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

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brawler van n. The brawler van will be used to transport people charged with public order offences back to the police station. It comes with all the bells and whistles police need, including an inbuilt camera to record activity around the van, a floodlight, a breath testing machine and even a hose to water down anyone sprayed with capsicum [English Australia] [full cite] (Dec. 19, 2008)

breed v. A witness who cannot be named told the court that Neal told him in 2005 that he had been targeting teenage boys in suburban toilet blocks to “breed” them—a term used to describe intentionally infecting someone with HIV. Neal also allegedly wore a penis piercing to increase the rate of transmission when he had unprotected sex, the court was told. [English Australia Health Sex & Sexuality New or Nonce Slang] [full cite] (Mar. 22, 2007)

brekko n. What Boris Becker had for brekko, for instance. [English Australia Food & Drink] [full cite] (Feb. 11, 2005)

brekko n. Radio B-105 is turning on a free brekko for any secretary worth her spiral pad at the Brisbane City Travelodge. [English Australia Food & Drink] [full cite] (Feb. 11, 2005)

bubble under the lino n. Senator CROSSIN—Perhaps you had better let A-G’s know. That might be just a dent in the whole-of-government strategy that is not quite working this week. Mr Vaughan—It might be a bubble under the lino. [English Australia Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 1, 2006)

bullrush n. Bullrush is tops too—just a massive group of people on one side of the field. One person (or two sometimes) would be chosen to be in, and they’d stand in the middle and yell “BULLRUSH” and *everyone* would run across the field. The idea was for the ppl who are in to tip (or tackle if parents or teachers weren’t around) ppl and then they were in with you. Then once everyone was across, it was yelled again. Each person who was caught was in the middle and was trying to catch the ppl running—this bit is reffered to as “gang-ups’ :) [English Australia] [full cite] (Jul. 11, 2004)

bush bashing n. Inspector Andrew Humberstone, in charge of the search, said Mr Meyer was a highly experienced bushwalker and was equipped with food, water, a mobile phone and GPS equipment when he set off. But Mr Meyer was known to hike off set tracks, he said. “He was known to go bush bashing, as they call it, through the scrub with his GPS, so it’s quite likely he’s somewhere off track at the moment.” [English Australia Pastimes & Hobbies] [full cite] (Mar. 29, 2008)

buster n. The people of this generation are sometimes referred to as slackers, busters, or post-boomers—yet these labels misunderstand their work ethic—they just work differently. [English Australia Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 4, 2004)

care leaver n. Wards of the state are officially referred to as Care Leavers but the people who have been brought up this way don’t like that title. They would argue that no care was given to them at all [English Australia Health Jargon] [full cite] (Jul. 4, 2004)

choc-top n. Choc-tops are just an ice cream that you’d get from the movies—small ball of ice cream on a cone covered in chocolate. They came pre-made, so they were different to normal ice cream with chocolate. But they were always a special treat when you went to the movies as I was growing up :) [English Australia] [full cite] (Jul. 11, 2004)

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