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dook
verb- to pass or hand over something secretly AUSTRALIA, 1915
- What I mean is I can dook you a caser if it’s any good to you. — D’Arcy Niland, The Shiralee, p. 138, 1955
- to pay a bribe or gratuity AUSTRALIA, 1945
- “You stop at the pub in town and ask where the best farms are”, he said. “You don’t ask the manager. You ask the barman, and you dook him.” — T. A. G. Hungerford, Stories From Suburban Road, p. 152, 1983
▶ dook them
in the gambling game two-up, to throw heads three times in a row AUSTRALIA- The boxer takes a percentage (generally from two shillings to four shillings in the pound) out of the centre each time the spinner has “dooked them” or “done a dook”, which means he has tossed three straight heads. — James Holledge, The Great Australian Gamble, p. 102, 1966
- I’m not dooking some country publican now. — Clive Galea, Slipper, p. 198, 1988
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