Ausexit
A proposed Australian 'exit', especially ending constitutional ties with the British monarchy or leaving the United Nations.
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The Slang MusterAustralian words and expressions
New Australian slang
Expressions shaped by recent politics, popular culture, schools and digital life.
Explore Australian expressions associated with recent politics, popular culture and digital life. The entry notes explain context and recorded evidence without claiming an exact moment of invention.
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cashed-up bogan
A newly affluent person perceived as retaining stereotypically bogan tastes or behaviour.
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The widely discussed failure of Australia's online 2016 Census system.
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A blended name for Coles and Woolworths, usually implying supermarket-duopoly power.
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Become suddenly angry, annoyed or exasperated.
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Devastated or very disappointed.
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A contemptible, disloyal or unfair action.
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A cigarette, especially a roll-your-own.
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Excellent, impressive or very good; separately, literally very ill.
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To drink beer, especially socially; also a pandemic-era catchphrase/meme.
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A catchphrase from the viral 'Democracy Manifest' arrest footage.
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An expression of approval, thanks, encouragement or sometimes ironic rebuke.
how good is…
A productive enthusiastic formula meaning 'isn't X great?', sometimes used ironically.
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Isolation or self-isolation, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A comic formula for an intuitive, hard-to-articulate justification.
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An illegal punch in Australian rules football disguised or partly obscured by gripping an opponent's jumper.
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A person with both Australian and New Zealand identity, connection or citizenship.
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A discounted price or favourable deal offered through friendship or personal connection.
milkshake duck
A person or thing that becomes an online favourite before troubling information rapidly turns public opinion against them.
not happy, Jan
An expression of displeasure, frustration or dissatisfaction.
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An unnamed or contextually obvious person; sometimes an older man, sometimes merely 'that bloke/person'.
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Debt raised through Australia's automated welfare-recovery program.
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Coronavirus/COVID-19; the pandemic, in informal shortening.
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Broken, exhausted, ruined or in serious trouble; also a vulgar sexual sense.
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A rollout criticised as excessively slow, especially Australia's COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
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A meme phrase from a widely circulated arrest video.
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That price or expectation is unrealistic, from The Castle.
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An assurance meaning certainly, no problem or understood.
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A derogatory label for vehicle fuel-efficiency standards.
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Western Australian secession from Australia; a Brexit-style political coinage.
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