(AU) A restaurant surcharge added to the bill for patrons who wear thongs (footwear) instead of shoes.
(AU) A restaurant surcharge added to the bill for patrons who wear thongs (footwear) instead of shoes.
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Aussie and Kiwi vocabulary — bogan, daggy, brekkie, sheila, bach, jandals — the whole Antipodean lexicon, including outback dialect, surf and beach culture, and Sydney/Melbourne street slang.
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(usually, in the plural, Australia, dated, _, in, _, US) An item of footwear, usually of rubber, secured by two straps which join to pass between the big toe and its neighbour.
(AU, informal, humorous) Inappropriate or unsafe footwear in an industrial workplace.
The glorious warm-weather stretch when flip-flops (called thongs in Australia and parts of NZ) officially replace closed-toe footwear as the default shoe for every occasion, appropriate or not. Thongs szn is declared at the first convincing stretch of sun and lasts until someone makes you wear actual shoes again. It's less about fashion and more about a collective seasonal surrender to comfort: grocery runs, beach days, restaurants with a dress code that you interpret generously. Thongs szn has no official end date — only a cold snap.
Part of a thong (underwear) visible when worn.
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(UK, US) An item of clothing, usually an undergarment or swimwear consisting of very narrow strips designed to cover just the genitals and nothing more.