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aggro - aggressive
amber fluid - beer
ant's pants - height of fashion, or to think highly of yourself
arvo - afternoon
Aussie - Australian
av-a-go-yer-mug - traditional rallying call, particularly at cricket matches
ay - pardon me

back o'Bourke - back of beyond, middle of nowhere
barbie - barbecue
barking up the wrong tree - labouring under a misapprehension
barrack - cheer on a team at sporting event, support your team
battler - trier, struggler
beanie - ski hat
beat around the bush - not getting to the point
beaut, beauty, bewdie - great, fantastic
belt up - stop talking!
bench - table top
better half - husband or wife
bikey - motor cyclist
billabong - water hole in dried-up river bed
billy - tin container used to boil tea in the bush
biscuit - cookie
black stump - where the 'back o'Bourke' begins
block - do your block: get angry
bloke - man
blower - telephone: on the blower
blowies - blow flies
bludge - do nothing
bludger - lazy person, one who won't work
blue - argument or fight: have a blue
bluey - swag, nickname for a red-haired person
bonzer - great, ripper
boogie board - half sized surf board
boomer - very big, large male kangaroo
boomerang - curved flat wooden instrument used by Aborigines for hunting
booze - alcohol
booze bus - police van used for random breath-testing for alcohol
bottle shop - liquor shop
bottler - something that has gone the way you want: you little bottler
brass - money
brekkie - breakfast
brown-eye - to show one's bottom, mooning
Buckley's - no chance at all
bundy - Bundaberg rum, also time-clock for employees
bung on - put on
bunyip - Australian yetti, or bigfoot
burl - have a try: give it a burl
bush - country, away from the city
bushranger - Australia's equivalent of outlaw of American Wild West
bush tucker - native foods, usually in the outback
BYO - bring your own (booze) to a restaurant

cask - wine box (an Australian invention)
cheerio - good bye
chock-a-block - full
chin wag - to have a good chat
chips - french fries
choof off - to go
chook - chicken
cobber -mate
coldie - a cold beer
come good - turn out all right
corroboree - Aboriginal festival dance
cozzie - swimming costume
crook - ill, badly made, substandard
cuppa - cup of tea
cut lunch - sandwiches

dag, daggy - mildly abusive term for socially inept person, nerd, nerdy
damper - bush loaf made from flour and water, cooked in camp oven
deli - delicatessen
didgeridoo - cylindrical wooden Aboriginal musical instrument
digger - Australian soldier
dill - idiot
dinkum, fair dinkum - honest, genuine
dinky-di - the real thing
dob in - to tell on someone
docket - receipt, bill
dole - unemployment payment
don't come the raw prawn - don't try and fool me
dunny - toilet

earbash - talk nonstop
esky - insulated box for keeping beer etc cool

fair go! - give us a chance
fairy floss - cotton candy
fanny - crude term for female genitalia
flat chat, flat out - going very fast
footy - football
full as a boot - drunk
funny farm - mental institution

galah - noisy parrot, hence 'noisy idiot'
game - brave
gander - look: have a gander
garbo - person who collects your garbage
gas bag - talk a lot
give it away - give up
g'day - good day, traditional Australian greeting
good oh - OK
good on ya - well done
grazier - large-scale sheep or cattle farmer
grog - alcohol
grizzle - complain

hang on a tick - wait a minute
hoon - idiot, hooligan, loud show-off
hoo-roo - good bye
how are ya - standard greeting
how ya going - how are you doing
howzat - asking how something is

idiot box - television
iffy - risky or suspect: something a bit iffy
irrits - irritating: you give me the irrits

jack of it - fed up with it, had enough (of a situation)
jiffy - short time: see you in a jiffy
job you - hit you or punch you: I'll job you
journo - journalist
jumper - sweater

keen - very interested
Kiwi - person from New Zealand
knickers - underwear
knock - criticise, deride
knock off work - time to go home

lamington - square of sponge cake covered in chocolate icing and coconut (an Aussie icon)
lift - elevator
lollies - sweets, candy
lurk - a scheme

manchester - household linen
mate - friend, general term of familiarity, whether you know the person or not
middy - 285 ml beer glass
missus - your wife
mobile phone - cellular phone
mozzies - mosquitoes

nappy - diaper
Never-Never - mythical, remote, isolated place in the outback
nick - steal
nick off - go away! get lost!
no hoper - hopeless case
nose - on the nose: something stinks
no worries - she'll be right, that's OK

ocker - uncultivated, uncultured, boorish Australian
off-sider - assistant or partner
off the beaten track - on an unused road, in a remote area
oldies - parents
once over - looking something or someone over, checking it out
outback - remote part of the bush, back o'Bourke
Oz - Australia
Ozzie - Australian

paddock - field
pavlova - meringue and cream dessert
perve - to gaze with lust
pinch - steal
piss - beer
pissed - drunk
pissed off - annoyed
piss in your pocket - brown-nose
piss-weak - no good, gutless
Pom, Pommie - English person
pokies - poker machines
postie - mail man
prang - motor vehicle accident
pub - hotel
pull your head in - mind your own business!
push bike - bicycle
put up or shut up - prove you can do it or keep quiet!

rack off - get lost!
Rafferty's rules - no rules, a mess
randy - sexually excited, horny
ratbag - friendly term of abuse
rapt - delighted, enraptured
reckon! - you bet! Absolutely!
rego - registration: car registration
rip off, ripped off - you have been cheated
ripper - good, also: little ripper
rip snorter - something that is great
root - have sexual intercourse
rooted - tired
ropable - very angry or bad-tempered
rubber - eraser
rubbish - deride, tease: to rubbish

sacked - fired from work
Salvo - member of the Salvation Army
sandshoes - sneakers, joggers
sanger - sandwich
scallops - fried potato cake in New South Wales, shellfish elsewhere
schooner - large beer glass
semi-trailer - articulated truck
session - lengthy period of heavy drinking
sheila - woman (can be somewhat derogatory)
she'll be right - no worries, everything will be fine
shonky - unreliable, suspect
shoot through - leave in a hurry
shout - buy round of drinks, or pay for someone
shove off - go away!
sickie - day off work ill (or malingering)
sloppy joe - cotton fleecy-lined sweater
smoko - tea break, go and have a cigarette
snag - sausage
Speedo's - male swimming costume
spit the dummy - throw a tantrum
stickybeak - nosey person
stir - tease or joke with person
strides - trousers
Strine - conversation with a lot of Aussie slang
stubby - small bottle of beer
stuffed - very tired, had too much to eat
sunbake - sunbathe (not recommended)
surfies - surfing fanatics

take-away food - fast food, to-go food
tall poppies - achievers
tea - evening meal, dinner
tinny - can of beer
too right! - absolutely!
tracks - make tracks: leave to go home
truckie - truck driver
true blue - dinkum
tucker - food
two-pot screamer - person with low tolerance for alcohol
two-up - traditional heads/tails gambling game

uni - university
up yourself - have a high opinion of yourself ("he's really up himself")
ute - utility, pick-up truck

vedgies - vegetables
vee dub - Volkswagen
veg out - relax in front of the TV
vejjo - vegetarian
verbal diarrhoea - talking non-stop, usually nonsense

wag - to skip school or work: to wag school
walkabout - lengthy walk away from it all
weatherboard - wooden house
wharfie - dock worker
whinge - complain, moan
wobbly - disturbing, unpredictable behaviour, temper tantrum: throw a wobbly
Wog - derogatory term for foreigner
wowser - spoilsport, puritan, old-fashioned
write-off - car involved in an crash that is not worth repairing

xxxx - pronounced Four X, brand of beer made in Queensland

yabbie - small freshwater crayfish
yabber - talk (a lot)
yacking - talking non-stop
yahoo - noisy and unruly persona
yakka - work (noun)
yewy - u-turn in traffic ("chuck a yewy at the next traffic lights")
yobbo - uncouth, aggressive person
yonks - ages, a long time
youse - the plural of you