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  2. Glossary of Australian railway terms - Wikipedia

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    A suburban electric train Spragger (SAR) Employee who applies brakes on rolling stock in yard work [2] Staff System of safe-working used on single track to allow the movement of trains; in its simplest form each block section had a small bar or staff which must be carried by any train moving over the section.

  3. Australian English vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Sheila – slang for "woman", derived from the feminine Irish given name Síle (pronounced [ˈʃiːlʲə]), commonly anglicised Sheila). Yobbo – an Australian variation on the UK slang yob, meaning someone who is loud, rude and obnoxious, behaves badly, anti-social, and frequently drunk (and prefixed by "drunken").

  4. List of police-related slang terms - Wikipedia

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    Australian slang term referring to a police roadside random breath testing station, which are often specialized buses. [citation needed] Boy Dem / Boydem / Bwoy Dem Jamaican-origin slang term, also popular in the UK and Toronto. [9] The Boys Term used by African-American communities in Baltimore. [citation needed] Boys in Blue

  5. Australian slang terms every visitor should know - AOL

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  6. Woman rescues girl about to be hit by a train with seconds to ...

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    A young girl in Sydney, Australia, came very close to getting hit by a train. She was playing with a hoola-hoop on the platform when it rolled onto the tracks. Then, the girl ran after it and ...

  7. Australian slang - Wikipedia

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  8. Lit, crazy, movie': TikTok slang decoded [Video] - AOL

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    TikTok has ironically embraced a drunk guy's description of an epic night out. TikToker @mia.sullivann interviewed "drunk people" when she struck viral gold. She asked a young man to describe his ...

  9. Diminutives in Australian English - Wikipedia

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    By extension, a farmer, e.g. "cow cockie" for dairy farmer. Also slang for cockroach; Coldie, a cold can or stubby of beer, as in "crack a coldie" [16] Connie, a bus or train conductor, [17] a condom; Coota, Cootamundra, also barracouta [16] ‡Compo, compensation for being injured at work. Generally not used for other forms of compensation.