Plonk is perhaps Australia's best-known word for alcohol. It originally meant cheap, fortified wine but over time came to mean any cheap alcohol.
The following list is a sample of terms used to reference alcohol: Booze. Firewater. Hooch. Sauce.
But the Australian slang for beer is amber fluid. Some states call it a pint, and in others, it is a schooner. Stubby meaning?
(2) "grog", a Naval term originally referring to a rum and water mixture. In the Australian context "grog" was used to describe diluted, adulterated and sub-standard rum. In the early decades of the Australian colonies "grog" was often the only alcoholic beverage available to the working classes.
Aussies use “cheers!” in a number of instances: to say thank you, in celebration, when drinking, and to say hello and goodbye. Get ready to hear “cheers mate!” a lot. No matter how strange sounding these Aussie slang terms are at first, you will inevitably adopt them in no time.
verbskols, skolling or skolled (tr) Australian informal to down (an alcoholic drink) in one go.
Cooter Brown, sometimes given as Cootie Brown, is a name used in metaphors and similes for drunkenness, mostly in the Southern United States.
The term “grog” can describe many different kinds of alcoholic drinks. In slang, “grog” can refer to any alcoholic beverage mixed with flavoring or soda. We are going to learn how to make an authentic sailor's grog. Our grog will be a simple combination of rum, water, honey, and lemon or lime.
Grog is a term used for a variety of alcoholic beverages. The word originally referred to rum diluted with water (and later on long sea voyages, also added the juice of limes or lemons), which Edward Vernon introduced into the British naval squadron he commanded in the West Indies on 21 August 1740.
An Australian pub or hotel is a public house or pub for short, in Australia, and is an establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. They may also provide other services, such as entertainment, meals and basic accommodation.
A blue is a fight, dispute or row. You can bung on a blue, stack on a blue or turn on a blue. The slang word has been around since the 1940s and is used to refer to everything from fisticuffs at the pub to a brawl on the footy field.
"Drier than a dead dingo's donger" – a classic slice of bush vernacular which several of you mentioned, but Adrian got in first.
Cross-faded is a common term for the effects of using multiple substances.
Booze. One of the most well-known and widespread nicknames for alcohol. The term has been discovered in use in England as early as the 14th century and is used today in all corners of the globe. Sometimes refers to heavy drinking but can be used as a term for alcohol in any context.
Pissed / Pished
Strictly speaking, “pissed” (or “pished” in Scotland) is a swear word and you shouldn't use it in a formal, professional or school context. However it is probably the most commonly used word in the UK to describe being drunk. If you spend any time in the UK, you will hear it all the time.
A tankard is a form of drinkware consisting of a large, roughly cylindrical, drinking cup with a single handle. Tankards are usually made of silver or pewter, but can be made of other materials, for example wood, ceramic, or leather.
The head (pl. heads) is a ship's toilet. The name derives from sailing ships in which the toilet area for the regular sailors was placed at the head or bow of the ship.
Munted (mun-ted) / Drunk
A colourful adjective used to describe a state of inebriation when someone has indulged in one too many frothies, also known as being pissed, legless, blind, or as full as the back of a plumber's ute. Munted also means something (or someone) that is unpleasant on the eye; ugly.
To 'swizzle' was to drink. Swizzling too much would make you 'blootered,' or thoroughly intoxicated.
Other plain terms for being drunk which appear in Grose include cup shot, pogy, top heavy, flawd, groggy or grogified, corned and fuddled. The latter was venerable even then, being first recorded in 1656. Addison and Steele used it in an article in The Tatler in 1709.
One of the terms we had already collected – but not yet put into the dictionary – was “bum nut” for an egg.
'Old Geezer' is Australian slang for an old man... and 'Old Geezers' are easy to spot. At a sporting event during the playing of the National Anthem, they will hold their caps over their hearts and sing without embarrassment. They know the words and believe in them.