Aussie Slang
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A
Aeroplane blonde:
One who has bleached or dyed her hair but still has a ‘black box’.
Arvo:
Short for afternoon.
Aussie kiss:
Similar to a French Kiss, but given down under.
Aussie salute:
Brushing away flies with the hand.
B
Badly packed kebab:
A vulgar (but still excellent) term for the female genitalia.
Bail out:
Depart, usually angrily.
Bail (somebody) up:
To corner somebody physically.
Balls-up: ?
Mistake.
Barbie:
Barbecue (noun).
Barney:
A fight.
Barrack:
To cheer on (football team, etc.).
Battler:
Someone working hard and just barely making a living.
Beaut, beauty:
Great, fantastic.
Beaver leaver:
A homosexual (male)
Beer coat:
The invisible, but warm coat worn when walking home after a booze
cruise at 3 in the morning.
Beer compass:
The invisible device that ensures your safe arrival home after a booze cruise, even though you’re too pissed to remember where you live, how you got there, and where you’ve come from.
Beer scooter:
The ability to get home after a night out on the booze and not remember it i.e. “I don’t even remember getting home last night, I must have caught the beer scooter”.
Bib and tucker:
Best clothing. When you’re in your bib and tucker you’re “dressed to the nines.”
Big-note oneself:
Brag, boast.
Bikkie:
Biscuit (also “it cost big bikkies” -x80×94 it was expensive).
Billabong:
An oxbow river or watering hole.
Billy:
Large tin can used to boil water over a campfire for tea.
Bities:
Biting insects.
Bitzer:
Mongrel dog (bits of this and bits of that).
Bizzo:
Business. (”Mind your own bizzo.”)
Black stump, beyond the:
A long way away, the back of nowhere.
Bloke:
Man, guy.
Bloody:
Very (bloody hard yakka).
Bloody oath!:
That’s certainly true.
Blow-in:
Unexpected visitor.
Blow-through:
Leaving with a goodbye.
Blowie:
Blowfly.
Bludger:
Lazy person, layabout, somebody who always relies on other people to do things
or lend him things.
Blue:
Fight. (”He was having a blue with his wife.”)
Blue, make a:
Make a mistake.
Bluey:
Pack, equipment, traffic ticket, redhead.
Bluey:
Blue heeler cattle dog (named after its subtle markings), which is an excellent working dog. Everyone’s favorite all-Aussie dog.
Bobfoc:
Body Off Baywatch, Face Off Crimewatch.
Bob’s your uncle:
When someone explains something that has a logical conclusion, they may end with that phrase. It means they expect you to easily follow the progression and things will work out.
Bodgy:
Of inferior quality.
Bog in:
Commence eating, to attack food with enthusiasm.
Bollocky:
To be in the “bollocky” is to be naked.
Bonzer:
Great, ripper.
Boofhead:
A dill, or idiot.
Boomer:
A large male kangaroo.
Boozer:
A pub.
Bottle-o:
Liquor shop.
Brasco:
Toilet.
Brass razoo, he hasn’t got a:
He’s very poor.
Break the seal:
Your first piss in the pub, usually after 2 hours of solid drinking. After breaking the seal of your bladder, repeat visits to the toilet will be required every 10 or 15 minutes for the rest of the night.
Britney spears:
Modern slang for ‘beers’, e.g. “Couple of Britneys please, Doreen”.
Brown-eyed mullet:
A turd in the sea (where you’re swimming!).
Bruce lee:
Erect nipple (as in, a hard Nip).
Brumby:
A wild horse.
Budgie’s tongue or small man in a boat, or tongue punchbag:
The female erection.
Bull bar:
Stout bar fixed to the front of a vehicle to protect against hitting kangaroos.
Bugger off, go to buggery:
Get lost.
Bung it on:
To pretend, or lay it on thick.
Bunny-boiler:
An unhinged and overly possessive woman. From the rabbit boiling scene in the film “Fatal Attraction”, e.g. ” I don’t like the look of that aeroplane blonde - could be a bunny boiler”.
Bushranger:
Highwayman, outlaw.
Bush telly:
Campfire.
C
Cack:
Something unpleasant.
Cacky-hander:
Left-handed person.
Cactus:
Dead, not functioning. (”This bloody washing machine is cactus.”)
Cark:
When you die, you “cark it.”
Capt. Cook:
Look (noun). (”Let’s have a Capt. Cook.”)
Chewie:
Chewing gum.
Chinwag:
Conversation.
Choof off:
To leave.
Chook:
A chicken.
Chuck a sickie:
Take the day off sick from work when you’re perfectly healthy.
Chunder:
To vomit.
Clayton’s:
Fake, substitute.
Click:
Kilometer. (”It’s 10 clicks away.”)
Clucky:
Feeling broody or maternal.
Cobber:
A friend or mate.
Cock-a-doodle-poo:
The bowel movement that, needing to come out urgently, wakes you up in the morning to get to the toilet quick.
Codswallop:
Nonsense.
Coldie:
Can of beer.
Come a gutser:
Make a bad mistake, have an accident.
Comic cuts:
Your guts.
Cooee, not within:
Figuratively a long way away, far off. (”England wasn’t within cooee of beating Australia at cricket.”)
Corker:
If something’s great, it’s a corker.
Cozzie:
Swimming costume.
Crack on to:
To woo a member of the opposite sex.
Crash hot:
Can mean something great. You can also be feeling “not so crash hot” (buggered).
Crawler:
Sycophant.
Crikey/Cripes:
Expression of surprise.
Crook:
When you’re feeling ill, you’re “crook.”
Crows:
“Stone the crows.” Expression of disbelief or surprise, similar to crikey, cripes.
Cut snake, mad as a:
Very angry.
D
Dag:
A funny person, nerd, goof.
Daks:
Trousers.
Damper:
Bread made from flour and water.
Dead dingo’s donger, as dry as a:
Very dry.
Deadset:
True, the truth.
Decko:
To take a decko means to look.
Digger:
A soldier.
Dill:
An idiot.
DILLIGAF:
Do I Look Like I Give A Fuck
Dingo’s breakfast:
A yawn, a leak and a good look around (i.e., no breakfast).
Dinkum, fair dinkum:
True, real, genuine. (”I’m a dinkum Aussie,” or “Is he fair dinkum?”)
Dinky-di:
The real thing, genuine.
Dob (somebody) in:
Inform on somebody. Hence dobber, a tell-tale.
Docket:
A bill, receipt.
Doco:
Documentary.
Dog’s eye:
Meat pie (Australian national dish).
Dole bludger:
Somebody on social assistance when unjustified.
Doozey:
Something very pleasant, significant, large.
Dot:
Your bottom.
Double bass:
A sexual position in which the man enters the woman from behind, and then fiddles with the woman’s nipples with one hand and her Budgie’s tongue with the other. The position is similar to that used when Playing the double bass instrument, but the sound produced is slightly different.
Drink-link:
A modern term for a cashpoint machine (ATM). Named so because it is common to visit one before going out on the booze.
Drink with the flies:
Drink alone.
Drongo:
A dope, stupid person.
Drop your bundle:
Lose control.
Drum:
Information, tip-off. (”I’ll give you the drum.”)
Duchess:
Sideboard.
Duck-shove:
Continually moving a problem until it disappears.
Dummy, spit the:
Get very upset at something.
Dunny:
Outside lavatory.
Dunny budgie:
Blow fly.
Dunny rat, cunning as a:
Very cunning.
Durry:
Cigarette.
Dyke:
Toilet.
E
Earbasher (also yakkabox, chatterbox):
Person who talks too much.
Eau de Telephone.
Esky:
Large insulated food/drink container for picnics, barbecues, etc.
Etch-a-sketch:
Trying to draw a smile on a woman’s face by twiddling both her nipples simultaneously.
Exy:
Expensive.
F
Fair go:
A chance. (”Give a bloke a fair go.”)
Fair suck of the sav!:
Exclamation of wonder, awe,
Fairy floss:
Candy floss, cotton candy.
Fat as a match:
Someone who’s actually thin.
Fat … to chew the fat:
To have a discussion, usually about nothing in particular.
Fatties:
Wide car tires.
Flake:
Shark’s flesh (sold in fish and chips shops).
Flaming:
A compliment. Someone or something is said to be “flaming, great” when they/it are better than OK.
Flat-chat:
When you are working to full capacity you are said to be “working flat-chat.”
Flatties:
Low-heeled women’s shoes.
Flick:
To give something or somebody the flick is to get rid of it or him/her.
Flick it on:
To sell something, usually for a quick profit, soon after buying it.
Flogging on:
Surfing the Internet for some left-handed websites.
Fly wire:
Gauze fly-screen covering a window or doorway.
Fossicking:
Searching, rummaging. (”Fossicking through the kitchen drawers.”)
Freckle:
Your bum.
Free the tadpoles:
Liberate the residents of the Wank Tanks.
Fred Nerk:
Mythical person who can be anybody. Like America’s John Doe.
Frigmarole:
Unnecessarily time-consuming foreplay.
F***SHITF***SHITF***SHIT:
The sound made when driving through too narrow a gap at too high a
speed.
Fruit loop:
Fool.
Full:
Drunk.
G
Galah:
Fool, named after the bird of the same name that
flies south in the winter -x80×94 a bloody silly thing to do in the
Southern Hemisphere.
Garbo, garbologist:
Municipal garbage collector.
G’day:
Hello!
Give it a burl:
Try it, have a go.
Gobful, give a:
To abuse, usually justifiably. (”The
neighbors were having a noisy party so I went and gave
them a gobful.”)
Going off:
A night spot or party that is a lot of fun. (”The
place was really going off.”).
Going for a McShit:
Entering a fast food restaurant with no intention of buying food, you’re just going to the bog. If challenged by a pimply staff member, your declaration to them that you’ll buy their food afterwards is called a “McShit With Lies”.
Good oil:
Useful information, a good idea, the truth.
Good onya:
Good for you, well done.
Goog, as full as a:
Drunk. “Goog” is a variation of the northern English slang word “goggie,” meaning an egg.
Greyhound:
A very short skirt, only an inch from the hare.
Greenie:
Environmentalist.
Grinning like a shot fox:
Very happy, smugly satisfied.
Grog:
Liquor, beer. (”Bring your own grog, you bludger.”)
Grouse:
Great, terrific, very good.
H
Hand-to-gland combat:
A vigorous masturbation session.
Handle:
Beer glass with a handle.
Hoon:
Hooligan.
Hooroo:
Goodbye.
Hotel:
Often just a pub.
Hottie:
Hot-water bottle.
I
Icy pole, ice block:
Popsicle, lollipop.
J
Jackaroo:
A male station hand (a station is a big farm/ranch).
Jillaroo:
A female station hand.
Joey:
Baby kangaroo.
Johnny-no-stars:
A young man of substandard intelligence, the typical adolescent who Works in a burger restaurant. The ‘no stars’ comes from the badges Displaying stars that staff at fast-food restaurants often wear to show their level of training.
Journo:
Journalist.
Jumbuck:
Sheep.
K
Kangaroos loose in the top paddock:
Intellectually inadequate. (”He’s got kangaroos loose in the top paddock.”)
Kelpie:
Australian sheepdog originally bred from Scottish collie.
Kero:
Kerosene.
Kindie:
Kindergarten.
L
Lair it up:
To behave in a brash and vulgar manner.
Larrikin:
A bloke who is always enjoying himself, harmless prankster.
Lend of, to have a:
To take advantage of somebody’s gullibility, to have someone on. (”He’s having a lend of you.”)
Lippy:
Lipstick.
Liquid laugh:
Vomit.
Lizard drinking, flat out like a:
Flat out, busy.
Lob, lob in:
Drop in to see someone. (”The rellies have lobbed.”)
Lollies:
Sweets, candy.
London to a brick:
Absolute certainty. (”It’s London to a brick that taxes won’t go down.”)
Loo:
Toilet.
Lucky
Country, the: Australia, where else?
Lurk:
Illegal or underhanded racket.
M
Mallee bull, as fit as a:
Very fit and strong. The Mallee is very arid beef country in New South Wales/South Australia.
Mate:
Buddy, friend.
Mate’s rate, mate’s discount:
Cheaper than usual for a “friend.”
McSplurry:
The type of bowel movement you experience after dining for a week in fast food restaurants
Mickey Mouse:
Excellent, very good. Beware, though -x80×94 in some parts of Australia it means inconsequential, frivolous or not very good!
Middy:
285-ml beer glass in New South Wales.
Milk bar:
Corner shop that sells takeaway food.
Milko:
Milkman.
Millennium domes:
The contents of a Wonderbra, i.e. extremely impressive when viewed from the outside, but there’s actually f***-all in there worth seeing.
Mongrel:
Despicable person.
Monkey bath:
A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go “Oo! Ool Oo! Aa! Aa! Aa!”.
Mozzie:
Mosquito.
Muddy:
Mud crab (a great delicacy).
Mug:
Friendly insult (”Have a go, yer mug!”), gullible person.
Mumbler:
An attractive girl in tight shorts or jeans, etc i.e. you can see the ‘lips’ moving but can’t quite make out what they’re saying.
Muster:
Round up sheep or cattle.
Mystery bus:
The bus that arrives at the pub on Friday night while you’re in the toilet after your 10th pint, and whisks away all the unattractive people so the pub is suddenly packed with stunners when you come back in.
Mystery taxi:
The taxi that arrives at your place on Saturday morning before you wake up, whisks away the stunner you slept with, and leaves a 10-pinter in your bed instead.
N
NBR (no beers required):
Someone that you’d chat up instantly in the pub. The opposite of a 10-pinter.
Nelson Mandela:
Rhyming slang for “Stella” (the lager).
Never Never:
The Outback, center of Australia.
Nipper:
Young surf lifeguard.
No-hoper:
Somebody who’ll never do well.
Not the full quid:
Not bright intellectually.
No worries!:
Expression of forgiveness or reassurance. (”No problem,” “Forget about it,” “I can do it,” or “Yes.)
O
Ocker:
An unsophisticated person.
Offsider:
An assistant, helper.
Oldies:
Parents. (”I’ll have to ask my oldies.”)
One in the departure lounge:
The need to defecate imminently.
O.S.:
Overseas. (”He’s gone O.S.”)
Outback:
Interior of Australia.
Oz:
Australia!
P
Pash:
A long passionate kiss; hence “pashing on.”
Pearl harbour:
Cold (weather). An example of it would be - “It’s a bit Pearl Harbour out there!” Meaning - there’s a nasty ‘nip’ in the air.
Picasso arse:
A woman whose knickers are too small for her, so she looks like she’s got 4 buttocks.
Piece of piss:
Easy task.
Pig’s arse!:
I don’t agree with you.
Piker:
Someone who doesn’t want to fit in with others socially, leaves parties early.
Piss:
Beer. Hence “hit the piss,” “sink some piss.”
Plonk:
Cheap wine.
Pokies:
Poker machines, fruit machines.
Polly:
Politician.
Pom, pommy:
An Englishman.
Pommy’s towel, as dry as a:
Very dry -x80×94 based on the canard that Poms bathe about once a month.
Port:
Suitcase (portmanteau).
Postie:
Postman, mailman.
Pot:
285-ml beer glass in Queensland.
Pozzy:
Position. (”Get a good pozzy at the football stadium.”)
Prezzy:
Present, gift.
Q
Quid, make a:
Earn a living. (”Are you making a quid?”)
Quid, not the full:
Of low IQ.
R
Rack off:
Push off! Get lost! Get out of here! Also, “Rack off, hairy legs!”
Ragman’s coat:
Untidy and unkempt pubic hair e.g. “That mumbler looks quite fit, but I bet she’s got a kebab like a ragmans coat!”
Raw prawn, to come the:
To put one on, to be generally disagreeable.
Reckon!:
You bet! Absolutely!
Rego:
Vehicle registration.
Release a chocolate hostage:
To defecate e.g. “I’ve got one in the departure lounge, so I’m just nipping out to release a chocolate hostage”.
Rellie:
Family relative.
Ridgy-didge:
Original, genuine.
Right:
OK. (”She’ll be right, mate.”)
Ripper:
Great, fantastic. (”It was a ripper party.”)
Rip snorter:
Great, fantastic. (”It was a rip snorter of a party.”)
Rollie:
A cigarette that you roll yourself.
Roo:
Kangaroo.
Ropeable:
Very angry.
Rort:
Cheating, fiddling, defrauding (expenses, the system etc.). Usually used of politicians.
Rotten:
Drunk. (”I went out last night and got rotten.”)
Rubbish (verb):
To criticize.
S
Salad dodger:
An excellent phrase for an overweight person.
Salvos, the:
Salvation Army, bless them.
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 OK.
Shonky:
Dubious, underhanded -x80×94 a shonky practice, shonky business, etc.
Shout:
Turn to buy -x80×94 a round of drinks usually. (”It’s your shout.”)
Skin-chimney:
- see Badly packed kebab
Skite:
Boast, brag.
Slab:
A carton of 24 bottles or cans of beer.
Sleepout:
House verandah converted to a bedroom.
Smoko:
Smoke or coffee break.
Sook:
Person or animal who is soft, tame, inoffensive. Hence sooky (adj.).
Snag:
A sausage.
Sperm wail or Spuphemism:
A verbal outburst during the male orgasm.
Spewin’:
Very angry.
Spit the dummy:
Get very upset at something.
Sprung:
Caught doing something wrong.
Spunk:
A good-looking person (of either sex).
Squizz (noun):
Look. (”Take a squizz at this.”)
Starfish trooper or Arsetronaut:
A homosexual
Station:
A big farm/ranch.
Stickybeak:
Nosy person.
Strewth:
Exclamation, mild oath. (”Strewth, that Chris is a bonzer bloke.”)
Strides:
Trousers.
Strine:
Australian slang and pronunciation.
Stubby:
A 375-ml beer bottle.
Stubby holder:
Polystyrene insulated holder for a stubby.
Stuffed, I’ll be:
Expression of surprise.
Stuffed, I feel:
I’m tired.
Sunnies:
Sunglasses.
Surfies:
People who go surfing -x80×94usually more often than they go to work!
Swag:
Rolled-up bedding, etc., carried by a swagman.
Swamp-donkey:
A deeply unattractive woman
T
Tall poppies:
Successful people.
Tart fuel or Bitch piss:
Bottled Alcopops, e.g Hooch, regularly consumed by young woman.
Technicolor yawn:
Vomit.
Tee-up:
To set up (an appointment).
Ten-pinter:
Someone that you’d only chat up after drinking at least 10 pints.
Thingo:
Wadjamacallit, thingummy, whatsit.
to have on oneself:
To have a high opinion of oneself.
Tinny:
Can of beer, small aluminum boat.
Titanic:
A lady who goes down the first time out.
Todger dodger:
A lesbian.
Togs:
Swimsuit.
Too right!:
Definitely!
Top End:
Far north of Australia.
Trackies:
Track suit.
Truckie:
Truck driver.
Tucker:
Food.
Tucker-bag:
Food bag.
Turps:
Turpentine, alcoholic drink.
Turps, hit the:
Go on a drinking binge.
U
Uni:
University.
Unit:
Flat, apartment.
Up oneself:
Have a high opinion of oneself. (”He’s really up himself.”)
Up somebody, get:
To rebuke somebody. (”The boss got up me for being late.”)
Useless as an ashtray on a motorbike:
Incompetent or unhelpful person or thing.
Ute:
Utility vehicle.
V
Vedgies:
Vegetables.
Vejjo:
Vegetarian.
W
Waggin’ school:
Playing truant.
Walkabout, it’s gone:
It’s lost, can’t be found.
Whinge:
Complain.
Whiteant:
To criticize something to deter somebody from buying it. A car dealer might whiteant another dealer’scars or a real estate salesman might whiteant another agent’s property.
Wobbly:
Excitable behavior. (”I complained about the food and the waiter threw a wobbly.”)
Wog:
Flu or trivial illness.
Woop Woop:
Invented name for any small unimportant town. (”He lives in Woop Woop.”)
Wowser:
Straight-laced person, prude, puritan, spoilsport.
X
X-Piles:
Unwanted visitors from Uranus.
XXXX:
Pronounced Four X, brand of beer made in Queensland.
Y
Yabber:
Talk (a lot).
Yakka:
Work (noun).
Yewy:
U-turn in traffic. (”Chuck a yewy at the next traffic lights.”)
Yobbo:
An uncouth person.
Youse:
You.
Z
Zack:
Sixpence (5 cents). (”It isn’t worth a zack.”)
