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Australia slang

Slang heard in Australia. 130 words and meanings, most familiar first.

Word	Meaning
gun	Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, or cool.
bob	A 10-cent coin.
bobby	A police officer.
unit	A physically large person.
joey	A young child.
chat	A louse (small, parasitic insect).
flash	Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.
shout	A round of drinks in a pub; the turn to pay the shot or scot; an act of paying for a round of drinks.
legend	A cool, nice or helpful person, especially one who is male.
skip	An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
cock	A stupid, obnoxious or contemptible person.
tube	A tin can containing beer.
bloke	(A lower deck term for) the captain or executive officer of a warship, especially one regarded as tough on discipline and punishment.
barney	A noisy argument.
zombie	Marijuana, or similar drugs.
sheila	A woman.
willy	The penis.
burke	To murder by suffocation.
bugger	A foolish or worthless person or thing; a despicable person.
pigeon	A weak or useless person.
stack	A fall or crash, a prang.
crook	Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
bollocks	An expression of anger, frustration, etc.
fang	To drive, ride, etc. at high speed or recklessly.
cracker	A fine, great thing or person (crackerjack).
coaster	An itinerant person who shirks work but still seeks food and lodging; a loafer, a sundowner.
pong	A stench, a bad smell.
git	A silly, incompetent, stupid, or annoying person (usually a man).
para	Very drunk
geezer	Someone affable but morally dubious; a wide boy.
gob	The mouth.
hoop	A jockey.
sook	A crybaby, a complainer, a whinger; a shy or timid person, a wimp; a coward.
cobbler	A sheep left to the end to be sheared (for example, because its wool is filthy, or because it is difficult to catch).
ruddy	A mild intensifier, expressing irritation.
septic	An American, a Yank.
mono	A bicycle or motorcycle trick where the front wheel is lifted off the ground while riding
corky	A deep bruise, usually on the leg or buttock, caused by a blow; a haematoma.
mongrel	A thuggish, obnoxious, or contemptible person; (often preceded by "poor") a pitiable person.
spunk	An attractive person (normally male).
cooker	A person who makes or uses illicit drugs, especially methamphetamine or cannabis.
jocks	Men's briefs.
prawn	A fool, an idiot.
wag	To play truant from school.
hatter	A person who lives alone in the bush.
strides	Trousers.
hoon	A worthless person; a hooligan or lout.
tosser	A male who masturbates.
ponce	A man living off another's earnings, especially a woman's.
pom	An Englishman; a Briton; a person of British descent.
grundy	A pair of underpants
bleeder	A troublesome fellow or thing; a blighter.
moll	Bitch, slut; an insulting epithet applied to a female.
scone	To hit on the head.
mong	A mongrel dog.
motherless	Very, completely (especially in reference to drunkenness)
boozer	A public house, pub.
skint	Penniless, poor, impecunious, broke.
chippy	A carpenter.
punter	One who gambles. See speculator.
limey	An Englishman or other Briton, or a person of British descent; an English or British immigrant.
crawler	A sycophant.
paralytic	Very drunk.
freckle	The anus.
neddy	A horse, especially a racehorse.
peeler	A police officer.
bagman	A bookmaker.
skyrocket	Pocket.
scull	To drink the entire contents of (a drinking vessel) without pausing.
spoof	Semen.
bludge	The act of bludging.
bludger	A pimp, a man living off the earnings of a harlot.
bogan	An unsophisticated person from a working class background.
codswallop	Senseless talk or writing; nonsense; rubbish.
cornstalk	A non-indigenous native of New South Wales.

Word	Meaning
donk	A car's engine.
jemmy	An immigrant.
lugger	A conman.
nobble	To injure or obstruct intentionally.
ocker	A boorish or uncultivated Australian.
pash	To snog, to make out, to kiss.
piddle	Piss: urine.
piker	One who refuses to go out with friends, or leaves a party early; a spoilsport or "chicken".
skeg	A surfer; a person who leads a surfing lifestyle.
slushy	A kitchen helper.
snowdrop	To steal clothing (especially women's underwear) from a clothesline.
turps	Any alcoholic drink.
unco	Uncoordinated.
yobbo	A yob.
nong	An idiot.
choco	A person with dark skin tone.
abo	An aborigine; aboriginal.
alco	An alcoholic.
bikie	A motorcyclist who is a member of a club; a biker.
blanky	A mild intensifier, expressing irritation.
bodgie	A member of a 1950s rock subculture; a teddy boy.
boong	An Australian Aboriginal person.
bulldust	Nonsense; blatantly false statements.
chunder	Vomit.
darb	A cigarette.
dinkum	Genuine, true, honest, on the level.
drongo	A fool, an idiot, a stupid fellow.
droob	An ineffectual or unattractive person; a dag.
faff	An overcomplicated task, especially one perceived as a waste of time.
festy	Disgusting.
franger	A condom.
furphy	A rumour, or an erroneous or improbable story.
galah	A fool, an idiot.
gobby	Inclined to talk in a loud and offensive manner.
goog	An egg.
grotty	Unpleasant, dirty, slovenly or offensive.
hazed	Drunk.
larrikin	A high-spirited person who playfully rebels against authority and conventional norms.
manky	Unpleasantly dirty and disgusting.
minge	The pubic hair and vulva.
narky	Irritated, in a bad mood; disparaging.
nutting	Thinking very hard or puzzling over something.
pokie	A poker machine.
possie	A firing position.
quod	Confinement in a prison.
sambo	A sandwich.
shicer	A worthless thing or person, especially a swindler.
silvertail	A wealthy person.
sooky	Complaining, whingeing, sad; jealous.
stroppy	Ornery, fractious, belligerent, or obstreperous, and hence difficult to deal with.
swy	A two-year prison sentence.
troppo	Crazy, mad, strangely behaving; especially as attributed to hot weather.
wanky	Like a wanker; foolish or objectionable.
widgie	A female bodgie.
yob	A person who engages in antisocial behaviour or drunkenness.

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0). Sources