Australian informal shortening of 'chicken parmigiana', the popular pub meal of crumbed chicken breast topped with tomato sauce and melted cheese. The great Australian debate over whether it is a 'parmi' or 'parma' is a minor but persistent cultural touchstone -- 'parmi' is more common in Victoria and South Australia, 'parma' in Queensland. Either way it is an institution of Australian pub culture.
He ordered a parmi and a schooner, the most Australian meal imaginable.
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Aussie shorthand for chicken parmigiana — the pub classic of a crumbed chicken breast topped with tomato sauce, ham, and melted cheese. Ordering a parmi at any Australian pub is an institution in itself; debates over whether to call it a 'parmi' or 'parma' are taken with surprising seriousness depending on which state you're in. It's comfort food, footy-night staple, and a benchmark for judging a pub's quality all rolled into one.
We won the grand final, so naturally we went straight to the pub and ordered a round of parmis.
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(Australia, informal) A chicken parmigiana.
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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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