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Originally Posted by MickeyC
...Anyway he used the term ‘shuftti’ as in “We need to have a quick shuftti before we leave the crime scene”. So I looked it up and apparently it means a quick ‘look around’. Had to stop reading to look it up. Anyway, did I get it right?
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It is in quite common use in Strine and NewZild as well among older people, especially men. Both Australia and NZ fought with the British forces in the WWII North African campaigns, that being the reputed route of the word out of Arabic into English.