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Poke borax

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Verb
  1. 1
    To ridicule. Australia, New-Zealand, intransitive, often

    "Maybe the geezer was a major really. Or maybe he was poking borax. That was the trouble with toffs from outside the area – you didn't know where you were with them."

Etymology

From poke borak or poke borack, probably by substitution of the unfamiliar word, by the law of Hobson-Jobson.

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