Discover Australia - Strayan Slang

Dictionary - A B C D E

A
Aerial Ping-Pong - Australian Rules Football.
Akubra - A wide-brimmed hat made from felted rabbit fur.
Aussie Salute - Brushing flies away from the face with a hand.
Ankle Biter - A young child, usually prior to starting school.
ANZAC - Formed from the initial letters of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps.
Arc up - To lose one's temper.
Arvo - Afternoon.
Aussie - Australia/Australian.

B
B&S Ball - Bachelor and Spinster Ball, a dance for single, rural people to meet.
Bail Up - To corner somebody physically.
Bail Out - Depart, get out.
Baggie/Sappy Bag - Little plastic bag for drugs.
Barby/Sausage Sizzle - BBQ.
Battler - An ordinary person, of the working class, an underdog, stoic against life's adversity.
Beaut, Beauty - Great, fantastic.
Beer O'clock - Time for a beer or alcohol.
Berko - To be really angry.
Big-Note - Brag, boast.
Big Smoke - A big city, particularly a capital city.
Billy - Teapot, container for boiling water, a bong or marijuana smoking water pipe.
Bindi-Eye/Bindii - A painfully spiky plant to bare feet that grows in lawns.
Bingle - A car crash or accident.
Bitzer - A dog of different breeds, not purebred, also 'Mongrel'.
Blimey/Fair Dinkum - An exclamation of surprise, disbelief, exasperation.
Bloke - An Australian man.
Bloody oath - Yes/True/Definitely.
Blotto - Very drunk.
Bludger - Someone who doesn't work hard.
Blue - A fight or someone with red hair.
Blue Heeler - An Australian breed of dog or a police officer.
Bodgie - Something or someone that is fake, false, or worthless.
Bog Standard - plain, basic or without accessories.
Bogan - A lower class, crass type of person.
Bogey Hole - Swimming or bathing hole.
Bogged - Stuck in mud, sand.
Boofhead - Fool, simpleton, silly person, someone thick in the head.
Boogie Board - A hybrid, half-sized surfboard.
Boomer - Large male kangaroo, generation of people born 1946 to 1964
Booze Bus - Police vehicle used for catching drunk drivers.
Boozer - A pub, a drunk.
Bored Shitless - Very bored.
Bottle-o/Bottle Shop - Liquor shop.
Brown-Eyed Mullet - A shit in the water.
Brumby - A wild horse.
Buckley's/Buckley's Nunn - No chance.
Budgie Smugglers - Men's swimming briefs.
Bull Bar/Roo Bar - Metal bar fixed to the front of a vehicle to protect it against hitting roos.
Bulldust - Very fine powdery dust, polite way of saying bullshit.
Bundy - Bunderberg, a town and brand of rum from there.
Bunyip - An amphibious monster supposed to inhabit inland rivers, swamps, and billabongs.
Bush - The Outback, anywhere that isn't in town.
Bush Bash - Long competition, or trek through the bush.
Bush Oyster - Nasal mucus.
Bushie - Someone who lives in the Bush
Bushranger - Highwayman, outlaw.

C
Cactus/Cark It - Dead, to die, to cease functioning.
Camp Oven - A metal pot with a heavy lid, used for cooking in an open fire.
Checkout Chick - A checkout operator at a supermarket.
Chokkas - Something that is very full.
Chop/Chop Up - Marijuana chopped up for smoking.
Chroming - Sniffing spray paint or other inhalents, also 'huffing or sniffing'.
Cleanskin - An animal that hasn't been branded.
Click - Kilometre, a measure of distance.
Clucky - Feeling maternal.
Cone/Cone piece - A piece used for smoking drugs.
Cooee - A call used to communicate with someone at a distance.
Corroboree - An aboriginal dance festival.
Cow Cocky - Cow farmer or station worker.
Cozzie - Swimming costume.
Crack Onto - To hit on someone, pursue someone romantically.
Creamed - Defeat by a large margin.
Crook - Bad, unwell or dishonest, illegal.

D
Dag - An unfashionable or socially awkward or silly person, a goof.
Daks - Trousers.
Deadset - True, the truth
Dero - Tamp, hobo, homeless person, shortened from derelict.
Digger - An Australian soldier.
Dipstick - A loser, an idiot, a part of a car.
Dob in - Turn someone in.
Dole Bludger - Somebody on social assistance payments.
Donger - Penis
Doovalacky - When you can't remember a name, Thingummyjig, Whatsit, Thingo.
Dreamtime - A traditional Aboriginal belief, a collection of events beyond living memory that shaped the physical, spiritual, and moral world.
Drongo - An idiot or fool.
Drop Bear - Animal similar in appearance to a koala, with very sharp teeth.
Dunny/Thunderbox - A toilet.
Durry - A cigarette, smoke.

E
Earbash - To talk a lot or to harass someone.
Esky - Portable insulated food/drink container, a cooler or icebox.
Ekky - MDMA/Ecstasy also 'Pinger'.