Australian slang for a surfer — someone who's obsessed with riding waves and keeps a block of surf wax permanently in their pocket.
Australian slang for a surfer — someone who's obsessed with riding waves and keeps a block of surf wax permanently in their pocket. The term plays on the wax surfers apply to their boards for grip. A waxhead lives for the ocean, checks swell forecasts religiously, and will ditch any plan the moment the surf is pumping. It's affectionate rather than mocking, often used by surfers to describe themselves or their crew.
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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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Australian and general surf-culture slang for a surfer, specifically someone who rides a surfboard. The term has a casual, sun-drenched register that fits naturally in beach-community conversation. Most common in Australia and New Zealand but circulates wherever surf culture is active.
(Australia, slang, idiomatic, derogatory) Stupid, dull, or foolish.
Informal slang, used primarily in Australian and British English, for a heavy drinker or alcoholic. A boozehead is someone who drinks too much, too often — the person at every gathering who's already had too many before the event properly starts. The word is blunt and not particularly sympathetic, though it's often used with weary affection rather than genuine hostility. It belongs to a long tradition of booze-related insult words in Australian slang, where the drinking culture and the language around it are both very well developed.
The whole waxhead crew was down at the beach before sunrise to catch the morning swell.
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(Australia, slang) A surfer .
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(UK, obsolete, slang) A male cobbler .