- I'm Geraldine Viswanathan.

- We are Australian, and we're gonna be defining

Australian slang for you today.

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- Hoon!

- Yeah, hooning, in your car.

- Live to hoon, just-

- But you can actually get pulled over and you get,

I was at the American Embassy in Australia,

and someone couldn't get into America

because they had a hooning charge from 15 years prior,

something crazy, so they couldn't go have their honeymoon.

Because they had an hooning charge,

which is literally, like, the charge

is literally for speeding, but they call it hooning.

- To me, I thought hooning was just driving around

with friends, listening to music, being a little rascal.

But-

- I thought, I coulda sworn, 'cause you literally

can get pulled, I think hooning is when

you're over 20 kilometers over the limit.

- Oh!

- It's called a hooning charge,

because it's such a hooligan.

- That's good to know.

So yeah, I don't, yeah,

I don't endorse that kind of hooning, then.

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Bloody ripper.

- Yeah, bloody ripper.

- [laugh] Wait, that sounded

amazing. - That's just an exceptional-

- In your voice.

- Exceptional term.

I like this one.

But you gotta say rippa,

so you almost replace

[typing] that E-R

with an A, [typewriter dings]

and that's a better phonetic pronunciation.

Rippa. Bloody ripper.

Exceptional legend.

[air whooshes] Tuck in.

Ah, food. Yeah.

Love it, yeah. - Dinner.

- Or food, yeah.

[murmurs] - Tuck into some tucker.

- Yeah, have some tucker.

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- Biccy!

- [laughs] Yeah! Biscuit.

- Biccy and some tea.

- But you gotta say it like that.

"Have a little biccy."

[Geraldine laughs]

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- Pash on!

- Yeah, get your pash on.

- Make out, baby.

- Have a little makeout, yeah. - Smoochin'.

- You're in high school, right?

- I don't know if I would really use it,

but it definitely feels like, yeah,

an extreme [laughs] Australian way to say making out.

"They pashed."

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Okay, Dacre, you wanna do this one?

- Ah, you beauty!

You beauty!

That's beauty used in a sentence.

An endearing form of describing how beautiful

something is, or a person is, or a experience is.

- I feel like the way I would use this,

if someone does something nice for me,

they'll be like, "Hey, I made you lunch,"

and I'll be like, "You beauty," you know?

- That's perfect.

[air whooshes] - Mates rates.

Like if it's your mate, he'll give you

mates rates on the expense.

He'll give you a little discount.

- Like if you have a mate that's a tradie,

which is a tradesperson, he's an electrician,

and if he usually charges 150 bucks an hour,

he'll do it for you for 50, 50 bucks.

[laughs]

That's a mates rate. - The most Australian sentence

ever uttered.

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Rubbers?

Oh! An eraser.

- Yeah.

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Brekky.

This is my brekky.

This is my brekky.

- Australia is really good at brekky, breakfast.

I feel like we've really, the cafes have really

figured out how to do a good brekky.

Just like avo toast.

I miss that the most about [laughs] Australia.

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Oh, cobber!

[laughs] - I don't know

this one. - This is still used.

Ah, cobber. It's like, some of my mates

have called me a cheeky cobber,

[laughs] which is like, I think,

I don't know what the actual, I guess,

the derivative of it is, but you say, "You cheeky cobber!"

[both laugh]

I don't know.

Again, I've got a friend that says that to me all the time.

And just always remember, replace

[typing] that E-R

with A, and you're Australian. [typewriter dings]

Cobba.

[air whooshes] - Ta.

Thanks!

- Yeah, yeah, thank you, ta.

[air whooshes] Coldie.

It's like a beer, right?

- A brew.

- Have a coldie, yeah.

- I reckon. - There's nothing

like a cold beer in summer on ice.

A good VB.

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Feeling crook is like feeling unwell,

like you're feeling real crook.

"I can't go to work today. I'm feeling really bloody crook."

- That's good.

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We say the dog's bollocks.

[laughs]

- Like bad?

- Do you use it?

- I've never used this.

- Yeah, like dog's [beep], dog's breakfast.

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Yeah, I mean, I've got this.

- Classic. Crikey!

- Crikey. Crikey, mate.

- You know, made world-famous by Mr. Steve Irwin.

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- Ah, that bloody galah!

It's like...

- Havin' a chat.

- [Dacre] It's like a galah.

- Like a birdie.

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Halfa. Half an hour.

"We'll be there in halfa."

- 30 minutes.

[Geraldine laughs]

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- Innit. This one's very British, though.

- That's a crazy story, isn't it?

Idn't it?

Innit? - Innit?

[Dacre laughs]

To me, if I'm doing a terrible English accent,

I'm probably gonna be like, "Innit?"

Like it feels very...

- It does feel very British.

- I think my English accent is worse

than my [laughs] regular accent.

I don't know why.

- I feel like there's so many different accents

in such a short sort of space,

like that's the hardest thing.

There's like so many tiny variations.

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- Get on the lappy.

Laptop.

- That's what I'm calling you from.

Yeah, lappy.

Get my lappy out.

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- "Oh, yeah, you mole!"

- I haven't heard this one!

- "You're ugly."

This is very "Puberty Blues." - Ah!

Oh, okay. - This is quite

an old-school term.

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- No dramas, no worries, no wackers.

Those are some variations.

It's just like it's no hassle, or no dramas.

"Do you want me to do this?"

"Yeah, no dramas."

- It's the whole Australian energy.

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- Reckon.

That's probably the one I use the most,

yeah. - Me too.

It's like I think, I think, would you say, Geraldine?

Like, "I reckon this is a good idea."

- Yeah, like, yeah, I reckon that's the right definition.

- Thank you so much for listening

to our partial definitions, or at least

my partial definitions of Australian slang.

- Yes, cheers!

- See you later.

- Catch ya!

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