(Australia, New Zealand) A gambling game similar to bingo.
(Australia, New Zealand) A gambling game similar to bingo.
Aficionados continued to play housie for the rest of the decade, but always under the threat of criminal prosecution.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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(Australia, slang) A resident of public housing.
Australian slang for a resident of public housing, formed in the typical Australian manner by shortening and adding '-o'. The term can be used neutrally or with condescension depending on the speaker, and carries the social weight of class and housing inequality in Australia.
(Australia, New Zealand, horseracing, figurative) Assured of winning.
(Australia, _, slang) An outhouse; an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
(slang) One who is not homeless.
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