| ta (interjection) | thank you imitation of baby talk |
| TAB (n) | Totalizator Agency Board, neighborhood legal? betting shop |
| tailor made (adj) | ready made cigarette not hand-rolled |
| take away (n) (v) | take-out (food) |
| taken the mick out of (v) | to make fun of someone |
| taking the piss (out of) (v) | to mock someone, to bring someone back to level |
| tall poppies (adj) | successful people |
| tall poppy syndrome (n) | Aussie habit of resenting and putting down successful people |
| tallie (n) | big bottle of beer |
| TAS | abbreviation for Tasmania |
| Tassie (n) | Tasmania |
| Taswegian (n) | person from Tasmania (derogatory) |
| tat (n) | tattoo |
| tea (n) | dinner, evening meal |
| tea towel (n) | dish towel |
| Technicolor yawn (v) | to vomit |
| teddy (n) | any stuffed toy not exclusively a teddy bear |
| TEE (n) | Tertiary Entrance Exams (Western Australia) Extensive testing on high school leavers. The primary criteria for admittance to university. |
| tee-up (v) | to set up an appointment We'll tee-up a meeting |
| telly (n) | television |
| Telstra (n) | the partly-government owned phone monopoly It was once wholly government-owned and is currently being privatized. |
| ten-pin bowling (n) | American style bowling, as opposed to lawn bowling. |
| test (n) | a cricket game |
| texta (n) | felt-tip marking pen Texta is a brand, but is used generically for any felt-tip colored pen. |
| TFN (n) | Tax File Number equivalent to Social Security Number |
| Thank your mother for the lunch money. | "You've been taken advantage of." |
| the lot (n) | everything "In the divorce, she took the lot." |
| the lot (n) (as on a hamburger) |
everything on it Usually lettuce, tomato, shredded carrots, a slice of beet, a slab of bacon, and a fried egg; for some reason, cheese isn't included. |
| the order of the boot (adj) | to get fired |
| the whole box of dice (adj) | everything |
| thingo, thingy (n) | a thing, gizmo, watchamacallit |
| thisiv (n) | this afternoon For those too lazy to say sarvo. |
| tight arse (adj) | stingy person |
| throw a tanty (v) | throw a tantrum |
| throw a wobbly (v) | throw a tantrum |
| throw-down (n) | small bottle of beer |
| tickets (v) | bragging "You've got tickets on yourself." |
| tickety-boo (adj) | good, OK |
| timber (n) | wood for construction "The house was built of timber and iron." |
| timber getter (n) | logger |
| tin-arsed (adj) (pronounced assed) |
lucky |
| tinkle (v) | to call someone on the telephone "Give me a tinkle tomorrow." |
| tinny (adj) | lucky "You tinny bastard!" |
| tinny (n) | aluminum can of beer; small aluminum skiff |
| tip (n) | garbage dump "I took that load of rubbish to the tip." |
| tip truck (n) | garbage truck |
| tipping (v) | sports betting, predicting the winner of a game or series Tipping competitions are common and legal. |
| tired and emotional (adj) | drunk |
| toast soldier (n) | strip of toast dipped in egg yolk |
| toey (adj) | edgy, horny, nervous |
| toff (n) | upper class or richly-dressed person British slang |
| togs (n) | sports clothes, swim suit |
| toilet (n) | restroom, bathroom |
| tomato sauce (n) | ketchup |
| tonne (adj) | metric ton, 1,000 kilos, 2,200 lbs. |
| toolies (n) | older male sexual predator |
| Top End (n) | far north of Australia |
| top-dress (n) (v) | to surface a playing field |
| torch (n) | flashlight |
| towing A-frame (n) | tow bar for pulling one car with another |
| town bike (adj) | slut |
| track (n) | trail "They hiked along the track." |
| trackies, tracky-dacks (n) | track suit, sweatpants |
| tracking vehicle (n) | insert car (movie production) |
| tradie (n) | tradesman (carpenter, bricklayer, etc.) |
| trannie (n) | transistor radio |
| trapezium (n) | trapezoid (geometric shape) |
| trolley (n) | shopping cart, hand truck |
| trouble and strife (n) | wife rhyming slang |
| truckie (n) | truck driver |
| true blue (adj) | patriotic Aussie |
| tuck shop (n) | school cafeteria |
| tucker (n) | food |
| turfed (v) | thrown out "He got turfed out of the pub." |
| turnover (v) | Order used instead of "roll camera" on an Aussie movie set. |
| turps (n) | turpentine, also any hard liquor "He's on the turps." |
| twenty-eight bird (n) | Australian ringneck parrot Their cry sounds like, "Twenty-eight!" |
| twenty to the dozen (adj) | to do something very fast |
| Two Up (n) | gambling game, tossing two coins into the air to see how they land Played in the bush and casinos. |
| two-pot screamer (adj) | one who gets drunk easily, often sloppily |
| typhoon (n) | Southern Hemisphere hurricane |
| tyre (n) | tire |