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Reckon you know your Aussie slang?

Right, so you can 'G'day' with the best of them. But do you know your after darks from your Noah's arks? Is 'Darwin stubby' a beard or a beer? How well do you really know your Aussie slang? Take our quiz and find out!


1.	"He's so ocker"
	The word is a corruption of "shocker", a phrase from 1924 when Judge Alan Wicks described prolific Melbourne thief Danny Perkins as "an utter shocker of a child". Dockers in Australian ports were known for their foul mouths and rude manners. Eventually, the insult of likening someone to a docker simply became "ocker". Ocker was an international nickname for Oscar, made popular in Australia by a Ron Frazer character in the satirical television comedy, The Mavis Bramston Show.