Browsing terms categorised by: Sports Slang
- 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.
- 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).
- Barrack For
- Cheer for, support a (footy) team.
- Biff, Bring back the
- A football spectator expression appealing to game administrators to stop coming down too hard on good old-fashioned brawling.
- Boilover
- A surprise result in a sporting event, from horseracing upsets when a hot favourite is defeated.
- Bum Sniffing
- Derogatory name for rugby because of the set-piece known as the scrum. In rugby union (and in a token way, rugby league), each team's eight forwards bind together, crunch into each other, and try to push the opposition eight backwards. This is the mechanism that creates cauliflower ears, and while bums may not actually be sniffed, a lot of nut grabbing and dirty shit happens here.
- Bye
- A team on its bye week doesn't play in that round of the competition.
- Carn
- Come on.
- Cross-country Wrestling
- A derogatory name for Rugby League. To fans of other codes, primarily Australian Rules Football, a game of Rugby League looks far too much like sweaty grappling.
- Curly Bells
- A grandstand (QLD).
- Football
- Football. This can mean Australian Rules Football, Rugby League, Rugby Union, or Soccer. Many soccer fans feel that the term 'football' should be reserved exclusively for their game, and resent that it is used predominantly to refer to the other codes.
- Footy
- Football. This can mean Australian Rules Football, Rugby League, Rugby Union, or Soccer. Context is everything. For example, someone with very few teeth, living in the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood, will almost certainly mean Aussie Rules Football when referring to the 'footy'. 'The footy' can also mean 'the ball'.
- Gabba
- The Brisbane Cricket Ground. Named after Wooloongabba, the suburb it's in.
- Maggot
- An umpire in Australian Rules Football. 'Maggot' is shortened from 'white maggot' which was used of umpires when their standard outfits were white (lime green from 2013).
- Mullygrubber
- A low ball in cricket. One that doesn't bounce.
- Pill
- The ball, in Australian Rules Football, Rugby League, and Rugby Union.
- Pinged
- Penalised for an infringment. Used in the footy codes, Australian Rules Football, Rugby League, and Rugby Union.
- Prune
- Ball used in Australian Rules Football.
- Punt, a
- A kick.
- Rah-Rah
- Rugby Union.
- Rain Maker
- In Australian Rules football, a kick in which the ball goes very high vertically, and not far horizontally.
- Sherrin
- A brand of ball used in Australian Rules Football. The ball is often called 'the sherrin'.
- The ‘G
- Short for 'the MCG'. The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) is Melbourne's premiere sports stadium and houses, primarily, AFL and Cricket matches.
- Throwball
- A derogatory term for the rugby codes. Many Australian Rules Football supporters consider rugby league and rugby union to be inferior, and not worthy of bearing the mantle of 'football'.
- Thugby
- Rugby.