Plonk is perhaps Australia's best-known word for alcohol. It originally meant cheap, fortified wine but over time came to mean any cheap alcohol.
Some common street names and nicknames for alcohol include: Booze. Juice. Giggle juice.
But the Australian slang for beer is amber fluid. Some states call it a pint, and in others, it is a schooner.
What do they call soda in Australia? In Australia, they call soda a soft drink. This can be a term used in The United States of America as well but it's not as common as saying soda or call pop.
“Cheers!”
Aussies use “cheers!” in a number of instances: to say thank you, in celebration, when drinking, and to say hello and goodbye. Get ready to hear “cheers mate!” a lot. No matter how strange sounding these Aussie slang terms are at first, you will inevitably adopt them in no time.
alcoholic. alchie/alkey/alkie. bacchanalian. barfly.
synonyms for heavy drinker
On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to heavy drinker, such as: barfly, chronic alcoholic, chronic drunk, dipsomaniac, drunkard, and hard drinker.
On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to drinker, such as: alcoholic, boozer, null, dipsomaniac, drunkard, and guzzler.
In the early decades of the Australian colonies "grog" was often the only alcoholic beverage available to the working classes. Eventually in Australia the word "grog" came to be used as a slang term for any alcoholic beverage.
Aussies have a lot of other words for drinking the amber fluid in quick or creative ways. Chug and neck are both ways to describe downing a drink quickly without pause, while chug-a-lug is a bout of drinking: a booze up.
dipso. Dipso is an 1870s-era word for a habitual drunk, which was also used in the 1920s. It's a shortened version of dipsomaniac, which is a person with an irresistible craving for alcoholic drink. In the 1800s, dipsomaniac was actually a medical term for a number of issues we now know as alcoholism.
a person who enjoys wines, usually as a connoisseur.
synonyms for drunkard
On this page you'll find 35 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to drunkard, such as: alcoholic, bacchanal, boozer, carouser, debauchee, and null.
Cozzie – swimming costume • Cranky – in a bad mood, angry • Crook – sick, or badly made • Cut lunch – sandwiches • Dag – a funny person • Daks – trousers • Dinkum, fair dinkum – true, real, genuine • Dipstick – a loser, idiot • Down Under – Australia and New Zealand • Dunny – outside toilet • Earbashing – nagging • ...
Let's start with one of the most famous Australian slang phrases: 'No worries'. It's said to be the national motto of Australia. This expression means “do not worry about it”, or “it's all right”.
"Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi" is a cheer or chant often performed at Australian sport events.
A few wine slang terms to name wine are vino, glogg, and, for fans of the show Community, no-no juice. Whatever name you choose, a wine, by any other name, still tastes great.
A sommelier is the name for a wine expert. That is how the word has been historically used. More often than not, though, the word sommelier is used to describe those certified by the Court of Master Sommeliers and some other wine educational organizations.
Wine: a form of dance, involves gyration of hips, performed to mainly West Indian music like reggae, calypso.
A 'boozer,' 'dip,' 'dipso,' 'swiper' or 'swizzler' was a heavy drinker. To 'swizzle' was to drink. Swizzling too much would make you 'blootered,' or thoroughly intoxicated.
Three Sheets to the Wind
Southerners use the phrase as a polite way to say someone who has had too many porch cocktails is very drunk.
a person who drinks alcoholic beverages mainly in the company of others and who generally does not drink to excess.