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Awesome
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Fine, excellent
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Bach
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A holiday home (also known as a crib in the South Island)
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Barbie
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Barbecue (also written as BBQ) - food cooked outside over a charcoal or gas fire
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Beaut, beauty
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Something good or outstanding. Often used ironically to mean the opposite
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Bro
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Term of address for a male friend or relative
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Bright as a button
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Looking fresh, alert
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Bright spark
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Intelligent, alert, attentive, awake
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Bring a plate
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Everyone brings food to share. Don't bring an empty plate.
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Bush
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New Zealand's native forest
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Bushed, had it
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Exhausted
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BYO
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Bring Your Own. A BYO restaurant is a restaurant that allows customers to bring their own wine to drink with their meal.
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Chocka
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Full
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Choice
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Fine, excellent
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Clean as a whistle
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Sparkling clean
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Clown
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Term of abuse, idiot
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Crook
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To be ill or unwell. Also means a thief
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Cuz
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Term of address for friend or relative
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Dag
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An amusing person, a character
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Dork
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An idiot or a physically uncoordinated person
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Dough
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Money
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Drive around the bend
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Annoy so much you lose your temper
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Drongo
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A term of abuse, idiot
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Dude
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A cool or good looking male
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Feed
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A meal
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Flat tack
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At top speed
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Foxy, fox
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Used to describe a cool or good looking person of either sex
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Fully
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I agree
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G'dday
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Greeting meaning hello
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Got the blues
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Used to describe a sad state of mind
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Greenie
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A conservationist
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Gumboots
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Waterproof rubber boots (called Wellingtons in Britain)
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Grog
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Alcohol
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Grouse
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Fine, excellent, often used to express delight
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Hard case
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A tough but likeable person, an eccentric person
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Hard graft
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Hard work
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Head over heels
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Usually describing somebody who is very very happy
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Heart of gold
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Describing a person who is very kind
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Hook up
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Meet up or join in
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Hoon
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A noisy person, a lout
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In a spin
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Usually when too many things happen all at one time or too many choices
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Jandals
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Rubber sandals or thongs (called flip flops in Britain)
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Joker
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A man
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Kiwi
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New Zealand native bird symbol. New Zealander
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Lolly
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The usual word for a confection or sweet
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Mate
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A friend, also a term of address
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Mission
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An adventure
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Mongrel
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A term of abuse or contempt for a person
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Munted
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To be broken or distorted
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Narley
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Cool, good
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Nerd
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A boring person
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Nifty
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Good (applied to a thing)
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No worries
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Common phrase of agreement
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On to it
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Efficient or intelligent
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On a high
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A good feeling that can come from success
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Once in a blue moon
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Very rarely, seldom, almost never
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Paddock
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A field, also a sports pitch
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Paint the town red
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To go out and have a good time
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Piker
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Someone who opts out of an activity
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Pop on over/ pop in
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Come and visit me at my house
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Potluck dinner
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Everyone brings prepared food to share with all the guests
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Pressie
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A present (gift)
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Pub
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A bar where alcoholic drinks are served over the counter
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Rapt
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Very pleased
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Rellie
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A relation or relative
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Rough ride
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A difficult experience
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She'll be right
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Everything is going to be OK
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Shocking
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Very bad
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Shout
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To treat your friends to something such as a drink or a meal
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Skite
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To boast. A boaster or show-off
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Smoko
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Coffee or tea break
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Snowed under
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Usually has too much work or responsibility
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Spuds
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Potatoes
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Sticks
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Remote or rural district, the countryside
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Stinge/Stingy
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Not generous with your money
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Stoked
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Very excited
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Sweet as
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Great
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Swot
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Study hard, especially before an exam
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Ta
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Thanks
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To take for a ride
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To deceive or trick someone
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Togs
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Swimming costume
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Tucker
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Food
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Turn to custard
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Collapse of ideas, schemes, plans
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Unc/Unco
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An uncoordinated person, often used as an insult or taunt
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Under the weather
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Feeling off colour, unwell, tired
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Uni
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University
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Varsity
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University
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Veggies
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Vegetables
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Wicked
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Fine, excellent
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Wop-wops
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Remote or rural district, the countryside
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