| ACT (n) | Australian Capital Territory Australian equivalent of the District of Columbia |
| back of Bourke (adj) | far away From the remote town of Bourke in western New South Wales. |
| banana bender (n) | person from Queensland |
| beyond the black stump (adj) | far away, referring to giving bad directions. "We live just beyond the black stump." (The outback is littered with burned-black stumps.) |
| billabong (n) | pool in a streambed or waterhole. |
| Brizzie (n) | Brisbane |
| bush (n) | anyplace outside a town |
| CBD (n) | Central Business District, downtown area of a city "I've got to go into the CBD." |
| Coat Hanger, the (n) | Sydney Harbour Bridge |
| cockroach (n) | person from New South Wales |
| crow eater | person from South Australia |
| down the track (adj) | somewhere far from here |
| Down Under (n) | Australia and New Zealand |
| Ekka (n) | the annual Brisbane Exhibition First held in 1876, now the Royal Queensland Exposition. |
| Fremantle Doctor (n) | afternoon sea breeze off Perth |
| Freo | Fremantle, the port of Perth |
| Gabba, the (n) | Woolloongabba, the Brisbane cricket ground |
| gum sucker (n) | resident of Victoria |
| just across the road (adj) | someplace nearby |
| Kiwi (n) | New Zealander From the kiwi fruit that grows there. |
| Mexican (n) | person from the south of Queensland along the New South Wales border; also snowbirds who travel to Queensland from southeast Australia to avoid the cold winter |
| mud map (n) | map or diagram drawn in the dirt, any hand drawn map "I'll draw you a mud map of how to get there." |
| Never-Never, the (n) | the interior desert of Australia |
| New Holland | original name for Australia |
| not within cooee (adj) | beyond hearing distance An Aussie might yell "cooee" to locate someone in the bush. |
| NSW (n) | New South Wales |
| NT (n) | Northern Territory |
| Nullarbor Plain (n) | The treeless desert between South Australia and Western Australia Nullarbor is Latin for "no trees." |
| NZ (n) (pronounced: "en-zed) |
abbreviation for New Zealand "We're going to en-zed on holiday." |
| O.S. (adj) | overseas "Les is O.S." |
| outback (n) | distant Australian bushland |
| over east (adj) | the east coast of Australia |
| Oz (n) | Australia |
| Qnsld. (n) | abbreviation for Queensland |
| SA (n) | abbreviation for South Australia |
| sandgroper (n) | Western Australian |
| Steak and Kidney (n) | Sydney (rhyming slang) |
| TAS | abbreviation for Tasmania |
| Tassie (n) | Tasmania |
| Taswegian (n) | person from Tasmania (derogatory) |
| Top End (n) | far north of Australia |
| track (n) | trail "They hiked along the track." |
| typhoon (n) | Southern Hemisphere hurricane |
| Uluru (n) | Ayers Rock Aboriginal name for the huge red rock in the center of the country. |
| VIC (n) | abbreviation for the state of Victoria |
| WA (n) | Western Australia |
| whoop-whoop (n) | the boondocks, someplace far away, a small unimportant town "He lives way out whoop-whoop." |
| Yank (n) | An American from anywhere in the U.S. |