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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)
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