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- backchat
- talking back
- back o’ Bourke
- a far way away, usually in reference to the outback
- bag
- verbally criticise
- bag of fruit
- rhyming slang for suit
- bags
- to call something
- banana bender
- a resident of Queensland
- bar of it
- see don’t want a bar of it, won’t have a bar of it
- barbie
- abbreviation of barbecue
- barney
- an argument or fight
- barrack
- to support your team or an individual
- Barry Crocker
- rhyming slang for shocker
- bash
- verbally criticise
- bat and ball
- rhyming slang for stall
- battler
- a hard working bloke who makes just enough to get by
- beak
- a judge or magistrate
- beat around the bush
- not getting to the point
- beaut/beauty
- describing something great
- beetroot
- Americans call it beets, it’s also an essential ingredient in an Aussie hamburger
- belt
- 1. to hit someone
- 2. to move exceptionally fast
- berko
- angry
- bewdaful
- variation of “beautiful”
- beyond the black stump
- out in the middle of nowhere
- biffo
- a fight
- big A
- see give it the big A
- big smoke
- a reference to the city from people in rural areas
- bikie
- a motorcyclist
- bikkie
- abbreviation of biscuit
- billabong
- a waterhole
- billy
- a tin can used in the bush for boiling water over a campfire
- billy lid
- rhyming slang for kid
- biscuit
- a cookie
- bitzer
- an animal of mixed breeds
- black stump
- see beyond the black stump
- blimey
- exclamation of surprise
- blinder
- 1. a good performance
- 2. to drink excessively
- block
- see do your block
- block of flats
- apartment complex
- bloke
- a male
- bloody
- adjective used to emphasize anything good or bad
- bloody hell
- expressing surprise
- bloody oath
- expressing approval
- blow in
- someone who just came into town
- blow through
- leaving town after a short stay
- blowie
- abbreviation of blowfly
- bludge
- sitting back and taking it easy instead of working
- bludger
- someone who bludges
- blue
- a fight or argument
- Bob’s your uncle
- expressing your understanding of a situation
- bodgy
- something of suspect quality
- boiled lollies
- hard candy
- bonnet
- the hood of a car
- bonzer
- something good
- boofhead
- an idiot
- boomer
- male kangaroo
- boomerang
- a tool used by Aboriginals for hunting, more well known as the throwing stick that comes back
- boot
- the trunk of a car
- bo-peep
- take a look
- bottle shop
- liquor store
- bottle-o
- see bottle shop
- brekkie
- abbreviation of breakfast
- brickie
- abbreviation of bricklayer
- Bris-Vegas
- Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland
- Brizzie
- abbreviation of Brisbane
- brolly
- abbreviation of umbrella
- brumby
- wild horse
- bub
- abbreviation of baby
- Buckley’s
- no chance
- buck’s night
- a bachelor or stag party
- bugger
- a person or thing
- bugger off
- another way of telling someone to go away
- buggered
- exhausted
- buggery
- slang term used for emphasis or to make a point, see also go to buggery
- Bugs Bunny
- rhyming slang for money
- bull bar
- known as a push bar to Americans, a large grill on the front of a vehicle to prevent further damage from hitting animals and other objects
- bung
- to put
- bunyip
- a mythical creature from the bush
- Burke and Wills
- rhyming slang for dills
- burl
- see give it a burl
- bush
- 1. a large forest-like area
- 2. a part of the country far from the city or out of town
- bush tucker
- food found out in the bush
- bush week
- see what is this? bush week?
- bushie, bushy
- someone who lives out in the bush
- bushranger
- an outlaw from the country’s early years
- butcher’s hook
- 1. rhyming slang for crook
- 2. rhyming slang for look
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