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Aerial Ping-Pong: Australian Rules Football
Arvo: afternoon (also evo used for evening)
Alligator pear: avocado
Back of Bourke: a long way away, inland and away from civilization
Blowies: blow flies
Bludger: lazy person, usually applied to one who lives on the dole and who doesn't try finding work.
Blue (noun): a row, quarrel, or fight
Boomer: large male kangaroo (six white boomers pull Santa's sleigh)
Bush telegraph: The local gossip network
Cactus: dead or something mechanical that has broken down
Chuck a leftie: turn left
Crook: sick, ill
Cooee (within a cooee): nearby, stone's throw, shouting distance
Daks: trousers or shorts (underpants, in New Zealand)
Dinkum: real, genuine Quite often used in the phrase fair dinkum.
Donk: engine for a car or boat
Doona: a continental quilt, or a quilt with a down filling
Dunny: an outside toilet
Esky: portable insulated container for keeping food or drink cool
Floater: meat pie floating in thick pea soup (delicious apparently)
Galah: an idiot (named after a noisy parrot)
Gun: good at something, or the best at whatever it is
Jackaroo: male cattle or sheep station hand (also female: Jillaroo)
Jaffle: a toasted sandwich
Larrikin: a rowdy irresponsible rascal
Manchester: household linen
Ocker: stereotypical uncultivated Australian (similar to redneck)
Onya: Well Done (shortened form of Good On You)
Rack off: Go away, get lost!
Ripper: great, terrific
Rort: a rip-off, loophole, defrauding the system
Sandshoes: trainers
Schoolies: high school kids
Schooner: large beer glass
Smoko: a break from work for a smoke, which now means a tea break even if you don’t smoke.
Slab: a pack of 24 beer cans
Snag: sausage
Stoked: thrilled, delighted, can also mean drunk
Stubby: small bottle of beer
Thongs: flip-flops
Tinnie: a can of beer
Troppo: mad, crazy
True blue: genuine or really Australian
Two-up: traditional gambling game played with two coins
Ute: a pickup truck (utility vehicle)
Yabbies: freshwater crayfish
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