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shoots through like a Bondi tram

shoots through like a Bondi tram is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shoot through like a Bondi tram.

Meaning of shoot through like a Bondi tram

Verb

shoot through like a Bondi tram (third-person singular simple present shoots through like a Bondi tram, present participle shooting through like a Bondi tram, simple past and past participle shot through like a Bondi tram)

  1. (Australia, colloquial, informal, simile) To leave in haste.
    • […] then he gets back into his jeep says good luck boys and shoots through like a Bondi tram.1945 April, John Scarlett, censored dispatch quoted in 2011, Fay Anderson, Richard Trembath, Witnesses to War: The History of Australian Conflict Reporting, Melbourne University Press, page 197

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Shoots through like a Bondi tram is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shoot through like a Bondi tram.

Words near shoots through like a Bondi tram in the dictionary

  1. shoots the messenger
  2. shoots the messenger boy
  3. shoots the moon
  4. shoots the shit
  5. shoots through
  6. shoots through like a Bondi tram
  7. shoots trouble
  8. shoots up
  9. shootward
  10. shooty
  11. shootynge

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