A pair of Australian men interrupted their night of partying to foil a robbery, and captured much of it on video. They went on to give a hilarious interview about it all, in which one mentioned that he “tripped over a sign and busted my plugger.” The word plugger is an Aussie name for the type of rubber footwear also known as a flip-flop. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Plugger Australianism”
Grant, there is some delicious Australian slang in this video that’s making its way around the internet. It’s gone viral. It’s these two guys from Queensland who foiled a robbery, I think, while they were drunk, and they were being interviewed about it on a morning TV show.
And they used all this Aussie slang.
And people in this country have had to have glossaries along with the video because it’s so funny.
For example, do you know what a plugger is?
No.
A plugger is a piece of footwear.
It’s a thong.
Flip-flop.
Yeah, flip-flop.
Because if you think about it, the strap on the top goes through the sole and has a little plug.
Plug in the hole.
Yeah, and one of the guys was talking about how he slipped over and busted my plugger.
Didn’t mean his bum, though.
No, no, but it’s marvelous.
It was unintelligible to me until I found a site that had all of the slang explained.
So if we Google Australian foiled robbery TV show, something like a TV interview.
Google busted my plugger and see what happens.
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