammer and tack, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] The Caine animals won’t touch me [...] Because my cousins would kill them.
at animal, n.1
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] You think you can shack up with a swaggie out there and nobody knows? You can let your arsefucker punch out innocent citizens and you look the other way?
at arsefucker (n.) under arse, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] ‘You arsehole.’ ‘Come around to my office and repeat that’.
at arsehole, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] Dog’s inside, mad as a pork chop, the little bugger.
at mad as..., adj.
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] Sam’s in shit because he’s bad news and now he has to cop it.
at bad news, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] It’s [i.e. a newspaper mission in life is to get the Libs back [...] And that means bagging blacks every chance they get.
at bag, v.
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] Never forget those stewards, pillowbiters to a man. they’d come along those narrow passages and rub against my Harry.
at pillow-biter, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] Typical Daunt black trash [...] They’ve got some minor form.
at black trash (n.) under black, adj.
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] Blind Freddy’s dog’s got a better chance of getting into parliament.
at blind Freddie, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] You fucking blow-in, you don’t know Brunetti’s from Donetti’s.
at blow-in, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] Jesus, mate, I’m just a fuckin brickie.
at brickie, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] Dick kicked the bucket and Charles sold the business to these Pommy bastards.
at kick the bucket, v.
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] I know him from before, he got the bullet from the Greeks, went Queensborough.
at give someone the bullet (v.) under bullet, n.1
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] Rebb was examining the chainsaw. ‘ell, I dcon’t know you [...] But I know a buggered chainie when I see it’.
at chainie, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] [He] wished he had a smoke. How long did the craving last? It would last forever if he kept chipping every chance he got.
at chip, v.2
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] Michael rang [...] He’s fine, very chipper.
at chipper, adj.
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] One bloke [...] raved on, then he clammed up.
at clam (up), v.
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] Now that [i.e. a girl] is class. And you’re a lucky boy.
at class, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] ‘What about the fingerprints?’ ‘I’m taking your word you’re clean’.
at clean, adj.
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] And presto, six months later Hopgood and his cocksucker offsiders were running the show again.
at cocksucker, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] I hear they got someone to do a cook for em, too.
at cook, n.1
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] This bloke, he’s like a travellin speed cook.
at cook, n.1
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] Sam’s in shit because he’s bad news and now he has to cop it.
at cop it, v.
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] [His] male lover had been found knifed to death [...] possibly killed by one of the sexual crazies for which Adelaide was famous.
at crazy, n.
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] The big boss woman’s supposed to have sacked all the dirtbags [...] but whoopy do, here we go again.
at whoop-de-doo!, excl.
[Aus] P. Temple Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] Hopgood puts us together in a dud car, claims he can’t hear the radio.
at dud, adj.
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