Australia Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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big dry n. The “big dry”, as the drought is called here, is likely to cut agricultural output by 20% and GDP by around 0.7%, government officials say. [English Australia Environment] [full cite] (Nov. 10, 2006)

billy cart n. Billy Carts are awesome—they’re just wooden seats on wheels pretty much…with some form of steering. You’d ride em down ur street (I lived on a very quiet street with a tops hill) and it was awesome fun. [English Australia] [full cite] (Jul. 11, 2004)

bitza n. Powering the new Teo is the same engine that saw out the end of last season, the same “old bitza” as Mark likes to call it. Indeed it is an engine with some history amongst the team, containing some of the original components from the very first Ford engine campaigned by Mark’s father Steve in his farewell season in the last 1990’s. [English Australia United Kingdom Animals, Insects, & Birds Colloquial Abbreviation] [full cite] (Oct. 19, 2007)

black aspirin n. Any early morning seediness is usually overcome by ingestion of the Black Aspirin and a quick shower. [English Australia Slang] [full cite] (Sep. 6, 2006)

blak n. Early in her career, she coined the term “Blak”—now widely used by Aboriginal artists making a political point in their work. [English Australia] [full cite] (Nov. 25, 2004)

block bombing n. Cold comfort as it may be, hooning is not an exclusively Brisbane problem. In Hobart, hoons do what is called “block bombing” where they roar around the CBD block. [English Australia Automobiles & Transportation New or Nonce] [full cite] (Aug. 28, 2007)

boaty n. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he describes the nation’s welcome of “boat people” in the late 1970s as a positive development. “For a long time it was a pejorative term: ‘You’re a boaty, right?’” [English Australia Slang] [full cite] (Dec. 20, 2007)

bodgy adj. They drive across Western Australia in a bodgy (beat-up) car. [ Language English Place Australia] [full cite] (Dec. 25, 2005)

book-up n. THE ANZ bank has warned it will not do business with shops that hold the credit cards and personal identification numbers of Aboriginal customers. In a submission to the Northern Territory Government, the bank says the practice, known as “book-up,” exposes indigenous people “to an unacceptable risk of fraud, theft, unsafe debt and liability for unauthorised transactions.” [English Australia Money & Finance] [full cite] (Mar. 1, 2006)

bottle n. Treasurer Peter Costello did not have “the bottle” to take the prime ministership from John Howard and was waiting for it to land in his lap, Labor Leader Kim Beazley said today. [English Australia] [full cite] (Mar. 7, 2005)

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