Boot: the trunk of a car.
The most some common terms are: bathers – the most common term in Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania and occasionally in other states. From bathing suit. boardies – short for board shorts.
Well in America it was common to strap a travelling trunk to the back of the car for luggage purposes. Here we predated that and horse drawn wagons, particularly living vans had a box in the same place that was for your dirty boots. So the boot box became simply the boot.
The term 'ute' is simply Aussie slang.
Utes are seen as an integral part of Australian culture and the American term truck, derived from the discourse “pickup truck” has been viewed by some motor enthusiasts as unpatriotic language.
Depending on which country you are from, you may use the term, woollen sweater, wool jumper, pullover or jersey – they can all be used when referring to a wool jumper, woollen jumper Australia, knitwear Australia or woollen sweaters.
'Tracky' or 'trackie,' spelled either way, is the Aussie slang term for 'tracksuit,' that unflattering, kind of masculine but unisex athletic outfit also called a jogging suit but known by most of us as warm-ups.
Daks: Australians call their trousers 'daks'. If someone mentions 'tracky daks', they're talking about sweatpants.
Australian-produced utes were traditionally rear-wheel drive and with the cargo tray integrated with the passenger body (as opposed to a pickup truck, where the cargo tray is separated from the passenger body).
So, what's a ute? A ute it's a slang term in Australian English and a ute is just short for the phrase a 'utility vehicle' or what they would call 'a pickup' or 'a pickup truck' in the U.S. That's how they refer to it there.
Local Australian Uses
A campervan and a motorhome are interchangeable terms, that both refer to vehicles which can be driven and slept in. Both images on the right hand side are referred to as campervans (or motorhomes).
Aussie slang is full of alternative words for our trousers and underwear. Reginalds or Reg Grundies are rhyming slang for undies, while bloomers are known as bum shorts in Queensland, and scungies in New South Wales and the ACT.
In Australia, cannabis is also known as grass, pot, dope, weed, joints, mull, hydro, yarndi, ganja, bud, or green.
Definition. In Australia, chips can refer to 'hot' chips; fried strips of potato. Chips also refer to what are known in other countries as crisps.
Why do Australians call sweets “lollies”, even when they have no sticks? According to British English from A to Zed by Norman Schur (Harper, 1991) “lolly” derives onomatopoetically for the mouth sounds associated with sucking or licking. The word “lollipop” came later.
The shoe known in Australia as a "thong" is one of the oldest styles of footwear in the world.
Dunny is Australian/New Zealand slang for a toilet.
Loo or dunny - Thesea are slang term for toilet.
'Nugget'was used of a 'a small, stocky animal or person' in Australia from the middle of the 19th century.
donk (plural donks) (Australia, slang) A car's engine. (Australia, slang) A fool. (poker, slang, derogatory) A poor player who makes mistakes. (slang) A donkey (the animal).
The term road train is used in Australia. In contrast with a more common semi-trailer towing one trailer or semi-trailer, the prime mover of a road train hauls two or more trailers or semi-trailers.
Here in Australia, however, McDonald's most prevalent nickname is “Macca's”.
Esky is a brand of portable coolers, originally Australian, derived from the word "Eskimo". The term "esky" is also commonly used in Australia to generically refer to portable coolers or ice boxes and is part of the Australian vernacular, in place of words like "cooler" or "cooler box" and the New Zealand "chilly bin".
Flip-flops are also called thongs (sometimes pluggers) in Australia, jandals (originally a trademarked name derived from "Japanese sandals") in New Zealand, and slops or plakkies in South Africa and Zimbabwe. In the Philippines, tsinelas. In India, chappal, (which traditionally referred to a leather slipper).