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nuff-nuff

nuff-nuff  n.— «Getting It Wrong: Mr Sandler and his nuff-nuff voice in The Waterboy.» —“Movie Heaven & Mirth” by Leigh Paatsch Herald Sun (Melbourne, Australia) May 13, 1999. (source: Double-Tongued...

nuff nuff

nuff nuff  n.— «And the team’s name? “It was a nickname, as in, just a nuff nuff who was hopeless, who can’t throw the ball or catch,” says O’Regan.» —“Mixing It Up On The Netball Court” by Melissa Ryan The...

nuff nuff

nuff nuff
 n.— «Police speak…Nuff nuff a crazed lunatic.» —“Metropolitan” by Steve Perkin, Antony Catalano, Melissa Fyfe The Age (Melbourne, Australia) Mar. 20, 1997. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

Territory handshake

Territory handshake  n.— «In the film Australia, being filmed at Darwin’s Stokes Hill Wharf, screen veteran Bill Hunter’s character welcomes Nicole Kidman’s English aristocrat to the Territory with a pat on the bum. The cheeky pat, dubbed...

tick-pass

tick-pass  n.— «It’s not low average intelligence, it’s about ability to do the job.…Policing is more than just an academic tick-pass, it’s competency across a whole range of on-the-job experiences.» —“NZ police labelled ‘thick...

fraudband

fraudband n. low-quality broadband Internet service. Editorial Note: This term is especially common in Australia, although it has been repeatedly recoined throughout the Anglophone world. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)