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| Cab Sav | cabernet sauvignon (a variety of wine) |
| Cabbie | taxi driver |
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Cactus |
dead, not functioning |
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Cakehole |
your mouth |
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Call it a day |
to finish what you have been doing for the day |
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Camp oven |
large cast iron pot with a lid, for cooking on a open fire |
| Cancer stick | cigarette |
| Cane toad | someone from Queensland |
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Captain Cook, have a |
have a look at something |
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Cark it |
to die |
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Carpetbagger steak |
beef stuffed with oysters |
| Centralia | the inland region of Australia |
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Chalkie |
teacher |
| Champers | champagne |
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Cheapskate |
someone will not spend money or tight wad |
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Cheerio |
saying goodbye |
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Cheese & kisses |
the missus, you wife |
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Chew the fat |
have a good talk together |
| Chewie | chewing gum |
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Chinwag |
having a good chat |
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Chippie |
carpenter |
| Chokkie | chocolate |
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Chock a block or Chocker's |
full to the point you can fill no more or crowded to over flowing |
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Choof off |
go now |
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Chook |
a chicken, rooster or hen |
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Chuck |
throw something or vomit |
| Chuck a spazz | to go off the boil, get out of control angrily |
| Chuck a U-ee | make a U-turn, 180 degrees |
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Chunder |
vomit |
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Clanger |
tell a real big lie or say something inappropriate or a shock |
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Claytons |
a fake, substitute.. Claytons is a non alcoholic drink billed as 'the drink you're having when you're not having a drink' |
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Cleanskin |
unbranded cattle or not a criminal, or bottle of wine without a label |
| Click | kilometre - "it's 10 clicks away" |
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Clobber |
Clothes or to hit someone |
| Codger | a bloke, fellow, especially elderly and a little odd |
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Clocked someone |
you're hit someone |
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Clod hoppers |
your feet |
| Clucky | feeling broody or maternal |
| Coat hanger | Sydney Harbour Bridge |
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Cobber |
a mate, a close friend |
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G'day Cobber |
welcome close friend |
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Cock up, something is a |
its gone all wrong |
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Cock and bull |
something is a lie (cock and bull story) |
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Cockroach |
someone who lives in the state of New South Wales, don't ask why |
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Cockie |
farmer |
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Cockie |
cockroach or cockatoo |
| Cockeyed | twisted or slanted to one side; foolish, absurd |
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Codswallop |
cods-swal-lop a lot nonsense or a lie |
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got no Coin |
got no money |
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Coldie |
a cold beer |
| Come a gutser | make a bad mistake, have an accident |
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Compo |
compensation (worker's compensation) |
| Conch | conscientious person. Somebody who would rather work or study than go out and enjoy themselves |
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Conk |
to hit someone |
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Cooee |
call for greeting someone at a distance in the bush or a long way off - far away |
| Cook | one's wife |
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Cop it sweet |
to get what's coming to you, without try to get back at them |
| Corker | something excellent. a good stroke in cricket might be described as a 'corker of a shot' |
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Corroboree |
aboriginal festival dance, gathering |
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put on your Cossie |
put on your clothing |
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you will be waiting till the Cows come home |
you be waiting all day |
| Counter meal | pub lunch |
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Cow Juice |
milk from a cow |
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Cozzie |
swimming costume (NSW) |
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that's a load of old Crap |
a lie |
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stop the Crap! |
stop what you are doing or saying its not right |
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off to the Crapper |
you off to the toilet |
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Crack onto |
to make a pass at/chat up someone |
| Cranky | in a bad mood |
| Crapper | toilet |
| Crash | to stay over at someone else's place |
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Creamed someone or team |
beaten someone else or a team by a huge margin |
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Crikey! |
surprise at something |
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Cripes!! I've stepped in something |
in extreme discomfort (as in having stepped into dog poo barefoot) |
| Croc | absurd, untrue, load of rubbish |
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Crockery |
teeth |
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Crook |
ill or something that is not functioning or a criminal |
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feeling Crook |
not feeling well |
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Crook as Rookwood |
very unwell (Rookwood is a cemetery in western Sydney) |
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Croweater |
someone who lives in the state of South Australia, that state's outback has a lot of crows |
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Cruddy |
something of low quality |
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to make a Crust |
to earn a living, work for wages |
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not worth a Crumpet |
something is worthless |
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Cunning as a shithouse rat |
someone is very cunning and sneaky |
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have a Cuppa |
have cup of tea or coffee |
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Curly |
nickname for a bald person |
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give someone a bit of Curry |
give someone a hard time of it |
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Cut someones lunch |
get involved with someone's partner or possession |
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you need to take a Cut lunch |
where you going is a long walk |
| Cut lunch commando | army reservist |
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mad as a Cut snake |
someone very upset, that could do anything |
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Cow-tow |
bow and scrape to someone |
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