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sharpies

n. (plural of sharpie English)

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Sharpies (Australian subculture)

Sharpies, or Sharps, were members of suburban youth gangs in Australia, most significantly from the 1960s and 1970s. They were particularly prominent in Melbourne, but were also found in Sydney and Perth to lesser extents. Sharpies were known for being violent, although a strict moral code was also evident. The name comes from their focus on looking and dressing "sharp".

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And as for Sharpies, a despicable moneylender he had made the acquaintance of in Flint's one evening, well, one of Sharples's confederates had killed him.

In his mind's eye, he saw himself taking the knife out of his pocket, the knife with which he'd killed Sharpies, and he saw himself stabbing Daisy with it, in the throat.

Yet he'd gone to the morgue to see the body of Tommy Sharpies for one very important reason.

But why would he have tried to pay his debts with such a valuable piece of gold, and why did me thief who murdered Sharpies not steal it?

It may have been the noise of the elevator, or the radio, or some perpetual sign, which her body sent out, but when she crossed the lobby with me all three of the sharpies were watching from the curtained doorway of the Samoa Room.

Three booths down a couple of sharpies were selling each other pieces of Twentieth Century-Fox, using double-arm gestures instead of money.

It seemed to me for an instant that there was no sound in the bar, that the sharpies stopped sharping and the drunk on the stool stopped burbling away, and it was like just after the conductor taps on his music stand and raises his aims and holds them poised.

The two sharpies were still waving their hands and the solo drinker on the barstool had a couple of pals with him.

The two sharpies were still waving their hands and the solo drinker on the bar stool had a couple of pals with him.

Mention Manchester to me and all that swims into my mind is a vague and unfocused impression of Ena Sharpies, L.