Browsing terms categorised by: Aussie Drinking Slang
- A Green One
- Victoria Bitter (VB), a beer brand.
- Adam’s Ale
- Water.
- Amber Fluid
- Beer.
- Bevvy
- Drink (beverage), usually beer, must be cold.
- Blow in the Bag
- Blow in the breathalyser at a drink drive checkpoint.
- Booze Bus
- Police RV vehicle used for processing drunk drivers.
- Boozer
- Pub.
- Bottle-O
- Bottle shop, liquor store; off licence. Also, the trademarked name for a chain of liquor shops.
- Bundy
- A place (Bundaberg); a rum.
- Butcher
- A small, six-ounce glass of beer in South Australia.
- BYO
- Unlicensed restaurant. You have to Bring Your Own grog.
- Cab Sav
- Cabernet Savignon.
- Chateau Cardboard
- Cheap cask wine.
- Clayton’s
- Something that is largely illusory or exists in name only; a poor substitute or imitation. A term that was born out of a tv ad for a non-alcoholic drink.
- Cold Ones
- Cold beers.
- Dapto Briefcase
- Cheap cask wine.
- Drain the Lizard
- To urinate (men).
- Dry as a Dead Dingo’s Donger
- Thirsty.
- Esky
- Insulated plastic cooler box for food and drinks. Esky is short for Eskimo Box, a genericised trademark.
- Grog
- Alcohol, booze.
- Hammered
- Drunk.
- Licked
- Drunk.
- Loose, a bit
- Quite drunk.
- Maggot
- Hammered drunk.
- Off Guts
- Very drunk, high; wasted. A variation of 'off your face'. Often expressed as 'off me guts'.
- Piss
- Beer. Alcohol more generally.
- Piss, On the
- To be on the piss is to have a big drinking session.
- Pissed
- Drunk.
- Pisser
- The pub.
- Red Handbag
- Cheap cask wine.
- Sherbet
- A beer. Inspired by the frothy head of a just-poured glass of beer.
- Smashed
- Drunk.
- Tinny
- Can of beer.
- Tonguing For a Beer
- Thirsting and ready for a cold beer. Also 'tonguing for' can be used in other ways to also mean wanting, desiring. e.g. 'I'm tonguing for the new Bond movie'.
- Two-pot Screamer
- Someone who gets drunk without imbibing much, a lightweight.
- Vom
- To vomit.
- Wowser
- A professional kill-joy. Someone who thinks themselves morally superior, and passes judgement on others, particularly with regards to abstinence from alcohol.