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Below is a list of some of the Aussie Slang terms used in Australia today:-

Aerial Pingpong- Australian Rules football
Ace- excellent, very good
Aggro- aggressive
Alkie- alcoholic
Amber Fluid- beer
Ambo- ambulance
Ankle Biter- infant
Arvo- afternoon
Aussie- Australian
Aussie Salute- using hand to wave away annoying flies

Back of Bourke- term used to describe anywhere far away
Bail out- depart, usually angrily
Bail Up- to rob or hold up; bail someone up in the street for a chat
Banana bender- a person from Queensland
Barbie/BBQ- barbecue
Barrack- to cheer on (football team etc.)
Battler- someone working hard and only just making a living
Beaut- great, fantastic
Beyond the Black Stump- a long way away or the back of nowhere
Big bikkies- it was expensive
Big-note oneself - to boast
Bikkie- biscuit
Bities- biting insects
Bizzo- business (mind your own bizzo)
Bloke- man, guy
Bloody- very (bloody hard yakka)
Bloody oath- that's certainly true
Blow in the bag- have a breathalyser test
Blowie- blow fly
Bludger- lazy person, somebody who always relies on other people to do things
Blue- fight (he was in a blue), make a mistake
Bluey- traffic ticket
Bodgy- of inferior quality
Bog in- to eat food with enthusiasm
Bonzer- great
Booze bus- police vehicle used for catching drunk drivers
Boozer- a pub
Bored shitless- very bored
Bottler- something excellent
Brass razoo- [he hasn't got a brass razoo] very poor
Brekkie- breakfast
Brickie- bricklayer
Brizzie- Brisbane, state capital of Queensland
Buckley's chance- no chance at all
Built like a brick shit house- big strong bloke
BYO- Bring Your Own [usually beer or other drinks]

Cactus- dead, not functioning ("this washing machine is cactus")
Cark it- to die, cease functioning
Chrissie- Christmas
Chuck a sickie- take the day off sick from work when you're perfectly healthy
Chuck or Chunder- to vomit
Click- kilometre [it's 50 clicks away]
Clucky- feeling maternal
Cobber- friend
Cockie- farmer, also a cockatoo
Coldie- a beer
Come a gutser- make a bad mistake, have an accident
Compo- Workers' Compensation pay
Cranky- in a bad mood, angry
Crook- sick, or badly made
Crow eater- a person from South Australia

Dag- a funny person
Daks- trousers
Dead horse- Tomato sauce
Deadset- true, the truth
Dero- tramp, hobo, homeless person
Digger- a soldier
Dill- an idiot
Dinky-di- the real thing, genuine
Dipstick- a loser, idiot
Dob (somebody) in- inform on somebody, a tell-tale
Dog- unattractive woman
Dole bludger- somebody on social assistance when unjustified
Doozey- something very pleasant, large
Down Under- Australia and New Zealand
Drink with the flies- to drink alone
Drongo- a dope, stupid person
Dunny- toilet

Esky- large insulated food/drink container for picnics, barbecues etc.

Fair dinkum- true, genuine
Fair go- a chance
Fair suck of the sav- exclamation of wonder, awe, disbelief
Feral- crude
Fit as Mallee Bull- very fit and strong
Fat out like a lizard drinking- very busy
Flick- to give something or somebody the flick is to get rid of it or them
Footy- Australian Rules football
Franger- condom
Fruit loop- fool

G'Day - hello
Galah - fool
Garbo- municipal garbage collector
Get mad as a cut snake- mad as ,very angry
Give it a burl- try it, have a go
Gobful [to give a]- to abuse, usually justifiably
Good oil- useful information, a good idea, the truth
Good onya- good for you, well done
Grinning like a fox- very happy, smugly satisfied
Grog- liquor, beer
Grouse- great, terrific, very good
Gutful of piss- drunk [he's got a gutful of piss]

Have a lend of- to take advantage of somebody's gullibility, to have someone on
Have a Naughty-
have sex
Heaps- a lot [thanks heaps]
His blood's worth bottling bottling- an excellent, helpful bloke.
Hit the Turps- go on a drinking binge
Holy dooley- an exclamation of surprise
Hoon- hooligan
Hottie- hot water bottle

Journo- journalist

Kangaroos loose in the top paddock- Intellectually inadequate
Knock- to criticise
Knock back- refusal 
Knocker- somebody who criticises

Larrikin- a bloke who is always enjoying himself, harmless prankster
Lippy- lipstick
Liquid laugh- vomit
Lob in- drop in to see someone
Loo- toilet
Lurk- illegal or underhanded racket

Maccas- McDonald's (the hamburger place)
Make a quid- earn a living 
Mate- buddy, friend
Mate's rate, mate's discount- cheaper than usual for a "friend"
Mongrel- despicable person
Moolah- money
Mozzie- mosquito
Mug- gullible person

No worries- Expression of forgiveness or reassurance
No hoper- somebody who'll never do well
Not the full quid- not bright intellectually
Nuddy [in the]- naked

Ocker- an unsophisticated person
Off your face- drunk
Oldies- parents
Oz- Australia

Pash- a long passionate kiss
Perve- looking lustfully at the opposite sex
Piece of piss- an 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 [sink some piss]
Plonk- cheap wine
Pokies- poker/slot machines
Polly- politician
Postie- postman, mailman
Pot- 285 ml beer glass
Pozzy- position [get a good pozzy to watch the football]
Prezzy- present, gift

Rack off - go away [rack off will you]
Rage- to party
Rage on- to continue partying
Rapt- pleased, delighted
Reckon- you bet, absolutely
Rellie- family relative
Ridgy didge- original, genuine
Rip snorter- great, fantastic [it was a rip snorter of a party]
Ripper- great, fantastic
Rock up- to turn up, to arrive
Rort - Cheating, fiddling, defrauding (expenses, the system etc.)

Sandgroper- a person from Western Australia
Sanger- a sandwich
Scratchy- instant lottery ticket
Servo- petrol station
She'll be right- it'll turn out okay
Sheila- a woman
Shoot through- to leave
Shout- turn to buy a round of drinks usually [it's your shout]
Sickie- day off sick from work [sometimes when you are not even sick]
Slab- packaged beer containing  24 cans of beer
Smoko- smoke or coffee break
Snag- a sausage
Spewin- very angry, upset
Spit the dummy- get very upset at something
Sprung- caught doing something wrong
Spunk- a good looking person
Squizz - to take a look at
Stands out like dog's balls- obvious
Stickybeak- nosy person
Stoked- very pleased
Strewth- exclamation, mild oath [Strewth, what was that]
Stubby- a 375ml. beer bottle
Stubby holder- polystyrene insulated holder for a stubby
Stuffed [I feel]- being tired
Stuffed [I'll be]- expression of surprise
Sunnies- sunglasses
Surfies- people who go surfing

Taswegian- a person from Tasmania
Technicolor yawn- vomit
Tee-up- to set up (an appointment)
Tickets [to have on oneself]- to have a high opinion of oneself
Tinny- can of beer, lucky
Togs- swim suit
Too right- definitely!
Trackie daks- tracksuit pants
Trackies- track suit
Truckie- truck driver
True blue- truly Australian
Tucker- food

Up oneself- have a high opinion of oneself [he's really up himself]
Ute- utility vehicle, pickup truck

Vegies- vegetables
Vee dub- Volkswagen
Veg out- relax in front of the TV ect

Waggin' school- playing truant
Whinge- to complain
White pointers- topless (female) sunbathers
Wobbly- excitable behaviour [he threw a wobbly]
Wog- flu or trivial illness, person of Mediterranean origin
Woop Woop- invented name for any small unimportant town [he lives in Woop Woop]
Wowser- straight-laced person, prude
Wuss- coward; nervous person

Yabber- talk (a lot)
Yakka- work [hard yakka]
Yewy- u-turn in traffic
Yobbo- an uncouth person

 

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