Hotel, Pub, Club: Bar
Up in stitches, Pissed, on the Piss: Drunk
Piss, Grog: Beer
Premix/spirits/RTD (ready to drink): you can get anything you can think of in a can as a premix like Jack and Coke
Sheila: chick
Bloke: dude
Good on ya: nice job
How you goin: whatsup
Have a go: try something out, fight someone, make fun of someone…
Fair Dinkum: Right on, true, cool…most of their slang boils down to positive or negative connotation and you can use it any form or context so initially it’s hard to get used to how many different ways the terms are used
You would think baseball would have the same terminology but when it’s a cricket based tradition cricket terms have snuck into the baseball vernacular. Like I said before with pluralizing 3rd inning. Diggs are At Bats, the grounds is the field, and the country venues don’t see the point in batters boxes.
Tea: Dinner
Feral: bad, nasty, rude, unfair
Advance Australia Fair: National Anthem
Tomato Sauce( or sometimes just “sauce”): ketchup - I’ve found out who it is they’re talking about when I say tomato you say tom”o”to
Dodgi: shady
Heap or Heaps of: a lot – again used in so many ways heaps of homers, heaps of rain, heaps of traffic…
Toilet: bathroom
Melbun: Melbourne
Reckon: think
There are a lot of British terms but I think those are mainly obvious like holiday:vacation boot:trunk lif:elevator so I won’t bore you with them.
It really is a different language, their grammar is reprehensible but I guess if everyone in a country has agreed to talk like that than it's ok...
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