Browsing slang terms beginning with: a
- Ab
- Abalone. Large, edible sea snails.
- AB
- Halal snack pack. Layers of hot chips and kebab meat topped with sauce (garlic, chilli and bbq). Said A-B, not ab.
- Abo
- Aborigine (racial slur). The shortform for Aboriginal Australians with racist historical usage.
- Acca
- An academic. Someone with great theoretical or hypothetical - rather than practical or useful - knowledge.
- Acca Dacca
- AC/DC, Australian hard rock royalty.
- Ace
- Great, excellent.
- Adam’s Ale
- Water.
- Aerial Ping-Pong
- A playfully derisive name given to the game of Australian Rules Football by non-followers. It comes from observation that players frequently use long, high kicks through the air to pass the ball (footy, sherrin, prune, pill) to each other.
- Aggro
- Aggressive; aggravated; annoyed; bad tempered.
- Air Biscuit
- Fart.
- Akubra
- A famous rural felt hat with a wide brim and shallow crown.
- Alf
- A stupid person.
- Alice, The
- Alice Springs, the third largest town in the Northern Territory. Noted for its harmony and lack of social issues.
- Amber Fluid
- Beer.
- Ambo
- Ambulance officer.
- Anchors
- Brakes.
- Ankle Biter
- Little kid.
- Ant’s Pants
- The height of fashion and style. Or used in a negative sense of someone with an unreasonably high opinion of themselves. 'Ant's pants' is used in the same way that 'bee's knees' is.
- Anzac
- Australian soldier. Anzac is an acronym for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, originating from the Gallipoli campaign in 1915. The Anzac spirit or attitude is one of determination and courage in adversity.
- Apple Eater
- Someone from Tasmania.
- Apples, She’ll be
- It'll work out fine. Everything is okay.
- Apricots
- Testicles.
- Arthur or Martha, To not know whether you’re
- To be confused. A state often experienced at 5am on Sunday morning in Kings Cross.
- Arvo
- Afternoon.
- Ashes, The
- The name of the trophy in a test cricket competition held regularly between Australia and England. The ashes are literally the burned remains of a stump now held in the trophy (an urn).
- Aussie
- An Australian. Pronounciation as in 'Ozzy Osbourne'.
- Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi
- A crowd cheer, usually at an international sports event. It is a variation on the UK's Oggy Oggy Oggy chant from the 1970s.
- Aussie Salute
- Shooing flies away from your face with your hand.
- Avago ya mug
- Have a go, you mug. Said to encourage someone to do something they might otherwise wuss out of.
- Avo
- Avocado.
- Away with the Pixies
- Day-dreaming.
- Awning Over the Toy Shop
- The awning is a man's beer gut. The toy shop is his cock and balls.