Words & TermsEveryday life
budgie smugglers
Close-fitting men's swimming briefs.
In a sentence
He turned up at the pool in a bright pair of budgie smugglers.
Where it came from
The Australian National Dictionary Centre and ABC identify the phrase as Australian, first evidenced in the late 1990s and nationally established in the 2000s.
- Initial era
- 1950–1999
- Where used
- Australian use; no narrower regional pattern established