1. to convey a second person on a horse, bicycle, or motorcycle. --noun 2. a ride obtained from being pugged. Compare bar2, dink, dinky1, dinky-double, donkey1, double, dub.
"Dual income, no kids" (DINK) is a slang phrase for a household in which there are two incomes and no children. Couples living in a DINK household frequently have more disposable income because they do not have the added expenses that come with children.
acronym for double income, no kids, popular from 1987. "drop-shot," in lawn tennis, 1939, probably somehow imitative. As a verb by 1942.
5. Sheila = Girl. Yes, that is the Australian slang for girl.
Aussie is Australian slang for Australian, both the adjective and the noun, and less commonly, Australia.
Zed is widely known to be used in British English. But it's also used in almost every English-speaking country. In England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Australia, India, Canada (usually), and New Zealand, Z is pronounced as zed. It's derived from the Greek letter zeta.
As an exclamation, yeet broadly means "yes". But it can also be a greeting, or just an impassioned grunt, like a spoken dab.*
Durry, a New Zealand or Australian slang term for cigarette.
One of the first things you'll notice about Australia will no doubt be the very unique speaking habits of its people. Australians speak fast, 'chew' words and skip pronunciation of letters – combine this with their penchant for slang and abbreviations, and you have a language that's quite difficult to comprehend!
Grog is a general term for beer and spirits (but not wine). Australians enjoy having a few beers or a bevvie (short for beverage), a frostie, a coldie or a couple of cold ones. Beer is also known as liquid amber, amber nectar or liquid gold.
noun Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a Southeast Asian, especially a Vietnamese.
DINK (dual income, no kids) is a slang term used to describe a couple with two incomes who do not have children.
Childless families are families with two partners who cannot have or don't want kids. In the world of family types and dynamics, these families are often forgotten or left out (even though you can still have a family without children).
Luxury goods are marketed to DINKs, who are more likely to have the disposable income needed.
The dink is hit from the non-volley or kitchen line, whereas, the drop shot is hit from the baseline. You can hit the drop shot from any place on the court, but usually it is hit from deep in your court while your opponents are back near the baseline. We all know the drop shot in tennis.
Let's face it, most of us are suckers for a sexy accent. According to a recent survey conducted by the popular dating website MissTravel.com, over 2000 American men and women regard Australian accents as one of the sexiest in the world.
If you find the British accent difficult to understand, it's likely you'll find the Aussie accent even harder to grasp as, for the most part, Australia is a melting pot of all the different regional dialects of British English.
When greeting each other, close friends may hug, back-slap or kiss one another on the cheek, while others may simply offer a nod. Women generally tend to be more physically affectionate during greetings.
dinger (Australian slang) franger (Australian slang)
dunny – a toilet, the appliance or the room – especially one in a separate outside building. This word has the distinction of being the only word for a toilet which is not a euphemism of some kind. It is from the old English dunnykin: a container for dung. However Australians use the term toilet more often than dunny.
By 1845 immigration was well established in Australia and people began playing with the word immigrant. An immigrant, someone choosing Australia as a place to live, was playfully referred to as Jimmy Grant (or just jimmy).
Yeah nah yeah = yes. No wonder you're confused! A commonly-used word here is mate, which normally means friend.
A ute (/juːt/ YOOT), originally an abbreviation for "utility" or "coupé utility", is a term used in Australia and New Zealand to describe vehicles with a tonneau behind the passenger compartment, that can be driven with a regular driver's license.
yute (plural yutes) (Jamaican Patois, MLE, MTE, derogatory, slang) A youth, a young person, often a young black person.