Reverse Dictionary: AUSTRALIA

ADJECTIVES
► ABO pert. to Australian Aboriginals → 1911 Aust. sl.
► AUSSIE Australian → 1917 sl.
► AUSTRAL pert. to Australia → 1823 
► AUSTRALIAN AS A MEAT PIE typically or authentically Australian → 1981 Aust. sl.
► CREAMY quarter-caste Australian Aboriginal → 1912 Aust. sl.
► MYALL retaining a traditional Aboriginal lifestyle; ignorant of the ways of White society → 1827 Aust., derogatory
► OCKER distinctively Australian → 1972 Aust. sl.
► ON THE WALLABY TRACK tramping in the outback → 1999 Aust. sl., obs. (Bk.)
► OZ Australian → 1971 sl., orig. Aust.
► OZZIE Australian → 1918 sl., orig. Aust.
► STRINE relating to Australia → 1964 colloq.
► VANDEMONIAN belonging to or inhabiting Tasmania → 1840 

NOUNS
► ABORTION EXPRESS a train that ran from Darwin to Birdum → 1940 Aust. sl.
► ACROSS THE DITCH Australia → 1998 NZ sl.
► AERIAL PING-PONG Australian Rules Football → 1964 Aust., often derisive usage
► ALBANY DOCTOR a refreshing cool breeze in southern Western Australia → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► ALICE Alice Springs; in early use, was preceded by ‘the’ → 1901 Aust. sl.
► ALLIGATORLAND Queensland → L19 Aust. sl.
► APPLE ISLAND, THE ► APPLE ISLE, THE Tasmania → 1906 Aust. colloq.
► AUSSIE 1. Australia → 1915 Aust. sl.
2. Australian English → 1945 Aust. sl.
► AUSSIELAND Australia → 1920 Aust.
► AUSTRALIAN Australian English → 1902 Aust.
► BACK BLOCK the country outside the margin of the settled districts → 1892 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► BACK OF BOURKE any remote outback area → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► BANANALAND Queensland → 1898 Aust. colloq.
► BANANA REPUBLIC, THE Queensland → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► BANGTAIL MUSTER a roundup of cattle to be counted, each one having the hairs on its tail docked as it is counted → L19Aust.
► BARCOO BUSTER a westerly wind in outback Queensland → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► BARCOO SALUTE a gesture with which one brushes flies from one’s face, considered to be typical of Australians → 1973 Aust. sl.
► BAZZALAND Australia → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► BIG A Australia → 1987 US sl.
► BIG STICKS in Australian Rules football: the goal posts → 1996 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► BLACK STUMP a non-existent place in the remote outback → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► BLUEY a bushman’s bundle, the outside wrapper of which is generally a blue blanket → 1891 Aust. sl.
► BRISSO Brisbane → 20C Aust. sl., abbreviation
► BRISSY ► BRIZZIE Brisbane → 1996 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► BUNYIP ARISTOCRACY Australia’s ‘landed gentry’ → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► BUSH BROTHERHOOD a society of missionaries, clerical and lay, established to evangelize the inhabitants of the Australian bush → 1903 
► BUSH CAPITAL Canberra, the capital city of Australia; so-called because it was a new city built in the ‘bush’ (countryside) halfway between the major cities of Sydney and Melbourne → 1906 Aust. sl.
► CABBAGE GARDEN Victoria, Australia → 1882 Aust. sl.
► CABBAGE GARDEN PATCH Victoria, Australia → 20C Aust. sl.
► CABBAGE-PATCH Victoria, Australia → 1882 Aust. sl.
► CABBAGE STATE Victoria, Australia → 1882 Aust. sl.
► CAMP, THE 1. Sydney → L18 Aust.
2. Hobart → M19 Aust.
► CHOWLAND Queensland → 1900 Aust. sl.
► COATHANGER, THE Sydney Harbour Bridge → 1943 Aust. sl.
► CUPPA TEA, A BEX, AND A GOOD LIE DOWN, A the Australian remedy for most problems → 1950 Aust.
► DANDIES, THE the Dandenong Ranges outside Melbourne → 1981 Aust. sl.
► DANDY in South Australia: a small container for ice cream → 1954 Aust. sl.
► DARLING IT HURTS Darlinghurst, a rough inner-city area of Sydney → 20C Aust. sl.
► DARLO Darlinghurst, a rough inner-city area of Sydney → 1920 Aust. sl.
► DEAD HEART the arid inland regions of Australia → 1906 Aust. sl.
► DEAD HOUSE a room in an outback public house set aside for those who are incapably drunk → M19 Aust. sl.
► DOMAIN COCKTAIL a lethal concoction of petrol and pepper which reputedly once had a vogue amongst deadbeat drinkers in the Sydney Domain → L19 Aust. sl.
► DONGA ► DONGER the bush; the outback → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► EAST JESUS ► EAST JESUS NOWHERE the outback → 1961 sl.
► FLY SPECK, THE Tasmania → 20C Aust.
► FREMANTLE DOCTOR a refreshing sea breeze that blows into Fremantle and Perth after a hot spell → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► G.A.B.A.  the outback (Great Australian Bugger All) → 1980 Aust. sl.
► GALAH SESSION an interval set aside regularly on the Flying Doctor radio network for anyone who wishes to exchange news and gossip rather than make emergency calls → 1950 Aust. sl.
► GHAN, THE a train that runs between Adelaide and Alice Springs → M20 Aust. sl.
► GODZONE ‘God’s own’ country – Australia → 20C Aust. sl.
► GROPERLAND West Australia → 1941 jocular usage
► KANAKALAND Queensland → L19 Aust. sl.
► KANGAROOLAND Australia → 1900 Aust. sl.
► ‘KANGAROOS West Australian mining shares; also, a dealer in these → 1896 Aust. Stock Exchange usage
► KENSO Kensington racecourse, Sydney → 20C Aust. sporting usage
► LEAPING LENA a train that ran from Darwin to Birdum → 1940 Aust. sl.
► LEGITIMACY the state of immigrating to Australia as a convict → 1827 Aust. sl. obs.
► LUCKY COUNTRY Australia → 1964 Aust., jocular usage
► MARVELLOUS MELBOURNE Melbourne, Australia’s second biggest city → 1885 Aust. sl.
► MA STATE, THE New South Wales → L19Aust. colloq.
► MULGA an uninhabited, sparsely populated or inhospitable region; the outback → L19 Aust.
► MULGA MADNESS temporary eccentricity or insanity due to living alone in the outback → 1905 Aust. sl.
► MULGA SCRUBBER a livestock animal that has run wild and deteriorated in condition → 1897 Aust. sl.
► MULGA WIRE a ‘bush telegraph’, the ‘grapevine’ → L19 Aust.
► NEVER NEVER the unpopulated northern part of Queensland; the desert country of the interior; remote Australia → 1833 Aust.
► NEVER-NEVER LAND, THE the deep, deserted interior of Australia → 1884 Aust. sl.
► OCEAN HELL the penal establishment sited on Norfolk Island for particularly recalcitrant convicts → M19 Aust. sl.
► OCKER Australian English → 1979 Aust. sl.
► OCKERDOM the society of boorish, uncouth, chauvinistic Australians → 1974 Aust. sl.
► OCKERISM boorish behaviour, self-satisfaction → 1970 Aust. sl.
► OZ Australia → 1908 sl.
► PADDO Paddington, Sydney → 1940 Aust. sl.
► QUEENIE Queensland → 1994 Aust. sl.
► RASPBERRY-LAND Tasmania → 20C Aust. sl.
► SADDLING PADDOCK the bar of the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, generally accepted as a place to pick up prostitutes → 20C
► SAND-GROPER LAND Western Australia → L19 Aust. sl.
► SHOP, THE the University of Melbourne → 1889 Aust. sl.
► SKED in remote country regions: a schedule for a radio call → 1856 
► STEAK AND KIDNEY Sydney → 1905 Aust. rhyming sl.
► STICKS, THE the outback → 1984 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► STRINE Australian English → 1964 Aust. colloq.
► SYSTEM the transportation of convicts from the United Kingdom to Australia → 1851 Aust. sl.
► TASWAY Tasmania → 1984 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► THREE Bs Bum, Bash, and Bury, what should be done with rubbish that accumulates in the outback → 1920 Aust. sl.
► TINSEL TOWN Sydney → 1980 Aust. sl.
► TOP END the Northern Territory → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► VASELINE VALLEY a stretch of Oxford Street, Sydney, acknowledged as the city’s gay centre → 1980 Aust. sl.
► VIC Victoria, Australia → 1902 Aust. sl.
► WALER a horse imported from Australia, esp. from New South Wales → 1849 Anglo-Indian
► WALLABY TRACK the route followed by an itinerant moving from station to station in search of work → M19Aust. sl.
► WAYBACK the outback → 1984 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► WESTRALIA Western Australia → L19Aust. sl.
► WOOP-WOOP a fictitious remote area of Australia → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► YOU-BEAUT COUNTRY Australia → 1984 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► YOWIE a mythical Australian monster → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)

NOUNS – PERSON
► AB an Australian Aboriginal → 1870 Aust.
► ABC an Australian-born Chinese → 1990 Aust. sl.
► ABO 1. an Australian Aboriginal → 1908 Aust. sl., now mainly derogatory
2. an expert on Aborigine and bush customs and folktales → 1910 Aust. sl.
► ABOLIAR an expert on Aborigine bush customs and folktales → 1904 Aust. sl.
► ADELAIDEAN a native or resident of Adelaide → 1839 
► ALF an ordinary, uneducated, unsophisticated Australian male → 1960 Aust. sl., derogatory
► ANGLO an Anglo-Australian; used by people from a Mediterranean or Middle Eastern background, opposing the term ‘wog’ → 1982 Aust. sl., derogatory
► APPLE ISLANDER a native or resident of Tasmania → 1928 Aust. colloq.
► ARCHIE ► ARCHY a young station-hand, probably a well-connected young man out from the UK → L19 Aust. sl.
► AUSSIE a native or resident of Australia; originally, an Australian soldier in World War I → 1915 
► AUSSIE BATTLER ► LITTLE AUSSIE BATTLER a typical member of the working class in Australia; the ordinary Australian trying to make ends meet  → 1886 Aust. sl.
► AUSSIELANDER an Australian → 1941 Aust.
► AUSTRALIENNE a non-Aboriginal Australian woman → 1895 Aust.
► BACK BLOCKER an inhabitant of regions remote from settled areas → 1870 Aust. sl.
► BAD NIGGER an Aborigine who refuses to cooperate with the authorities → 1910 Aust. sl.
► BALANDER an Aboriginal name for a White man → 1847 Aust. sl.
► BALT an immigrant to Australia from the Baltic countries, and Poland and Holland, after World War II → 1947 Aust. sl., derogatory
► BALTIE an immigrant to Australia from the Baltic countries, and Poland and Holland, after World War II → 1953 Aust. sl., derogatory
► BANANA BENDER a native or resident of Queensland → 1952 Aust. sl.
► BANANA BOY a native or resident of Queensland → 1890 Aust. sl.
► BANANA-EATER a native or resident of Queensland → 1955 Aust. sl.
► BANANALANDER a native or resident of Queensland → 1887 Aust. jocular usage
► BANANA MAN a native or resident of Queensland → 1868 Aust. sl.
► BARCOO BILL a bushman → 1910 Aust. sl.
► BARRACOOTA a native or resident of Hobart, Tasmania → 1898 Aust. sl.
► BASKETWEAVER FROM BALMAIN a trendy, basically middle-class, upwardly mobile, socially conscious, left-wing member of the Australian Labour Party, and one who has no intention of manning the barricades for any cause whatsoever → 1986 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► BATTLER a swagman → 1900 Aust.
► BAZZ ► BAZZA an average, knockabout, sub-literate Australian male → 1986 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► BIDGEE WHALER an itinerant tramp whose ‘beat’ focuses on the rivers of New South Wales → 1906 Amer. dial.
► BIG MAN a powerfully built Australian Rules footballer, often playing in a special position, e.g. ruckman; any Australian Rules player → 1963 Aust. sl.
► BILJIM ► BILLJIM the typical Australian male; an Australian soldier → 1898 Aust. sl.
► BILL a generic term for an Australian soldier → 1900 Aust. sl.
► BILL AND JIM 1. typical outback Australians in the 1890s → 1896 Aust. sl. obs.
2. typical Australian soldiers in World War I → 1919 Aust. sl. obs.
► BILLY any Aboriginal singled out from the rest → 1905 Aust. sl.
► BILLY BARLOW an inexperienced immigrant who meets with misadventures in the colony → 1843 Aust. sl.
► BINE an English immigrant → 1999 Aust. sl.
► BINGHI a White term for an Aboriginal → 1893 Aust. sl., derogatory
► BINGY an Australian Aboriginal → 1933 Aust. sl.
► BITUMEN BLONDE an Aboriginal girl or woman → 1943 Aust. sl., derogatory
► BLACK a person of Australian Aboriginal origin or descent → 1614 
► BLACK AUSTRALIAN an Australian Aboriginal → 1863 
► BLACKBIRD an Aborigine → 1865 Aust. sl.
► BLACKBOY 1. an Australian Aboriginal man → 1810 offensive
2. an Aboriginal guide accompanying  explorers → 1893 offensive
► BLACKBOYS aboriginal servants in Australia → 1892 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► BLACKBUTT a native Australian → 1910 Aust. sl.
► BLACKFELLA ►  BLACKFELLER ► BLACKFELLOW an Australian aboriginal → 1827 Aust. sl.
► BLACK HAT a newly-arrived immigrant → 1887 Aust. sl.
► BLACK MAN a man of Australian Aboriginal origin or descent → 1398 
► BLACK TRACKER an Australian Aboriginal employed by police to track down fugitives or persons lost in the bush → 1862 Aust.
► BLACK VELVET an Aboriginal woman, esp. as the focus of a White man’s sexual interest → 1899 Aust. & NZ sl., offensive
► BOANG ► BOONG ► BUNG an Australian Aboriginal → 1924 Aust. sl., derogatory
► BODGIE a member of a male subculture of the 1950s, similar to Britain’s teddy-boys, identifiable by a flashy style of dress → 1952 Aust. sl.
► BOUNDARY-RIDER a person who rides around the fences of a station, and repairs them when broken → 1865 Aust.
► BRISSO a person who lives in Brisbane → 1996 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► BRUCE a typical Australian male → 1996 Aust. sl., obs. (Bk.)
► BUNJI a White man, often old, and impoverished, who pursues Aboriginal women for sex → 1970 Aust. sl.
► BUNYIP ARISTOCRACY Australians who consider themselves to be aristocrats → 1981 Aust. colloq., derogatory (Bk.)
► BUSHIE an uncomplicated person from the bush → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► BUSHWHACKER an uncomplicated person from the bush → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► CABBAGE a native or resident of Victoria → L19 Aust. sl.
► CABBAGE GARDENER a native or resident of Victoria → 1882 Aust. sl.
► CABBAGE PATCHER a native or resident of Victoria → 1882 Aust. sl.
► CABBAGE STATER a native or resident of Victoria → 1882 Aust. sl.
► CABBAGE TREE MOB an unruly set of young fellows, dressed in a suit of fustian or colonial tweed, and the emblem of their order, the low-crowned cabbage-palm hat; the main object of their enmity seems to be the ordinary black headpiece worn by respectable persons, which is ruthlessly knocked over the eyes of the wearer as he passes or enters the theatre → 1852 Aust. sl.
► CABBAGITES a class of layabouts or roughs, typified by the wearing of a ‘cabbage-tree hat’ (a hat made from the dried leaves of the cabbage-palm; they were esteemed as a protection from the sun, and allowed free ventilation) → 1850 Aust. sl.
► CANE TOAD a person from Queensland → 20C Aust. sl.
► CARPET BUSHMAN a businessman who owns land in the outback but rarely visits → 1910 Aust. sl.
► CHOCOLATE SOLDIER a member of an Australian militia during World War II who did not serve in a theatre of war → 1943 Aust. sl., derogatory
► COLLINS STREET SQUATTER a man, usually a youth, who frequents bars, cafes, etc. for no other reason that meeting his friends, gossiping and wasting time → 1960 Aust. sl., Melbourne usage
► COMBO a White man who lives with an Aboriginal woman → 1896 Aust. sl.
► COMBOMAN a White man who lives with an Aboriginal woman → 1896 Aust. sl.
► CORNSTALK a native-born, non-aboriginal Australian; later, a person from New South Wales → 1827 Aust. sl.
► COVE a master or overseer of an Australian station → 1892 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► CREAMY a person of mixed European and Australian Aboriginal heritage → 1912 Aust. sl.
► CROW-EATER a native or resident of South Australia → 1902 Aust. colloq.
► CRUMB-GATHERER in Australian Rules football: a footballer who is good at getting the loose ball → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► CURRENCY persons born in Australia → 1892 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► DARK CLOUD an Australian Aboriginal → 1945 Aust. sl.
► DARKEE ► DARKEY ► DARKIE ► DARKY an Australian Aboriginal; any person having very dark skin as a racial trait → 1775 sl., now derogatory or offensive
► DARKMAN an Aborigine → 1970 Aust. sl.. derogatory
► DARLING WHALER an itinerant tramp whose ‘beat’ focuses on the rivers of New South Wales → 1906 Amer. dial.
► DARLINGS, THE the prostitutes of Darlinghurst and King’s Cross, Sydney → 1930 Aust. sl.
► DIG a digger → 1916 Aust. & NZ sl.
► DIGGER an Australian; an Australian or NZ soldier in World Wars I and II, esp. a private → 1916 sl.
► DINGO an Australian → 2002 NZ sl.
► DINKUM an Australian or New Zealand soldier in the First World War; an Anzac; generally, an Australian or New Zealander → 1916 
► DINKUM AUSSIE a person who embodies all those things seen as characteristically Australian → 1920 Aust. sl.
► DOMAIN DOSSER a loafer or down-and-out who frequents the Sydney Domain → 20C Aust. sl.
► DUNGAREE SETTLER a poor settler, or one of low social status → 1826 Aust. colloq.
► EGGS-A-COOK Australian soldiers → 1915 Aust. military sl.
► EMU-BOBBER a man employed to pick up the remnants after clearing or burning off in the bush → 1920 Aust. sl.
► FORTY a fraudulent gambler; orig. applied to the members of a Sydney gang → 1876 Aust. sl.
► GEEBUNG 1. an unsophisticated, uncultured, philistine native-born Australian, who values material gain above everything else; an uncultivated, native-born Australian, living in a remote area → 1864 Aust. sl.
2. an old settler in New South Wales → 1874 Aust.
► GEORGE STREET BACKBLOCKER a businessman who owns land in the outback but rarely if ever visits → 1912 Aust. sl.
► GHAN an Afghan or Muslim immigrant to Australia, esp. one who drives or breeds camels → 1907 Aust. sl.
► GIN 1. an Australian Aboriginal woman or wife → 1790 Aust., now considered offensive
2. any woman or wife; also, an old woman → 1880 Aust.
► GIN-BANGER a White man who has casual sexual relations with Aboriginal women → 1912 Aust. sl.
► GIN-BOY a White man who has casual sexual relations with Aboriginal women → 1892 Aust. sl.
► GIN BURGLAR a White man who has casual sexual relations with Aboriginal women → 1947 Aust.
► GIN CUDDLER a White man who has casual sexual relations with Aboriginal women → 1954 Aust. sl.
► GIN DOZZLER a White man who has casual sexual relations with Aboriginal women → 1977 Aust. sl.
► GIN JOCKEY a White man who has casual sexual relations with Aboriginal women → 1955 Aust. sl.
► GIN MAN a White man who has casual sexual relations with Aboriginal women → 1963 Aust. sl.
► GIN MASHER a White man who has casual sexual relations with Aboriginal women → 1902 Aust. sl.
► GINNY an Australian Aboriginal woman or wife → 1901 Aust., now considered offensive
► GIN SHEPHERD a White man who has casual sexual relations with Aboriginal women → 1958 Aust. sl.
► GIN SHEPHERDER a White man who has casual sexual relations with Aboriginal women → 1926 Aust. sl.
► GIN STEALER a White man who has casual sexual relations with Aboriginal women → 1925 Aust. sl.
► GROPER a native or resident of Western Australia, esp. a (descendant of an) early settler → 1899 Aust. sl.
► GROPERLANDER a West Australian → 1945 jocular usage
► GUM-SUCKER a native Australian, esp. a Victorian or Tasmanian → 1855 Aust.
► GUTTA-PERCHA a native or resident of Victoria → L19 Aust. sl.
► HALF-ABO a person having one Australian Aboriginal parent  → 1945 Aust., offensive
► HANDBAG a male not taking a proper manly role, esp. an Australian Rules player → 1985 Aust. sl.
► HELL TERRORS Australians; so called by the Germans → 1915 World War I Amer. sl.
► ILLEGITIMATE a free (non-convict) Australian settler → 19C Aust. sl.
► INLANDER an inhabitant of the sparsely settled interior of Australia → 1911 Aust. sl.
► JACKAROO ► JACKEROO 1. an apprentice station hand working on, and learning how to manage, a cattle or sheep station → 1845 Aust. sl.
2. a White man living beyond the bounds of ‘civilization’ → M19
3. a man newly arrived from England to gain experience in the bush; an inexperienced young colonist → 1880 Aust. colloq.
► JACKERY a popular or favoured station-hand; usually in plural → 1890 Aust. sl.
► JACKEY ► JACKIE ► JACKY ► JACKY-JACKY an Australian Aboriginal → 1845 Aust. sl., derogatory & offensive
► JARRAH-JERKER a Western Australian timber worker → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► JEW CHUM  ‘new chum’; a newcomer to Australia; a Jewish newcomer → 20C Aust. rhyming sl.
► KANACKA ► KANAKA ► KANAKER a native of the Pacific Islands, esp. one employed in Queensland as a labourer on the sugar plantations → 1840 
► KANAKALANDER a native or resident of Queensland → L19 Aust. sl.
► KANGAROO 1. a native of Australia → 1888 humorous usage
2. a dealer in West Australian mining shares → 1896 Aust. Stock Exchange usage
► KANGO an Australian → 1940 sl.
► LEGITIMATE a settler who arrived in Australia as a transported convict → 1827 Aust. sl.
► MAGPIE 1. a native or resident of South Australia → 1910 Aust. sl.
2. a half-caste → 1980 Aust. sl.
► MAINLANDER a person who lives on the mainland of Australia, rather then Tasmania → 1940 Aust. sl.
► MARY an Aboriginal woman or other non-white woman → 1830 Aust. sl.
► MERINO a person who has chosen to settle in Australia, as opposed to a convict or ex-convict; hence, a member of a leading family in Australian society; a person of fine breeding or good character → 1934 Aust. & NZ colloq.
► MERRY ANZACS casual Australians → 1919 Aust. services’ sl. (Bk.)
► MEXICAN in eastern Australia, a person from a state south of one’s own; in Queensland it refers to either New South Wales inhabitants or Victorians;  in New South Wales it refers to Victorians → 1991 Aust. sl.
► MOLESKIN SQUATTER a working man who has scraped up enough cash to buy a small sheep run → 1941 Aust. & NZ sl.
► MONGOLIAN a Chinese immigrant to Australia → 1859 derogatory, Aust. sl.
► MONKEY-DODGER a sheep-station hand → 1899 Aust. sl.
► MOUNTAIN DEVIL a native or resident of Tasmania → 1880 Aust. colloq.
► MULGA BILL a bushman → L19 Aust.
► MUNJON an Australian Aboriginal person who has little experience of White society and its customs → 1945 Aust. sl., often derogatory
► MURLONGA a White man who sexually exploits Aboriginal women → 1912 Aust. Aboriginal usage
► MURRAY WHALER an itinerant tramp whose ‘beat’ focuses on the rivers of New South Wales → 1906 Amer. dial.
► MURRI an Australian Aboriginal person → 1884 Aust. sl.
► MURRUMBIDGEE WHALER an itinerant tramp whose ‘beat’ focuses on the rivers of New South Wales → 1906 Amer. dial.
► MUTTON BIRD a native or resident of Tasmania; esp. a non-Aboriginal inhabitant of northern Tasmania → 1892 Aust. sl., humorous or derogatory
► MUTTON-BIRD EATER a native or resident of Tasmania; esp. a non-Aboriginal inhabitant of northern Tasmania → 1941 Aust. sl., humorous or derogatory
► MUTTON-EATER a native or resident of northern Tasmania → 20C Aust. sl.
► MYALL 1. a stranger; a person who is ignorant of traditional Aboriginal culture → 1818 Aust. Aboriginal usage, derogatory
2. an Australian Aboriginal person retaining a traditional lifestyle; a person who is ignorant of the ways of White society and often hostile to contact with White people → 1837 Aust., derogatory
► NAUSIE ► NAUSSIE a New Australian, esp. a recent migrant from Europe → 1959 Aust. sl.
► NEVERSWEAT a council worker → 1970 Aust. sl.
► NEWSTRALIAN a New Australian. i.e. any immigrant, usually from continental Europe, whose first language is not English → 1951 Aust. sl.
► NIGGER an Australian Aborigine; a Maori → 1856 chiefly Aust. & NZ sl., offensive
► NOGGY an Asian immigrant to Australia → 1954 Aust. sl., derogatory or offensive
► NORM the average Australian male – beer-drinking, television-watching, overweight, and inactive → 1999 Aust. sl.
► NORMANTON COCKTAIL an Aboriginal woman and two blankets → 1963 Aust. sl.
► OCK a boorish, loutish, unsophisticated, ultra-nationalistic Australian → 1976 Aust. sl.
► OCKER an Australian man; a boorish, loutish, unsophisticated, ultra-nationalistic Australian → 1916 Aust. sl.
► OCKERINA a female Australian who is boorish, loutish, unsophisticated → 1970 Aust. sl.
► OLD CHUM an experienced colonist; one who had spent some years in the colony, esp. in the outback → 1846 Aust. hist.  
► OZ an Australian → 1971 sl., orig. Aust.
► OZZIE an Australian → 1918 sl.
► PARCEL POST used in the Northern Territory to describe a person who is newly arrived and thus inexperienced → 1930 Aust. sl.
► PARRA 1. a native or resident of the western suburbs of Sydney → 1950 Aust. sl.
2. in Sydney region: a visiting non-resident of a beachside area → 1985 Aust. sl., derogatory
► PIE-EATER a native or resident of South Australia → 1980 Aust. sl., derogatory
► PLAIN TURKEY a swagman who haunts the Australian plains → 1955 Aust. sl.
► POMEGRANATE an immigrant to Australia from Britain; a ‘Pom’ → 1912 Aust. sl.
► POMMIE ► POMMY an immigrant to Australia or New Zealand from Britain → 1913 Aust. & NZ colloq, usually derogatory
► POON a lonely, crazy inhabitant of the outback; a person who lives alone in the outback → 1941 Aust. sl., derogatory
► PUMMY GRANT an immigrant to Australia from Britain; a ‘Pom’ → 1912 Aust. sl.
► PURE MERINO a person who has chosen to settle in Australia, as opposed to a convict or ex-convict; hence, a member of a leading family in Australian society → 1826 Aust. & NZ colloq.
► QUEEN STREET BUSHIE in Queensland: a city person with pretensions to country living, such as dressing like a cowboy or driving a 4WD → 2003 Aust. sl.
► QUEEN STREET COWBOY in Queensland: a city person with pretensions to country living, such as dressing like a cowboy or driving a 4WD → 2003 Aust. sl.
► QUEEN STREET RINGER in Queensland: a city person with pretensions to country living, such as dressing like a cowboy or driving a 4WD → 2003 Aust. sl.
► RABBIT a native-born Australian → 1907 Aust. sl.
► RANGER a bushranger → L19 Aust. sl.
► RASPBERRY-LANDERS natives or residents of Tasmania → 20C Aust. sl.
► RUGGER BUGGER a macho footballer → 1966 Aust. sl.
► SAND-GROPER a non-Aboriginal person, native to or resident in Western Australia → 1896 Aust. sl.
► SCRUB-TURKEY an itinerant who moves around the Australian bush; his long absence from urban life may have rendered him slightly eccentric → 1955 Aust. sl.
► SHEEP-SHAGGER an Australian or New Zealander (depends on what nationality the speaker is) → 2003 Aust. & NZ sl.
► SKIP an Anglo-Australian → 1987 Aust.
► SKIPPY a term for an English-, Irish-, or Scottish-descent Australian → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► SPLAW a person who lives or works in the bush → 1900 Aust. sl.
► STERLING a colonist born in England; natives of England → 1892 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► STRINE an Australian → 1964 colloq.
► STRINGY-BARK 1. a person who lives in the Australian outback; an uncultured or unsophisticated person; a ne’er-do-well → 1836 Aust. sl., obs.
2. a poor rural settler → 1984 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► SULLIVAN an Australian of British background → 1984 Aust. colloq., used especially by Australians of non-British background (Bk.)
► SUNDOWNER a tramp who makes a practice of arriving at a station about sundown under the pretense of seeking work, so as to obtain food and a night’s lodging → 1875 Aust. colloq.
► SYDNEY-SIDER a resident or native of Sydney → 1865 Aust. sl.
► TARPOT an Australian Aboriginal → 1894 Aust. sl., derogatory
► TASSEY ► TASSIE ► TASSY a native or resident of Tasmania → 1899 Aust. sl.
► TASSIE TIGER a native or resident of Tasmania → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► TASWEGIAN a Tasmanian → 1984 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► TOP ENDER a person from the Top End, the northern parts of the Northern Territory → 1941 Aust. sl.
► TOTHERSIDER a person from the eastern states of Australia → 1872 Aust. sl.
► UGLY AUSTRALIAN a rough, loutish Australian; an Australian yobbo → 1974 Aust. sl.
► UNBLEACHED AUSTRALIAN a Native Australian; an Aboriginal → L19 sl.
► UPTOPPER a native or resident of northern Australia → 1950 Aust. sl.
► VAN DIEMONIAN a native or resident of Tasmania → 1852 
► VANDEMONIAN an ex-convict from Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) → 1855 Aust. sl.
► WADGELLA a White man → 1927 Aust. pidgin version of ‘whitefellow’
► WALER a native or resident of New South Wales → 1885 Aust. sl.
► WALTZING MATILDA an Australian soldier → 1915 World War I Amer. sl.
► WESTIE a person who lives in the western suburbs of Sydney → 1980 Aust. sl.
► WESTRALIAN a native or resident of Western Australia → L19 Aust. sl.
► WHALER an itinerant tramp whose ‘beat’ focuses on the rivers of New South Wales → 1906 Amer. dial.
► WHINGEING POM a dissatisfied English migrant → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► WHITE LEGHORN in Australian Rules football: an umpire → 1988 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► WIDGIE a female ‘bodgie’ → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► WONGI a native or resident of the Kalgoorlie region → 1950 Aust. sl.
► WONK a non-Aboriginal Australian; used contemptuously or dismissively → 1938 Aust. sl.
► WOOLLOOMOOLOO YANK an Australian who modelled his behaviour on that of American soldiers on leave in Sydney during World War II → 1984 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► WOOLLOOMOOLOO YANK a World War II term for a local youth affecting American airs or assuming an American accent → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► YALLER GAL a half-white, half-Aborigine woman → 1834 Aust. & US sl.
► YAMIDGEE ► YAMMAGI ► YAMMIDGEE an Aboriginal, esp. an Aboriginal male → 1925 Aust. sl.
► YARRA BANKER an idler; a loafer found on the banks of Melbourne’s Yarra River → 1895 Aust. sl.
► YARRA BENDER an idler or loafer found on the banks of Melbourne’s Yarra River → 1885 Aust. sl.
► YARRASIDER a native or resident of Melbourne, Victoria → 1949 Aust. sl.
a male half-caste → 1937 Aust. sl.
► YELLER FELLA ► YELLER FELLER ► YELLOW FELLER a person of mixed Aboriginal and White parentage → 1913 Aust. sl.
► YELLOW AND BLACK an Australian Aboriginal → 1885 Aust. sl.
► YELLOW FELLOW a half-white, half-Aborigine man → 1834 Aust. & US sl.
► YELLOW GIRL a half-white, half-Aborigine woman → 1832 sl.
► YELLOW TAIL a native or resident of New South Wales → 1978 Aust. sl.

PHRASES
► AUSTRALIAN AS A MEAT PIE distinctively Australian in character → 1988 Aust. sl.
► BACK OF THE BLACK STUMP ► BEYOND THE BLACK STUMP in the far outback; in country areas beyond the reach of civilized comforts and facilities → 1984 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► CHEWY ON YOUR BOOT! directed at an opponent player about to shoot at goal (chewy = chewing-gum) → 1950 Aust. football usage
► HE COULDN’T GET A KICK IN A STAMPEDE said of a poorly performing football player → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► IF IT MOVES SHOOT IT, IF IT DOESN’T CHOP IT DOWN said to be Australia’s national creed → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► ON THE BOIL in football: running at full speed → 20C Aust. sl.
► SHE’LL BE APPLES used to typify the easygoing Australian attitude, particularly in the 60s & 70s → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► SHE’LL BE RIGHT used to typify the easygoing Australian attitude, particularly in the 60s & 70s → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)

VERBS
► BUSH BASH to drive across country where there are no roads → 20C Aust. sl.
► GO MULGA to take to the bush → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► GO ON THE WALLABY TRACK to go on foot, up-country, in search of work → 1892 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► GO WALKABOUT of an Aboriginal: to go on a walkabout → 1927 Aust.
► HUMP A BLUEY to carry a swag; to be a swagman → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► RABBIT in Australian football: ‘to collar a player by the ankles when his running with the ball’ → 20C Aust. sporting usage