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🦘 Australian Slang
Ambo

An ambulance officer or paramedic.

AustralianAustralia
Arvo

Australian slang for afternoon.

AustralianAustralia
Arvo tea

An afternoon snack or light meal.

AustralianAustralia
Aussie rules

Australian rules football.

AustralianAustralia
Avo

Avocado.

AustralianAustralia
Back of Bourke

A very remote inland location.

AustralianAustralia
Baggy green

The green cricket cap worn by Australian Test players, or the team tradition it represents.

AustralianAustralia
Barbie

A barbecue or event involving barbecued food.

AustralianAustralia
Bathers

A swimming costume, common in parts of southern and western Australia.

AustralianAustralia
Battler

An ordinary person who works hard and persists despite hardship.

AustralianAustralia
Beaut

Excellent, useful or pleasing.

AustralianAustralia
Beauty

An expression of approval meaning excellent or very good.

AustralianAustralia
Bikkie

A biscuit or cookie.

AustralianAustralia
Billy

A metal pot or can used to boil water over a campfire.

AustralianAustralia
Bities

Biting insects such as mosquitoes or sandflies.

AustralianAustralia
Bloke

A man or male person.

AustralianAustralia, United Kingdom
Bloody oath

A strong Australian expression of agreement.

AustralianAustralia
Blues supporter

A supporter of the New South Wales State of Origin team.

AustralianAustralia
Bogan

A stereotype for an unsophisticated or working-class Australian, sometimes used affectionately and sometimes insultingly.

AustralianAustralia
Bonza

Excellent or first-rate, now often considered old-fashioned.

AustralianAustralia
Bottle shop

A retail shop selling takeaway alcohol, often shortened to bottle-o.

AustralianAustralia
Bottle-o

Australian slang for a bottle shop or liquor store.

AustralianAustralia
Brekkie

Australian slang for breakfast.

AustralianAustralia
Brickie

A bricklayer.

AustralianAustralia
Brissie

Brisbane.

AustralianAustralia
Brisvegas

A playful or ironic nickname for Brisbane.

AustralianAustralia
Buckley's

Little or no chance, from the expression Buckley's chance.

AustralianAustralia
Buggered

Very tired, broken or ruined; mildly vulgar in some contexts.

AustralianAustralia
Bull dust

Nonsense or an untrue claim, a milder variation of a vulgar expression.

AustralianAustralia
Bunnings snag

A sausage in bread sold at a community fundraiser outside a Bunnings store.

AustralianAustralia
Bush

Rural or undeveloped country away from cities and towns.

AustralianAustralia
Bush telly

A campfire watched for entertainment while camping.

AustralianAustralia
Bush tucker

Food native to or traditionally sourced from the Australian bush.

AustralianAustralia
Bushie

A person from or comfortable in the Australian bush.

AustralianAustralia
BYO

Bring your own, often referring to alcohol at a restaurant or event.

AustralianAustralia, Global
Cactus

Broken, useless or no longer functioning.

AustralianAustralia