Crack (give it a): if you're giving something a crack, that means you're having a go. Crikey: an exclamation of surprise is the best way to describe the uniquely Aussie term that is crikey. Crook: a word that has many meanings depending on the context. If you're feeling unwell, you could say you are crook.
In Australia, Cocaine is known as coke, blow, charlie, C, dust, flake, nose candy, snow, white, crack, rock, freebase.
[ U ] slang. (also crack cocaine) a powerful form of the drug cocaine: Several kilos of crack were found in her luggage.
Australian social and food slang:
“Let's buy some sausages for the barbie.” Brekky: means breakfast. “Would you like to grab some brekky tomorrow?” Crack a cold one/Crack a tinny: these both mean having a beer.
Meaning: If you have a crack at something, you try to do it. If someone is attempting to do something and they are unsuccessful, you might say, "Let me have a crack at it" suggesting that you might be successful at performing the task. ('Take a crack' is also used.)
So, that's really all there is to it guys. That's the phrase to have a crack at something, to give something a crack or to take a crack at something. And it just means to try something without necessarily being sure that you'll succeed or wanting to have a go, have a shot, have a turn or have a try at something.
singular noun. If you are talking about something that you did and you say 'the craic was great', or 'it was a good craic', you mean that you had a really good time, especially because everyone was talking, joking, and laughing. [Irish, informal]
In Australian slang, to have an erection.
Dipstick - a loser or idiot. Down Under - Australia and New Zealand.
And you know that thing you used to edge that? You call it a weed whacker. or like an edge trimmer or something like that. And in Australia, we call that a whipper snipper.
to behave in a way that suggests you are attracted to someone and would like to start a sexual relationship with them: Already he has cracked onto one girl, showing off his tattoos and holding her hand. Ben appeared to want to crack onto Chrissy, but we all knew that wasn't going to happen.
to break something so that it does not separate, but very thin lines appear on its surface, or to become broken in this way: A stone hit the window and cracked the glass. I cracked my tooth as I fell. The walls cracked and the roof collapsed in the earthquake.
(slang) Very addicting.
Let's start with the most common, most well-known, and most quintessentially Australian slang term for girls: Sheila. While everywhere else in the English-speaking world, Sheila is a specific person's name, in Australia it can be used to refer to any woman or girl.
For Australian National University linguist Anna Wierzbicka, these expressions are among the most culturally salient features of Australian English — expressions of informality and solidarity that are “uniquely suited to the Anglo-Australian ethos […] and style of interaction”.
Chewie: if someone asks you for some chewie, they're looking for a piece of chewing gum. Chuck a sickie: a worker who decides to take a sick day when they're actually in perfect health is chucking a sickie.
turps: on the turps
Drinking heavily. Turps is an abbreviation of turpentine, and is recorded in Australian English from the 1860s with the meaning 'alcoholic liquor'. It alludes to the use of spirits such as turps and methylated spirits by down-and-out alcoholics.
If you make wine, import wine into Australia or sell it by wholesale, you'll generally have to account for wine equalisation tax (WET).
(slang) An impotent or infertile male.
pork chop: to carry on like a pork chop
To behave foolishly, to make a fuss, to complain, or to rant. This expression is often thought to allude to the spluttering noise of a pork chop that is being fried.
In the case of Australian slang, words are clipped, and then a diminutive suffix is added to the clipped word. In this case, bikkie (the colloquial Australian word for a cookie), is clipped slang for biscuit (the British English word for a type of cookie), and it uses the -ie diminutive suffix.
An old Tudor phrase for lavatory, jacks is a term more commonly used in Ireland. This is likely a reference to Jack Power, who invented the first multiple cubicle toilet. However, he never liked his name being associated with sanitation so he changed it by deed poll.
Open a bottle so as to drink its contents, as in Let's celebrate by cracking a bottle of champagne! This seemingly modern colloquialism was first recorded in H.
to take a crack (at answering a question): to try or attempt (to answer a question) idiom.