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Watch Margot Robbie Define 50 Australian Slang Terms in Under 4 Minutes

The Suicide Squad star knows the difference between “chunders” and “chucking a sickie,” and now you will too.

Released on 07/06/2016


Hi, I'm Margot Robbie, and I'm gonna teach you

some Aussie slang.


Okay, a bludger is like someone who's lazy.

Fair dinkum, kinda like far out.

Good on you.

Oh, good on you, mate.

Like that.

So, it was a ripper of a party.

He's a ripper of a bloke.


Hard yakka.

Hard yakka's like hard work.

I've never used the word, doovalacky, in my life.

I have no idea what it means.

Oh, so if you crack onto someone,

you're hitting on them.

If you kiss too much, and like,

your face is all read, you say, you've got pash rash.

What you call a thong, we'd call that a g string,

or a g banger, but thongs to us are your flip flops.

He's a crook, he's a criminal.

I'm feeling crook, I'm feeling sick.

Chuck a sickie.

If you chuck a sickie, you're like calling in sick.

A bottle-o is a liquor store.

Tinny can either be a boat or a beer can.

Stubby, that's a bottle of beer.

Frothing for it, you're excited for it.

You froth those, you really like those.

Chunder, vomit, spew, throw up.

Barbie, barbecue.

Arvo, for avocado.

Arvo, for afternoon.

So yeah, like, it's arvo,

we're gonna go to the bottle-o, get a couple tinnies.

Daks are your pants, like trousers,

and so, if you dak someone, it's like when you

run up behind them, and you pull their pants down.

Whinge, so if you're whinging, you're complaining,

like you're whining.

If you're a dag, yeah,

you're kind of a dork, or a goof, or whatever.

A bog is a shit,

or poop as you would say in America.

A ute is a pick-up truck.

Jump in the back of a ute.

Togs, your bathing suit.

Put your togs on.


My nephew's a ratbag, like a little,

like a cheeky little so-and-so.

Someone who's like kind of misbehaving.



In America, I think you guys call fanny,

like your bum is your fanny.

In Australia, your front bum is your fanny,

if you're a girl.


I think you call it a cooler.

Cuppa, a cup of tea.

A dunny, it's a toilet.

Sitting on the dunny, sitting on the toilet.

Durry, it's a cigarette.

You can have a durry, have a dob.


I think everyone knows that one, a woman, a female.

Snag is a sausage.

Sook, someone who's having a cry, like having a sook.

Slab, slab of beers.

I think you would say a carton of beers.

If you're in a room, and you say it's chockers in here,

it's like, you can't move.

There's so many people, it's chockers in here.

(beep) wit.

Yeah, like a (beep) wit.

Doodle's like.

It's like kind of what you would call a penis,

if you were young.

A bogan's kind of like white trash.

Mozzie, mosquito.

Dogs eye.

I don't know what dogs eye.

I've never said that.

If you're a tosser, you're a dickhead,

a bit of a jerk.


I don't say hooroo.

I feel like that's kinda like an older person thing

to say, but hooroo.

I think it means like hello and goodbye.

Rackoff, like piss off.

Grommet's a young surfer.

Shithouse, toilet.

Kinda makes sense.

Old fella, like, I guess fella comes from fellow,

so an old man, like, some old fella

pranked my car.

What a wanker.

That sort of thing.

Reg grundies.

I've never heard that in my life.

I mean, if you chopped out this part,

and had it just as undies,

that's what I call underwear.

Spit the dummy.

Like have a tantrum.


He's totally off your rocker.

Come a guster?

I don't know what that means.

I think that's enough slang for one day.

Any Aussie's watching, I'm sorry I described them,


And for anyone not Aussie,

I hope you learned something.

Starring: Margot Robbie

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