However, present-day usage of the term "ute" in Australia and New Zealand has expanded to include any vehicle with an open cargo area at the rear, which would be called a pickup truck in other countries.
Ute: From the word “utility,” it's an Australian term for pickup truck. The cargo bed in a ute may also be referred to as a “tray.”
Boot: the trunk of a car. Booze bus: how Australians refer to mobile breath testing units. You might spot these big vans on the side of the road where police are conducting random breath tests of motorists.
For instance, Australians will usually say 'soccer' instead of 'football' and 'overalls' instead of 'dungarees'. A 'lorry' is referred to as a 'truck' and the word 'pants' is used in place of 'trousers'.
Ute, a utility coupe, lays on the chassis of a car. The front of the car, AKA passenger body and the rear of the car, AKA the cargo tray are in one piece. The reason for that can be found in ute's elementary purpose, being a people and load carrier for the farmers.
Truck bed may refer to: Tonneau, an open area of a vehicle, which may be coverable with a tonneau cover. Pickup bed, the bed of the tonneau of a pickup truck. Flatbed truck truckbed. Dump truck truckbed.
Those steel bars hanging from the truck's platform bed are known as a “rear underride guards” or “rear impact guards.” They are designed to prevent vehicles from sliding underneath a trailer during a rear-end collision. Unlike your average car, truck trailers and straight trucks do not have rear bumpers.
The word you are searching for is bum. The Australasian meaning of fanny is for some, however, being pushed into oblivion by the repetition of this innocuous American word in the theme song for the sitcom, The Nanny. The preferred Australasian term for fanny pack is bum bag.
Glovebox — glove compartment. Motorbike — motorcycle. Mud guard — fender. Parkbrake or handbrake — emergency brake. Petrol (& petrol station, petrol bowser) — gasoline (& gas or filling station, gas pump)
Certainly if you're in the US, your mother is your “mom” – short for “mommy” and in the UK, Australia and New Zealand it's “mum” – shortened from “mummy”.
Q: And here in Australia? A: While Britain still heavily favours “lift”, in Australia you'll find both words used interchangeably.
Australian-produced utes were traditionally rear-wheel drive and with the cargo tray integrated with the passenger body (as opposed to a pickup truck, where the cargo tray is separated from the passenger body).
Depends entirely on how one defines "useful." Ute is defined by Wikipedia as: "synonymous with "coupe utility" or "utility." In Australia and New Zealand, the word "ute" is used to describe vehicles with a tray in the back of the cabin ".
Why do Australians call sweets “lollies”, even when they have no sticks? According to British English from A to Zed by Norman Schur (Harper, 1991) “lolly” derives onomatopoetically for the mouth sounds associated with sucking or licking. The word “lollipop” came later.
hottie (plural hotties) (slang, Australia, New Zealand, now rare) Synonym of hotshot. (slang, originally Australia) A physically or sexually attractive person.
Weed-eater: Of all things, they call this a whipper snipper.
The word Brolly is the slang term used for an umbrella in Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland and even in South Africa. Some locals also call it the storm stick, a rain-shade, even a bumbershoot!
Contributor's comments: Port is used for suitcase, I agree, but it is also used in Queensland schools for a school bag of any size or shape, not just a suitcase or portmanteau.
but a chilly bin of course is an eski. Oh, that's Australian slang. Both of those names, chilly bin and eski, mean ice chest. A portable box that keeps mainly your beer cold.
/ (ˈfræŋə) / noun. Australian slang a condom.
Aussie Word of the Week
Underdaks, also called underchunders or underdungers, is a colloquial name for your underpants. Daks are trousers, therefore underdaks must logically be underwear. Simple. Aussie slang is full of alternative words for our trousers and underwear.
In addition to being a place to sleep, dictionaries also list a bed as “a supporting or underlying part," and “the part of a trailer or freight car designed to carry loads." Trains were well established decades before the first pickup trucks hit the streets, so it was a natural transition to assign names to its parts ...
Definitions of truck bed. the floor or bottom of a wagon or truck or trailer. types: flatbed. an open truck bed or trailer with no sides; used to carry large heavy objects. type of: floor, flooring.
The Pickup Bed – Begin With the End in Mind
When it comes to what makes a pickup truck, well, a pickup, the big open cargo box or hauling surface that sits on the back of the truck behind the cab is the number one thing that makes it a pickup.