325 definitions by gnostic3

n. Tiny gust of air. Any sparse briefly refreshing breeze on a sultry day. Originally an Australian term.

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place. Tiny, polite city proudly built between the granite bedrock of the shield and the cambrian silt that is Canada. Once the territory of a proud indigenous people who were badly advised and shuffled to obscurity, Winnipeg has become the twelfth tawdriest city in north america and the home of the seventh-best hockey team in Canada. Grain elevating and rock-sorting remain the leading industries altjough vestiges of fishing and a shrinking tourism industry survive. Annual floods have made home-building a prosperous undertaking and a large diorama in the newly built interpretive centre illustrates how the Red river overflows it’s banks in the same places every year and floods the ssme homes.

n. Delicious coating for making deep-fried koala even tastier. Much loved in finer Perth eateries.

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n. Aussie term for a terrific surfing wave with a white tumbling crest.

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n. Aussie term for a crooked politician.

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n. Lame pseudo-competition dreamt up to justify keeping a frozen sheet of ice in Toronto during September.

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v. Defeating the USA in any sporting competition. Also a sexual euphemism in Canada.

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