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- rabbit
- a player who is not very good at batting
Also called a bunny, and neither of which are as bad as being the ferret .
cricket slang
- rabbito
- a hawker of rabbits
- rabbit-proof fence
- a pest-exclusion fence
The State Barrier Fence of Western Australia, also known as the Emu fence, was designed to keep rabbits and other agricultural pests from the east out of the pastoral areas.
It consists of three fences:
- # 1 crosses the state from north to south,
- # 2 is smaller and further west,
- # 3 is smaller still and runs east‑west.
constructed between 1901 and 1907
- race
- 1 a fenced passageway for drafting sheep or cattle
- 2 a passageway for players to access the ground at a football field
- racehorse
- a thinly rolled tobacco cigarette or marijuana joint
originally prison slang
- race off
- to seduce someone
He raced her off to the bedroom. - racers
- a brief men's swimming costume
See speedos for a full set of synonyms. - rack off!
- go away!
- Rafferty's rules
- no rules at all
- rage
- a lively party
- rainmaker
- a very high kick
aussie rules
- rapt
- pleased, delighted
From the archaic word enrapture. - rare as rocking-horse shit
- non-existant or exceedingly scarce
- rashie
- a lycra garment worn to prevent a rash
surfie slang
- ratbag
- 1 a despicable, untrustworthy person
- 2 an eccentric person
aussie slang since the 1940s
- ratter
- one who enters anothers mining claim
With the intention to steal opals, etc. Usually a nocturnal activity.
The cops are coming down hard on ratters! - rattle your dags
- hurry up
We'll be late! Rattle your dags A dag is a lump of excrement-matted wool on a sheep's rear first recorded in the 1980s
- rat shit
- feeling unwell
- raw prawn
- attempt to deceive by feigning ignorance
In other words, something which is difficult to swallow.
Don't come the raw prawn with me, mate.wwii military slang
- razoo
- worth nothing at all
Commonly used in the expressions
I haven't got a brass razoo
or Not worth a brass razoo. Possibly from sou, a small French coin, or a rahu, from NZ.
wwii soldiers slang
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- reckon!
- you bet! absolutely!
- Redfern ∼ get off at…
- coitus interruptus
Because in Sydney Redfern Station is the last stop before the terminus at Central Station, whereas Melbournites will often get off at Richmond - redback spider
- a highly venomous spider
Latrodectus hasseltii, also known as the Australian black widow spider.
It is believed to originate in the deserts of SA and WA, but now found throughout Australia, SE Asia and New Zealand.
The adult female is easily recognised by her spherical black body with a prominent red stripe on the upper side of her abdomen and an hourglass-shaped red/orange streak on the underside.
Females usually have a body length of about 10 mm, while the male is much smaller, being only 3–4 mm long. Mainly nocturnal, the female redback lives in an untidy web in a warm sheltered location, commonly near or inside human residences. It preys on insects, spiders and small vertebrates that become ensnared in its web. It kills its prey by injecting a complex venom through its two fangs when it bites, before wrapping them in silk and sucking out the liquefied insides. - red goshawk
- an australian hawk
Probably the rarest endemic bird of prey, Erythrotriorchis radiatus is a large brown bird with a cream head, throat, and red-brown underparts.
It feeds on live prey, mostly other birds and small ground animals, and is found throughout northern and eastern Australia. - red ned
- inexpensive red wine
Used to be sold in a flagon, nowadays it is usually sold in a cask - rellie ∼ rello
- a relative
- rego
- motor vehicle registration
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- ridgie didge
- the truth, the genuine article
- right
- as it should be
No worries, she'll be right. - ringer
- 1 the fastest shearer in a shearing shed
From an earlier, now obsolete, sense, where a ringer was any person or thing that was superlatively good.
aussie slang since the 1870s
2 a stockman or drover
So called because they ring or circle the stock to keep them together.
aussie slang since the 1900s
- ringie
- runs the centre of the two-up ring
When all bets are placed the ringie places the pennies on the kip, tails up, and the boxer gives the call:
Come In Spinner - ring in
- 1 a substitute racehorse or greyhound
A racecourse deception to obtain favourable odds.
Also called a ringtail.
racing slang since the 1930s
- 2 in two-up, to switch coins
By substituting a double-sided coin for a genuine one.
gambling slang since 1918
- ripped
- affected by drugs or alcohol
- ripper
- really great, fantastic
- rizzle
- a returned services club
The Returned and Services League of Australia is a support organisation for men and women who have served or are serving in the Defence Force.
These licensed clubs were established to provide hospitality for war veterans and a place to build on their comradeship by providing bar and dining facilities, and have areas for two-up and pokies. Each evening at 6 pm The Ode is read, followed by one minute's silence to honour those who died serving their country.They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
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- road train
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interstate truck with many trailers - roadie
- 1 alcohol purchased to take away after drinking somewhere
- 2 a final drink prior to leaving
- 3 a person who transports and sets up a band's equipment
- roll over
- 1 by an offender
One who makes a confession in a way that implicates others, in order to gain more favourable treatment.
2 by a witness in a court case
One who was previously hostile who decides to provide evidence helpful to the interrogator.
3 by a politician
One who resigns gracefully. - rollie
- a roll-your-own cigarette
As opposed to a tailor-made - roo
- kangaroo
- roo bar
- a strong bumper attached to a vehicle
To absorb the impact when hitting a kangaroo – or anything else! - root
- sexual intercourse
- rooted
- 1 exhausted, tired
I'm rooted after all that hard yakka ...
2 broken
The donk in your tinnie is rooted! - ropeable
- very angry
- rotten
- very drunk
- rooned
- ruined
From a poem by the bush poet John O'Brien describing the recurrent cycle of droughts, floods and bushfires throughout the country. The key refrain in the poem is We'll all be rooned, the Irish pronunciation of ruined, which has become a dismissive response to predictions of disasters or hard times.written and coined in 1919
- rort
- a fraudulent or dishonest act or practice
What a great rort! - rough
- unfair, unjust
- rousie
- roustabout
Any outdoor worker with broad-based, non-specific skills.
Commonly found in rural occupations, especially sheep farming and oil-rigs. - rubbidy
- a pub
rhyming slang: rub-a-dub-dub for pub
- ruckus
- commotion
- rug up
- dress in warm clothes