- Acca Dacca - rock band 'AC DC'
- ace – excellent
- ambo - Paramedic, Ambulance Officer
- ‘ang on – wait a moment
- arvo – afternoon
- Aussie - person from Australia (pronounced: Ozzey)
- ‘avago – have a go (usually ‘ya mug’ – you fool – is added); try harder
- bangaroo - marathon sex
- barbie – barbecue or BBQ
- barra - a barramundi fish
- bewdy or bewdy bottler – good; the best
- Beyond the Black Stump – far from the city; the outback
- bickie - biscut or cookie
- bingle – minor car accident
- bludger – layabout, one who wants something for nothing, person who does not work or works very little
- bluey – a swag or blanket roll
- bombed out – unsuccessful; also drunk
- bonza - excellent
- boys in blue - Police
- Brisbanites - people from Brisbane
- buckleys - no chance
- budgy smugglers - swimming atire, also referred to as 'togs'
- burl - 'give it a burl' give it a go; attempt something
- by crickey – an expression of surprise
- cactus – useless, broken
- cark it – to die
- cashed up – having plenty of ready money
- cheesed (off) – bored; fed up
- chewy – chewing gum
- chook – domestic fowl
- chook raffle – a lottery in which the prize is a chicken; usually held in a ‘pub’ (hotel)
- chuck a wobbly – go berserk
- cobber – friend
- cocky – know all; also a small farmer
- combo - combination
- come a cropper – to fall heavily
- cot case – a drunk or exhausted person only fit for bed
- cracking - excellent / get cracking - start something
- Darwin stubby - 2 litre bottle of beer
- deadhead – a stupid person
- deadly - excellent ("The Deadlys" is an award program to recognise the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to their community and to Australian society)
- dead marine – an empty beer bottle (also: dead soldier)
- dead set – certain; assured; used as an exclamation meaning ‘really!’
- dead set against it – uncooperative
- dingy - small aluminium boat
- dinky-di – genuine
- do your lolly (mellon; nana; loaf) – to get very angry
- dob in – to betray or report someone to the authorities; also to nominate someone for an umpleasent task
- don’t get off your bike – calm down
- drongo – stupid person
- dry as a drovers dog – extremely thirsty
- dunny – an outside toilet
- esky – a portable icebox (brand name)
- fair crack of the whip – ease up (also: fair suck of the surf)
- fair dinkum – honest; genuine
- fair enough – alright; acceptable
- fair go – a chance; also an appeal for fairness
- flake (out) – to collapse; to fall asleap
- flat out like a lizard drinking – lying prone; also rushed; extremely busy
- flush – having plenty of money
- fossick – to search for something
- freak out – to have an extreme reaction (good or bad) to something
- full as a goog (tick; boot) – drunk; full of food after a big meal
- game as Ned Kelly – very brave (Ned Kelly was a daring bushranger [robber] in 1878)
- gander - 'have a gander' to 'have a look'
- garbage – an exclamation meaning ‘what rubbish, I don’t believe you!’
- garbo - garbage collector
- g’donya – good for you; well done; can also be sarcastic; or mean ‘I don’t believe you’
- go off like a bucket of prawns in the sun – to create a commotion
- good one – an explanation of approval; or comment that someone is stretching the truth
- good-o – yes, alright
- goon - wine sold inside a bag and cardboard box
- goose - 'you goose' means 'you clown'
- gutful – more than enough (I’ve had a gutful of this – I’ve had enough)
- have tickets on yourself – to be conceited
- hit the deck – to duck; to put your head down
- hit the tin – put money in the kitty; to contribute to a collection of cash
- hoon – a stupid or uncultivated person; also a fast or wreckless driver
- hooroo – goodbye
- jackaroo - male working with cattle or horses
- joolaroo - female working as a jackaroo
- kero - kerosene
- kick in – to help out with money
- knee high to a grasshopper - a yong child (short)
- knock – to criticise, find fault
- knocker – a person who makes derogatory remarks
- larrikin – mischievous, wild or carefree person
- lations - family relatives or 'relations'
- like a hornet in a bottle – furious
- like a possum up a gum tree – moving fast
- like a rat up a drainpipe – moving even faster
- lingo – language
- loaded – extremely wealthy; also very drunk
- local rag - local newspaper
- longkneck - 750ml bottle of beer (also: tallie)
- mackas - McDonalds
- main drag - main road or street through a town
- mate – good or best friend; also used to greet someone as in ‘G’day mate’
- matilda – a blanket roll carried by a swagman
- Melbournians - people from Melbourne
- metho - methylated spirits
- mexicans - people from the state south of yours
- milko - milk home delivery person
- m’oath – my oath; on my oath. bloody oath - i agree
- mug – fool
- mulga – rough country (actually: a type of tree)
- muso - musician
- no-hoper – incompetent person; social misfit
- nosh up – a good meal
- nick – to steal
- nicked – to be caught; (I got nicked – I got caught) go away; (get nicked)
- nick off – to go away; expression meaning ‘lose yourself!’
- nifty – stylish; clever; shrewd to the point of dishonesty
- novocastrian - someone who was born in Newcastle / supporting the local rugby league team.
- ocker – the archetypal uncultivated Australian male
- outback – the inland country far away from large cities
- pear shaped - when things go wrong
- pint of beer - 570ml
- prang – minor car accident
- prawn - shrimp
- pot of beer - 285ml (a 'one pot screamer' is someone who gets drunk off very little alcohol). Also known as a 'middy' or 'half pint'
- pull your head in - stop acting that way
- rack off – to go away
ranga - person with red hair (Julia Gillard former Australian Prime Minister - pictured right)- rego - vehicle registration
- righto - alright
- ring-in – a substitute
- rissole - a type of meatball flattened out; or fat meat patty. (also: 'given the rissole' sacked or fired from employment.
- road train - a truck with many sections attached (some road trains are over a kilometre long)
- rort – a con
- sangers – sandwiches
- schooner of beer - 425ml
- ’scuse me - excuse me
- servo - a petrol station or gas station
- she’ll be apples, she’s sweet – it’ll be fine
- shoot through - to go somewhere else (or he shot through)
- shonky – poor quality
- shotgun - the front passenger seat of a vehicle
- shout – to buy drinks for everyone
- shrapnel - coins of a low denomination
- sickie – a day taken off work, but not necessarily because of illness
- skip – Australian-born (from Skippy the kangaroo [a TV show])
- skite – a bragger
- slack - work left over by a lazy person. To 'pull up the slack' is to do the work left over by others.
- a slash - to take 'a slash' or 'have a slash' - to urinate
- smoko – a break from work (originally a cigarette)
- snags – sausages
- speedo - vehicle speedomoter
- stinker – an objectionable person
- stone the crows – exclamation of astonishment
- stubby - a bottle of beer (330ml) or stubbie / a brand of shorts
- stubby cooler - used to keep your hand warm and a beer cold
- swag – a blanket roll of light bedding
- swagman – a man who travels around the country on foot and takes odd jobs usually in the outback
- Sydneyites - people from Sydney
- ratbag – a rogue; an eccentric person
- rubbish – to criticice; to mock
- servo - petrol station
- ta - thank you
- tall poppy (/syndrome) - a cultural tendancy to cut people down to size - criticise people who excell or achieve significantly / or publicly above others.
- ta-ta – goodbye
- Taswegins - people from Tasmania
- the ditch - water between Australia and New Zealand
- tinnie – a can of beer; a small aluminum boat
- too right – an exclamation meaning ‘I agree’
- top drop – a good beer or wine
- true blue – genuine
- tucker - food
- twit – a fool
- ute – open backed pick-up truck
- veg out – relax
- wag – to play truant
- wheelie – a noisy skidding turn while driving
- wheely bin - a council issued rubbish bin on two wheels
- whinge – to complain
- whopper – something surprisingly big
- woop woop - out in the middle of no where
- wowser – a killjoy; a prudish teetotaler
- write-off – a total loss
- wuss – spoilsport; afraid to have a go
- yakka – hard or heavy work
- yank - American
- yarn - to have a conversation
- yobbo – a loud or stupid uncultivated person
- yonks ago (or yonks and yonks ago) - a long time ago
- zonked (out) – tired out; exhausted
posted this as im always explaining what something means cheersssssssss
