Australian Slang

Ace! :	Excellent! Very good!
Arvo :	afternoon
Amber fluid :	beer
Aussie :	Australian
Beaut, beauty :	great, fantastic
Big Mobs :	loads, a lot of
Bloody :	very
Bloody oath! :	that's certainly true
Blue :	argument/mistake
Bodgy :	poor quality
Bonzer :	great, ripper
Bottler :	something excellent
Bottling : his blood's worth:	he's an excellent, helpful bloke
Buckley's chance : (you've got)	no chance
Bull dust :	rubbish
Cactus :	dead, broken
Cark it :	to die, stop working
Chocka :	full up
Click :	kilometre - "it's 20 clicks away"
Come a gutser :	a bad mistake or have an accident
Come good :	turn out ok
Cooee, not within :	figuratively a long way away
Cost big bikkies :	expensive
Crack a fat :	get an erection
Cream, to :	defeat by a large margin
Cut snake : (mad as a)	very angry
Dead dingo's donger : (as dry as a)	dry
Deadset :	true / the truth
Dingo's breakfast :	no breakfast
Dinkum / fair dinkum :	true, real, genuine
Dinky-di :	the real thing, genuine
Docket :	a bill, receipt
Doco :	documentary
Drink with the flies :	to drink alone
Dunny rat : (cunning as a)	very cunning
Exy :	expensive
Fair dinkum :	true, genuine
Fair go :	a chance / break
Fair suck of the sav! :	exclamation of wonder, awe, disbelief
Furphy :	rumour
G'Day :	hello!
Give it a burl :	try it, have a go
Give it away :	give up
Going off :	good fun
Good oil :	useful information, a good idea, the truth
Good onya :	well done
Grouse :	great, terrific
Heaps :	a lot
Iffy :	dodgy
It's gone walkabout :	it's lost, can't be found
Kangaroos loose in the top paddock :	Intellectually inadequate
Kick the bucket :	to die
Knock back :	refuse
London to a brick :	absolute certainty
Lunch : (who opened their?)	OK, who farted?
Mate's rate :	cheaper than usual for a friend
Mate's discount :	cheaper than usual for a friend
No worries! :	no problem / its okay
Nun's nasty : (as dry as a)	very dry
Piece of piss :	easy task
Pig's arse! :	I don't agree
Plate, bring a :	Instruction to bring a plate of food to a party
Pozzy :	position
Quid, make a :	earn a living
Rack off :	get lost! get out of here!
Reckon! :	for sure
Ridgy-didge :	original, genuine
Right :	okay
Ripper :	Great
Rooted :	ruined, broken
She'll be apples :	It'll be alright
She'll be right :	it'll be okay
Sparrows fart :	dawn
Strewth :	exclamation
Stoked :	very pleased
Stuffed, I'll be :	expression of surprise
Too right :	definitely
Turps, hit the :	go on a drinking binge
Zack, not worth a :	not worth anything

Australian Slang

Ankle biter :	small child
Aussie :	Australian
Bastard :	an unpleasant person; affectionate appellation, e.g. what you been doing, you old bastard?
Battler :	a hard worker only just making a living
Beaut / beauty :	great, fantastic
Bingle :	minor car accident / fight
Block, do your :	get angry
Bloke :	man, guy
Blokey :	behaving 'manly'
Blow in :	stranger
Bludger :	layabout
Bogan :	young, immature person
Bounce :	a bully
Brickie :	bricklayer
Bushie :	someone who lives in the Bush
Bushranger :	outlaw
Cadbury :	a cheap drunk (a glass and a half)
Clayton's :	fake, substitute
Clucky :	feeling broody or maternal
Cobber :	friend
Cockie :	farmer. Also a cockatoo
Cook :	one's wife
Cranky :	in a bad mood, angry
Crook :	sick, or badly made
Dag :	a funny person, nerd
Dero :	tramp, hobo, homeless person (from "derelict")
Digger :	a soldier
Dill :	an idiot
Dipstick :	fool / idiot
Dog :	unattractive woman
Dole bludger :	signing on illegally
Drongo :	a dope, stupid person
Figjam :	Someone who has a high opinion of themselves
Fisho :	fishmonger
Frog in a sock : (as cross as a)	sound angry
Fruit loop :	fool
Full :	drunk
Galah :	fool
Garbo, garbologist :	municipal garbage collector
Greenie :	environmentalist
Grey hairs :	old people
Gutful of piss :	drunk
Gyno :	gynaecologist
Brass razoo : (hasn't got a)	he's very poor
Hoon :	hooligan
Jackaroo :	a male farm hand
Jillaroo :	a female farmhand
Journo :	journalist
Jumped up :	stuck up
Kiwi :	person from New Zealand
Knocker :	somebody who criticises
Larrikin :	a joker
Mallee bull: (as fit as a)	very fit and strong
Mate :	buddy, friend
Milko :	milkman
Mob :	group of people
Mongrel :	despicable person
Mongrel :	nasty person
Mug :	gullible person
Nipper :	young surf lifesaver
No-hoper :	somebody who'll never do well
Not the full quid :	not bright intellectually
Oldies :	parents
Ocker :	an unsophisticated person
Offsider :	an assistant / helper / partner
Piker :	social misfit / drop out
Polly :	politician
Pom /pommy :	an Englishman
Postie :	postman
Quid, not the full :	of low IQ
Rapt :	pleased, delighted
Ratbag :	mild insult
Raw prawn : ( to come the)	to be generally disagreeable
Reffo :	refugee
Rellie :	family relative
Ring in :	substitute
Rotten :	drunk
Salvos :	Salvation Army
Screamer :	party lover
Shark biscuit :	new surfer
Sheila :	a woman
Shonky :	dubious, underhanded
Skimpy :	barely clothed bar staff
Sook :	soft or inoffensive person
Spunk :	a good looking person
Stickybeak :	nosy person
Stuffed, I feel :	I'm tired
Surfies :	people who go surfing - more than they go to work!
Swaggie :	swagman
Swagman :	tramp, hobo
Tall poppies :	successful people
Tall poppy syndrome :	the tendency to criticize successful people
Tickets : ( to have on oneself)	to have a high opinion of oneself
Truckie :	truck driver
True blue :	patriotic
Two pot screamer :	person who gets drunk easily
Up oneself :	have a high opinion of oneself
Useless as : an ashtray on a motorbike	Incompetent or unhelpful
Useless as : tits on a bull	Incompetent or unhelpful
Vejjo :	vegetarian
White pointers :	topless (female) sunbathers
Woos :	coward
Wombat :	a person who eats, roots and leaves
Wowser :	spoilsport
Wuss :	coward; nervous person or animal
Yobbo :	ignorant person
Youse :	you (plural)

Australian Slang

Aerial pingpong :	Australian Rules football
Amber fluid :	beer
Avos :	avocados
Barbie :	barbecue (noun)
Bathers :	swimming costume
Bikkie :	biscuit
Billy :	large tin can to boil water over a campfire
Bitumen :	surfaced road
Bondi cigar :	muck floating in the sea
Boogie board :	body board
Boomerang :	Aboriginal tool for hunting
Booze bus :	police van for breathalysing
Brekkie :	breakfast
Brown-eyed mullet :	muck floating in the sea
Bull bar :	stout bar fixed to the front of a vehicle
Bull dust :	outback dust
Bush telly :	campfire
Bush tucker :	native outback food
Chewie :	chewing gum
Chokkie :	chocolate
Chunder :	vomit
Clobber :	clothes
Coldie :	a beer
Compo :	Workers' Compensation pay
Counter lunch / meal :	pub lunch
Cozzie :	swimming costume
Cut lunch :	sandwiches
Daks :	trousers
Damper :	bread made from flour and water
Date :	behind (rear end)
Didgeridoo :	Aboriginal instrument
Dilly bag :	Aboriginal carrying bag
Docket :	a bill, receipt
Donger :	penis
Doodle :	penis
Doozey :	something very pleasant, significant, large
Duchess :	sideboard
Dunny :	outside lavatory
Durry :	cigarette
Esky :	coolbox
Fairy floss :	candy floss, cotton candy
Flake :	shark meat
Fly wire :	gauze flyscreen covering a window or doorway
Franger :	condom
Freckle :	anus
Grog :	alcohol / beer
Grundies :	underwear
Handle :	beer glass with a handle
Hottie :	hot water bottle
Icy pole :	ice lolly
Jocks :	male pants
Kero :	kerosene
Knacker :	testicle
Lemon :	faulty product
Lippy :	lipstick
Liquid laugh :	vomit
Lollies :	sweets
Loo :	toilet
Mappa Tassie :	females pubic hair area
Matilda :	swagman's bedding, sleeping roll
Metho :	methylated spirits
Middy :	New South Wales beer glass (285ml)
Muddy :	mud crab
Munchies :	snacks, nibbles
Pav :	Pavlova
Plonk :	cheap wine
Pokies :	fruit machines
Port :	suitcase
Pot :	Large beer (in Victoria)
Prezzy :	present, gift
Rego :	vehicle registration
Road train :	a very big lorry with many trailors
Rollie :	a cigarette that you roll yourself
Sanger :	a sandwich
Schooner :	large beer glass in QLD and NSW
Schooner :	small beer glass in South Australia
Scratchy :	instant lottery ticket
Shout :	a round of drinks
Slab :	crate of beer
Snag :	a sausage
Spag bol :	spaghetti bolognese
Strides :	trousers
Stubby :	a 375ml beer bottle
Stubby holder :	beer bottle cooler
Sunnies :	sunglasses
Swag :	roll up canvas bed for camping
Thongs :	flip flops
Tinny :	can of beer / small aluminium boat
Togs :	swimming stuff
Trackies :	track suit
Tucker :	food
Tucker-bag :	food bag
Turps :	turpentine
Get on the Turps :	drink alcohol
Ute :	utility vehicle
Vedgies :	vegetables
Vee dub :	Volkswagen
Whipper Snipper :	garden strimmer
XXXX :	Four X, Queensland brand of beer
Zack :	sixpence (5 cents)

Australian Slang

B & S :	Bachelors' and Spinsters' Ball
Buck's night :	stag night
Corroboree :	an aboriginal dance festival
Footy :	Football - including Australian Rules (VIC / SA), Rugby League (NSW / QLD), Rugby Union and Soccer
Nasho :	National Service
Smoko :	smoke or coffee break
Two up :	gambling game played by spinning two coins simultaneously

Australian Slang

Aussie salute :	brushing away flies with the hand
Bail out :	depart often angrily
Bail (somebody) up :	to corner somebody physically
Barrack :	to cheer on
Big-note oneself :	brag, boast
Blue :	fight/argue
Blow in the bag :	have a breathalyzer test
Bog in :	tuck in, commence eating
Bot :	to scrounge
Burl :	have a go
Captain Cook :	look ("let's have a Captain Cook")
Chuck a Uey :	do a u turn
Dob in :	to inform on somebody
Drum :	tip-off
Dummy, spit the :	get very upset at something
Earbashing :	nagging
Face, off one's :	drunk
Flat out :	busy
Flick :	to dump your partner
Flick it on :	to sell something soon after buying it
Flog :	to sell / steal
Fossicking :	search / rummage
Game :	up for it
Get up somebody :	to rebuke somebody
Gobful, give a :	to abuse verbally
Grinning like a shot fox :	very happy, smugly satisfied
Knock :	to put down / criticise
Lair it up :	to behave in a brash and vulgar manner
Lend of, to have a :	to take advantage of someone
Lizard drinking, flat out like a :	very busy
Lob in :	drop in to see someone
Muster :	round up sheep or cattle
Naughty, have a :	have sex
Nuddy, in the :	naked
Pash :	passionate kiss
Perve :	looking lustfully at the opposite sex
Pommy shower :	using deodorant instead of taking a shower
Plate :	bring your own / some food (often to a BBQ)
Rack off :	get lost!
Rage on :	to continue partying
Rapt :	pleased
Rock up :	to turn up, arrive
Root :	have sex
Rooted :	tired
Ropeable :	very angry
Rort :	Cheating, defrauding
Rubbish, to :	to criticize
Session, to have :	go out drinking
Shankys's pony :	to travel on foot
Shoot through :	to leave
Sickie, throw a :	have a day off due to illness
Skite :	boast, brag
Smoko, have a :	take a break
Spewin :	very angry
Spit the dummy :	get very upset at something
Sprung :	caught doing something
Squizz :	to look
Sunbake :	sunbathe
Technicolor yawn :	to be sick
Tee-up :	to set up (an appointment)
Waggin' school :	playing truant
Walkabout :	wander off
Whinge :	complain
Whiteant :	to criticising competitors products
Wobbly, throw a :	go mad
Veg out :	relax in front of the TV
Yabber :	talk a lot
Yakka :	work (noun)
Yewy :	u-turn in traffic

Australian Slang

Bities :	biting insects
Bitzer :	mongrel dog
Blowie :	blow fly
Bluey :	blue working cattle dog
Boomer :	large male kangaroo
Brumby :	wild horse
Bunyip :	mythical outback creature
Chook :	chicken
Dunny Budgie :	blowfly
Freshie :	freshwater crocodile
Joey :	baby kangaroo
Jumbuck :	sheep
Kelpie :	Australian sheepdog originally bred from Scottish collie
Mozzie :	mosquito
Roo :	kangaroo
Saltie :	saltwater crocodile