amber fluid
- beer
ankle-biter
- small child, tacker, rug rat
arvo
- afternoon
avagoyermug
- traditional rally calling, especially at cricket matches
award wage
- minimum pay rate
back o' Bourke
- back of beyond, middle of nowhere
backblocks
- bush or other remote area far from the city
bail out
- leave
bail up
- hold up, rob, earbash
Balmain bug
- see Moreton Bay bug
banana bender
- resident of Queensland
banker
- a river almost overflowing it's banks (as in "the Cooper is running a
banker")
barbie
- barbeque (BBQ)
barra
- barramundi (prized fish of the north)
barrack
- cheer on team at sporting event, support (as in "who do you barrack for?")
bastard
- general term of address which can mean many things. While mostly used
as a
good-natured form of greeting ("G'day,you old bastard!"), it can also denote
the highest
level of praise or respect ("He's the bravest bastard I know!") or it can
be the most dire
of insults ("You lousy, lying copper bastard!")
bathers
- swimming costume (in Victoria)
battler
- hard trier, struggler (the outback is full of "great Aussie battlers")
beaut, beauty, bewdie
- great, fantastic
big bikkies
- a lot of money, expensive
big mobs
- a large amount, heaps
bikies
- motorcyclists
billabong
- waterhole in dried up riverbed, more correctly an ox-bow bend cut off
in the dry season
by receding waters
billy
- tin container used to boil tea in the bush
bitumen
- asphalt, surfaced road
black stump
- where the back o' Bourke begins
blaze
- (a blaze in a tree) a mark in a tree trunk made by cutting away bark,
indicating a path or
reference point; also 'to blaze'
bloke
- man
blowies
- blowflies, bluebottles
bludger
- lazy person, one who won't work and lives off other people's money (originally,
a
prostitute's pimp)
blue heeler
- cattle dog
blue (ie have a blue)
- to have an arguement or fight
bluey
- swag; also nickname for a red-haired person
bonzer
- great, ripper
boomer
- very big; a particularly large male kangaroo
boomerang
- a curved flat wooden instrument used by aborigines for hunting
booze bus
- police van used for random breath testing for alcohol
boozer
- pub
bottleshop
- liquor shop
bottle
- 750ml bottle of beer
bottlo
- bottleshop
bowser
- feul pump at a service station (named after the US inventor S F Bowser)
brumby
- wild horse
bruss
- brother, mate (used by central Australian Aborigines)
Buckley's, Buckley's chance
-
bug
-
Bulamakanka
-
bull bar
-
bull dust
-
bunfight
-
bungarra
-
bunyip
-
burl
-
bush tucker
-
bush (ie go bush)
-
bushbash
-
bushranger
-
BYO
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