crikey
(UK, Ireland, AU, Commonwealth) An exclamation of astonishment.
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"If supporters of Ben Roberts-Smith were genuinely interested in the truth, they’d ask the community to remember why these legal processes exist, and why we must let the wheels of justice turn." www.crikey.com.au/2026…
Crikey, came home to find a Jewish rave on my doorstep. MC-cum-rapper, amplified klezmer, dancing in the streets, great bowls of fire: the works.
I have been doing this "Reasons you need to promote me" doc and its been bouncing between myself, line manager and now the HR person for the last month. I know they mean well but crikey bikey it should not be like this.
Review | Readers curious about the pain Lattouf experienced behind the scenes in her fight against the ABC are well served. But the decision to turn Ita Buttrose’s testimony into song is, well, a head-scratcher. www.c…
It’s a multi-pronged strategy. “We don’t have emissions and you can’t prove otherwise. If we do, it’s only very small. And if it’s big, we’ve undone it with offsets and renewable credits. And if we haven’t, AI will fi…
📜 This word in 1898 dialectexpand
Written criky w. Yks. Lin. ; and in forms crike(s Nhb. ; crikums Dev. [krai'ki.] A vulgar expression of astonishment.
Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905)
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(UK, Ireland, AU, Commonwealth) An exclamation of astonishment.
“Crikey, came home to find a Jewish rave on my doorstep. MC-cum-rapper, amplified klezmer, dancing in the streets, great bowls of fire: the works.”
“I have been doing this "Reasons you need to promote me" doc and its been bouncing between myself, line manager and now the HR person for the last month. I know they mean well but crikey bikey it should not be like this.”
Crikey, mate, that ain't a knife, this is a knife!
“"If supporters of Ben Roberts-Smith were genuinely interested in the truth, they’d ask the community to remember why these legal processes exist, and why we must let the wheels of justice turn." www.crikey.com.au/2026/05/05/b... #auspol”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Crikey, came home to find a Jewish rave on my doorstep. MC-cum-rapper, amplified klezmer, dancing in the streets, great bowls of fire: the works.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I have been doing this "Reasons you need to promote me" doc and its been bouncing between myself, line manager and now the HR person for the last month. I know they mean well but crikey bikey it should not be like this.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Review | Readers curious about the pain Lattouf experienced behind the scenes in her fight against the ABC are well served. But the decision to turn Ita Buttrose’s testimony into song is, well, a head-scratcher. www.crikey.com.au/2026/05/05/a...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“It’s a multi-pronged strategy. “We don’t have emissions and you can’t prove otherwise. If we do, it’s only very small. And if it’s big, we’ve undone it with offsets and renewable credits. And if we haven’t, AI will fix everything for us anyway”. www.crikey.com.au/2026/05/04/d...”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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