Grog is a general term for beer and spirits (but not wine). Australians enjoy having a few beers or a bevvie (short for beverage), a frostie, a coldie or a couple of cold ones. Beer is also known as liquid amber, amber nectar or liquid gold.
Tinnies = Cans of Beer
But the Australian slang for beer is amber fluid. Some states call it a pint, and in others, it is a schooner. Stubby meaning?
carton. a cardboard case of 24 cans/bottles of beer. Compare block2, box, case2, slab. Contributor's comments: Also used in Tasmania. Contributor's comments: The term "carton" is widely used in Western Australia.
Plonk is perhaps Australia's best-known word for alcohol.
The following list is a sample of terms used to reference alcohol: Booze. Firewater. Hooch. Sauce.
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.
So when one of your Aussie friends approaches you with a question “Want to grab an amber fluid?” note that he/she is asking you if you would like to 'Grab a beer.”. Now it appears that Aussies don't shorten everything since 'amber fluid' is longer than simply 'beer'.
Queensland & Tasmania - commonly known as a 'pot' Victoria - commonly known as a 'pot'. While most states will serve you a schooner if you ask for 'a beer', Victoria will actually serve you a pot.
Pot, middy, handle, or 'seven'
Whether you like your beers full-strength or alcohol-free, a 285ml glass of beer is widely known as a pot in the cultural state of Victoria.
Chugging is usually attached to beer drinking. It involves drinking a lot of alcohol, usually beer, as fast as people possibly can. Chug probably came from the word “chugalug”.
Libationist: This goes a little bit beyond being just a lover of beer. a true libationist will be very familiar with the ingredients that are in a certain beer and know about the brewery it came from and their brewing process.
Thracians were also known to consume beer made from rye, even since the 5th century BC, as the ancient Greek logographer Hellanicus of Lesbos says. Their name for beer was brutos, or brytos. The Romans called their brew cerevisia, from the Celtic word for it. Beer was apparently enjoyed by some Roman legionaries.
In Australia, cannabis is also known as grass, pot, dope, weed, joints, mull, hydro, yarndi, ganja, bud, or green.
Skull: To 'chug' a beer. Generally in one go. Smoko: A smoke or coffee break.
Let's start with the most common, most well-known, and most quintessentially Australian slang term for girls: Sheila. While everywhere else in the English-speaking world, Sheila is a specific person's name, in Australia it can be used to refer to any woman or girl.
Broadcaster and wordsmith Kel Richards says the meaning of the Australian phrase “hoo roo” is simply “goodbye”. That is the Australian version – it doesn't exist anywhere else in the world – but it's descended from a group of English words like hoorah and hooray,” he told Sky News host Chris Smith.
Mate. “Mate” is a popular word for friend. And while it's used in other English-speaking countries around the world, it has a special connection to Australia. In the past, mate has been used to address men, but it can be gender-neutral.
Lemony means annoyed, as in, I got lemony at the kid. This piece of Aussie slang dates back to the 1940s.
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.
Cross-faded is a common term for the effects of using multiple substances.
Lager is the term generally used in England for bottom-fermented beer. Despite the traditional English beer being ale, more than half of the current English market is now lager in the Pilsener and Export styles.