| amber fluid (n) | beer |
| as full as a goog (adj) | drunk From English slang for egg: googy. |
| BAC (n) | blood alcohol concentration used to determine drunk driving |
| barbed wire (n) | Four X beer XXXX looks like barbed wire |
| beer buddy (adj) | drinking buddy |
| bend the elbow (v) | drink too much "He's been known to bend the elbow." |
| booze bus (n) | police van used in road blocks to catch drink drivers |
| boozer (n) | pub or tavern, a drinker |
| booze-up (n) | drinking spree |
| bottle shop, | liquor store |
| box of beer (n) | case of beer also slab or carton |
| bucks night (adj) | bachelor party |
| Bundy (n) | Bundaberg rum, made in Bundaberg, Queensland |
| butcher (n) | half-pint glass of beer (South Australia) |
| BYO (adj) | restaurant where you can bring your own alcohol |
| carton (n) | case of beer, also box or slab of beer |
| cellar door (n) | wine tasting room |
| Chateau Cardboard (adj) | cheap wine that comes in a cardboard box |
| Clayton's (adj) | fake, substitute Comes from a non-alcohol whiskey-like beverage called Clayton's. |
| cleanskin (n) | bottle of wine with no label; something that hasn't been used; an unbranded cow cleanskin wines can be bought cheap, or custom-relabelled |
| coldie (n) | a cold beer |
| draught (n) | Aussie spelling for "draft", wind or beer. "I feel a draught." "I'll take a draught beer." |
| drink driver (n) | drunk driver |
| drink with the flies (v) (adj) | drink alone |
| drop (n) | wine, drink "The Cab-Merlot is a good drop." |
| dry as a dead dingo's donger (adj) | dry, thirsty |
| dry as a nun's nasty (adj) | very dry |
| dry as a pommy's towel (adj) | very dry From the old myth that the English rarely bathe. |
| duck's dinner (adj) | drinking on an empty stomach |
| full, full as a boot (adj) | drunk "He's a bit full." |
| grog (n) | beer, liquor |
| gutful of piss (adj) | drunk |
| handle (n) | glass of beer (Northern Territory), pitcher of beer (Western Australia) |
| hens night (n) | bachelorette party |
| hotel (n) | a pub with a bottle shop, can also be a place that rents rooms |
| jug (n) | kettle, pitcher of beer |
| longneck (n) | large bottle of beer in South Australia |
| middy (n) | half-pint glass of beer |
| nudge the bottle (v) | to drink too much alcohol |
| off one's face (adj) | describing one who is drunk |
| on the turps (adj) | drunk |
| para, paralytic (adj) | very drunk |
| pickled (adj) | drunk |
| pint (n) | large glass of beer |
| piss (n) | beer |
| piss tank (adj) | big drinker |
| plagon (adj) | gallon bottle of cheap wine |
| plonk (n) | cheap wine |
| pot (beer) (n) | half pint glass of beer (Queensland, Victoria) |
| pub-crawl (n) (v) | drinking tour of the local taverns |
| put on the wobbly boot (v) | to get drunk |
| red ned (adj) | cheap red wine |
| rotten (adj) | drunk |
| schooner (n) | pint of beer (Queensland, Victoria), half-pint (South Australia) |
| screamer (n) | party lover, easy drunk |
| shickered (adj) | drunk From Yiddish. |
| shiraz (n) pronounced: sheer-ahz |
sirah (wine) |
| shout (v) | to buy a round of drinks, to pick up the tab "It's my shout." |
| sink a few (v) | to drink a few beers |
| skull (v) (pronounced skol) |
to chug a beer |
| slab (n) | case of beer also carton, box |
| slabbed (v) | Being penalized for a mistake by having to buy beer for everyone (a slab is a case of beer). "The director slabbed the cameraman when his mobile rang in the middle of a take." |
| stonkered (adj) | drunk "I'm stonkered." |
| stubby, stubbies (n) | bottle of beer, also short-short pants |
| stubby holder (n) | can cooler |
| tallie (n) | big bottle of beer |
| throw-down (n) | small bottle of beer |
| tinny (n) | aluminum can of beer; small aluminum skiff |
| tired and emotional (adj) | drunk |
| turps (n) | turpentine, also any hard liquor "He's on the turps." |
| two-pot screamer (adj) | one who gets drunk easily, often sloppily |
| VB (n) | Victoria Bitter beer |
| vigneron (n) | winemaker From the French. |
| way gone (adj) | very drunk |
| yankee shout (adj) | round of drinks where everyone pays for themselves |
| yardie (n) | a yard-long glass for drinking beer, holds almost a half gallon. Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke once held the world speed record for drinking one. |