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Aerial pingpong: Australian Rules football

Amber fluid: beer

Ankle biter: small child

Antipodes: places on exactly opposite sides of the earth

Arvo: afternoon

Aussie (pron: ozzie): Australian

Aussie salute: brushing away flies with the hand

Avos: avocados


Back of Bourke: a very long way away

Barbie: barbecue 

Banana bender: a person from Queensland

Barrack: to cheer for

Bastard: can be either a term of affection or the opposite!!

Beauty: great, fantastic

Bikkie: biscuit 

Billabong: a watering hole

Billy: large tin can used to boil water over a campfire for tea

Bitza: mutt, dog of mixed breeds

Bloke: man, guy

Bloody: very 

Blowie: blow fly

Bludger: lazy person, somebody who always relies on other people to do things or lend him things

Blue: fight 

Bodgy: of inferior quality

Bonzer: great, ripper

Boomer: a large male kangaroo

Booze bus: police vehicle used for catching drunk drivers

Bottle shop: liquor shop

Brekkie: breakfast

Brizzie: Brisbane, state capital of Queensland

Brumby: a wild horse

Buckley's chance: no chance 

Buck's night: stag party, male gathering the night before the wedding

Bull bar: stout bar fixed to the front of a vehicle to protect it against hitting kangaroos

Bundy: short for Bundaberg, Queensland, and the brand of rum that's made there

Bunyip: mythical outback creature

Bush: the Outback

Bushie: someone who lives in the Bush

Bushranger: outlaw

B.Y.O.: unlicensed restaurant where you have to Bring Your Own grog


Cark it: die, cease functioning

Chook: a chicken

Chrissie: Christmas

Chuck a sickie: take the day off sick from work when you're perfectly healthy

Chunder: vomit

Clayton's: fake, substitute

Click: kilometre

Cockroach: a person from New South Wales

Coldie: a beer

Compo: Workers' Compensation pay

Corroboree: an aboriginal dance festival

Counter lunch: pub lunch

Cozzie: swimming costume

Cranky: in a bad mood, angry

Crook: sick

Crow eater: a person from South Australia

Cut lunch: sandwiches


Dag: nerd, goof

Daks: trousers

Damper: bread made from flour and water

Deadset: true

Dero: tramp, hobo, homeless person

Digger: a soldier

Dill: an idiot

Dob in: inform on somebody

Docket: a bill, receipt

Down Under: Australia and New Zealand

Drink with the flies: to drink alone

Drongo: a dope, stupid person

Dunny: outhouse


Earbashing: nagging

Esky: cooler


Fair dinkum: True, genuine

Fair go: a chance 

Fairy floss: candy floss, cotton candy

Footy: Australian Rules football

Fossicking: searching, rummaging 

Full: drunk


Galah: fool

Garbo: trash man

G'Day: hello!

Good on ya: good for you, well done

Greenie: environmentalist

Grog: liquor, beer


Handle: beer glass with a handle

Heaps: a lot

Hotel: often just a pub


Jackaroo: a male station hand 

Jillaroo: a female station hand

Joey: baby kangaroo

Journo: journalist

Jumbuck: sheep


Kelpie: Australian sheepdog

Kero: kerosene

Knock: to criticise

Knock back: refusal, refuse


Larrikin: joker, prankster

Liquid laugh: vomit

Lob in: drop in to see someone 

Lollies: sweets, candy

London to a brick: absolute certainty

Loo: toilet

Lucky Country: Australia


Mad as a Cut snake: very angry

Mate: buddy, friend

Mate's rate: cheaper than usual for a "friend"

Metho: methylated spirits

Mexican: a person from south of the (Queensland) border

Middy: 285 ml beer glass in New South Wales

Milk bar: corner shop that sells takeaway food

Mob: group of people, pack of kangaroos

Mongrel: despicable person

Mozzie: mosquito

Muddy: mud crab


Never Never: the Outback

Not the full quid: dumb, not smart


Ocker: an unsophisticated person

Outback: interior of Australia

Oz: Australia!


Pash: passion, infatuation

Pav: Pavlova - a rich, creamy Australian dessert

Perve: looking lustfully at the opposite sex

Plonk: cheap wine

Pokies: poker machines, fruit machines

Polly: politician

Pom, pommy: an Englishman

Port: suitcase 

Postie: postman

Pot: 285 ml beer glass in Queensland

Prezzy: present, gift


Quid: English pound


Rage: party

Raw prawn: to bullshit, to be generally disagreeable

Reckon: you bet, Absolutely

Rego: vehicle registration

Rellie: family relative

Righto: okay 

Ripper: great, fantastic

Road train: truck with many trailers

Roo: kangaroo

Rotten: drunk 

Rubbish: to criticize


 Sandgroper: a person from Western Australia

Sanger: a sandwich

Schooner: large beer glass in Queensland; small beer glass in South Australia

Scratchy: instant lottery ticket

Servo: petrol station

Shark biscuit: somebody new to surfing

Sheila: a woman

She'll be right: it'll turn out okay

Shonky: dubious, underhanded. 

Shoot through: to leave

Shout: turn to buy - a round of drinks usually

Sickie: day off sick from work 

Slab: a carton of 24 bottles or cans of beer

Smoko: smoke or coffee break

Snag: a sausage

Spit the dummy: get very upset at something

Sprung: caught doing something wrong

Station: a big farm or ranch

Stickybeak: nosy person

Stone the Crows: Heaven forbid

Stuffed: tired

Stubby: a beer bottle

Sunbake: sunbathe

Sunnies: sunglasses

Swag: gear, luggage

Swaggie: swagman

Swagman: tramp, hobo


Tall poppies: successful people

Ta: thank you 

Taswegian: a person from Tasmania

Technicolor yawn: vomit

Tee-up: to set up an appointment

Thongs: flip flops

Tinny: can of beer, small aluminium boat

Togs: swim suit

Too right: definitely

Top End: far north of Australia

Truckie: truck driver

Tucker: food

Tucker-bag: food bag

Turps: turpentine, alcoholic drink

Two up: traditional Aussie gambling game played by flipping two coins simultaneously


Uni: university

Unit: flat, apartment

Ute: utility vehicle


Vego: vegetarian


Walkabout: lost, can't be found

Whinge: complain

Whinger: complainer

White pointers (on the beach): topless sunbathers

Wobbly: excitable behaviour 

Wog: flu or trivial illness

Woop Woop: bame for any small unimportant town 


XXXX (Four X): Queensland Beer


Yabber: talk 

Yanks: Americans

Yobbo: an uncouth person

 


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