(slang) A parkkeeper; an employee of a public park.
Walking into the inner-city Brisbane suburb of West End one morning, I witnessed a group of Aboriginal “parkies” being moved on from a corner of the main road.
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(AU, NZ, colloquial) An Aboriginal who sleeps rough in parks.
The health service was a sanctuary for Aboriginal people, especially the “parkies” – a young Roach among them – who were living on the nearby streets, many having gravitated to inner-city Melbourne to try to trace their families after ye…
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(UK, Irish, slang) A parking or traffic warden.
Some people with Parkinson’s embrace being called a ‘Parkie’, while others hate the term.
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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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