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Amber fluid: beer
Ankle biter: small child
Apples, she'll be: it'll be all right
Arvo: afternoon
Aussie salute: brushing away flies with the hand
Back of Bourke: a very long way away
Banana bender: someone from Queensland
Barbie: barbecue (noun)
Beauty: great
Bloke: guy
Bloody: very
Blowie: blow fly
Bludger: lazy person
Blue: fight
Bodgy: inferior quality
Bogged: vehicle stuck in mud
Boogie board: a hybrid, half-sized surf board
Bored shitless: very bored
Bottle shop: liquor shop
Brekkie: breakfast
Brizzie: Brisbane
Bundy: short for Bundaberg, Queensland, and the brand of rum that's made there
Bush oyster: nasal mucus
Bush telly: campfire
BYO: bring your own grog (alcohol)
Cab Sav: Cabernet Sauvignon
Cane toad: a person from Queensland
Chewie: chewing gum
Chook: chicken
Chuck a sickie: take the day off sick from work when you're perfectly healthy
Chunder: vomit
Click: kilometer
Cobber: friend
Cockie: cockatoo
Cook: wife
Cozzie: swimming costume
Crack onto: to hit on someone, pursue someone romantically
Crook: sick
Dag: funny person
Daks: trousers
Dead horse: ketchup
Dickhead: see whacker
Dill: an idiot
Dinkum, fair dinkum: true, real, genuine
Dinky-di: the real thing
Dipstick: loser, idiot
Dob in: inform on somebody
Dog: unattractive woman
Dog's balls, stands out like: obvious
Drongo: stupid person
Drop kick: see ‘dipstick'
Dummy spit: get very upset at something
Dunny: outside toilet
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Esky: large insulated food container
Fair go: give the bloke a go
Flake: shark's flesh
Footy: Australian rules football
Fruit loop: fool
Full: drunk
Furphy: false
G'day: hello!
Galah: silly person
Gobful: to abuse justifiably
Gobsmacked: surprised
Greenie: environmentalist
Grog: liquor, beer
Gutful of piss: drunk
Handle: beer glass with handle
Hoon: hooligan
Hooroo: goodbye
Icy pole: popsicle
Knock: to criticize
Knock back: refusal
Knocker: somebody who criticises
Lair: flashily dressed young man of brash and vulgar behaviour
Lippy: lipstick
Liquid laugh: vomit
Longneck: 750 ml bottle of beer in South Australia
Lucky Country: Australia
Maccas: McDonald's
Mate: friend
Middy: 285 ml beer glass in New South Wales
Milk bar: corner shop
Mob: group of people
Moolah: money
Mozzie: mosquito
Mug: friendly insult
Nipper: young surf lifesaver
No worries!: Expression of forgiveness or reassurance
Ho-hoper: somebody who'll never do well
Nuddy: naked
Ocker: an unsophisticated person
Oz: Australia!
Pash: long kissh
Pav: sugar and creamy Australian desert.
Piece of piss: easy task
Perve: looking lustfully at the opposite sex
Piss: beer
Plonk: cheap wine
Pom: an Englishman
Pot: 285 ml beer glass in Queensland and Victoria
Prezzy: gift
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Quid, make a: earn a living
Rick off: push off!
Rage: party
Rage on: to continue to party
Reckon!: absolutely
REgo: vehicle registration
She'll be right: it'll be all right
Rip snorter: fantastic Rock up: to turn up , to arrive
Roo: kangaroo
Ropeable: very angry
Rotten: drunk
Rubbish: to criticize
Sanger: sandwich
Schooner: large beer glass in Queensland
Scratchy: instant lottery ticket
Servo: gas station
Sheila: a woman
Shit house: poor quality
Shonky: dubious, underhanded
Shoot through: to leave
Shout: turn to buy (beer)
Slab: a carton of 24 bottles or cans of beer
Smoko: smoke or coffee break
Snag: sausage
Sprung: caught doing something wrong
Stickybeak: nosy person
Stoked: very excited
Stuffed: I'm tired
Sunnies: sunglasses
Surfies: people who go surfing
Tall poppies: successful people
Tallie: 750 ml bottle of beer
Thongs: cheap rubber backless sandals
Tinny: canof beer
Togs: swim suit
Too right!: definitely!
Trackies: track suit
True blue: patriotic
Tucker: food
Ute: utility vehicle, pickup truck
Vegies: vegetable
Veg out: relax in front of the TV
Wag: playing truant from school
Whacker: idiot
White pointers: topless (female) sunbathers
Whinge: complain
Wuss: coward
Yakka: work
Yobbo: an uncouth person
Zack: money - it isn't worth a zack
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