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| Cack | laugh |
| Cack-handed | left-handed |
| Cackle berries | chickens eggs - the chicken is called a cackler submitted by Dottle |
| Cactus | dead eg. its cactus |
| Cakehole | your mouth |
| Call a spade a spade | telling the complete truth no matter how hard it is to take |
| Camp as a row of tents | Homosexual submitted by David Lammin |
| Camp oven | large cast iron pot used for cooking on an open fire |
| Can | gaol (jail) |
| Can it! | tell someone to stop it or shut up |
| Captain Cook | a look (rhyming slang) |
| Cark it | to die |
| C'arn | abbreviation for come on eg. c'arn the Raiders! |
| Carpetbagger Steak | beef stuffed with oysters |
| Carpet grub | small child |
| Carry on like a pork chop | behave in a stupid way |
| Cashing in on the act | taking advantage or making the most of the situation submitted by Stella |
| Catch some zzz's | have a sleep |
| Charge like a wounded bull | excessively high prices |
| Chalkie | teacher |
| a Change is as good as a holiday | a break in normal routine can be as good as having a full holiday |
| Cheap drunk | a person that gets intoxicated quickly |
| Cheap skate | miser |
| Cheeky | someone who is having fun with you and teasing you in a fun way |
| Cheerio | goodbye |
| Cheese and kisses | missus (rhyming slang) |
| Chewy on yer boot | I hope your accuracy is faulty ~ The scene is the MCG after the siren has gone and the opposition which has just taken a mark has a chance to kick a goal and win the match. Their champion fullforward has taken a mark only 20 yards out from goal, right in front. It seems hopeless. What can a keen barracker do? Pray that they will step on a gob of chewing gum - or in some other way fail to complete a simple kick! (Full explanation care of Patricia Rogers) |
| Chew the fat | have a good talk together |
| Chinwag | a chat or gossip |
| Chippy | carpenter |
| Chockablock/Chockers | filled to capacity |
| Choof off | leave |
| Chook | a chicken, rooster or hen |
| may your Chooks turn into emus and kick your shithouse down | something you say to someone you're really pissed off with (angry with) |
| Choppers | teeth |
| Chrissie | christmas |
| Christmas grip | someone has hold of your testicles |
| Chuck | throw something; vomit |
| Chuck a wobbly | throw a tantrum |
| Chuck up | throw up; vomit |
| Chunder | vomit |
| Clackers | false teeth |
| Clanger | a really big lie, a shock |
| Claytons | a fake taken from the drink called claytons - the drink your having while your not having a drink - non-alcoholic beverage |
| Cleanskin | unbranded cattle |
| Climb the wall | go mad |
| Clobber | clothes; or to hit someone eg. he clobbered the bloke! |
| Clod hoppers | your feet or shoes |
| Clued up | well informed |
| Cluey | bright, intelligent |
| Cobber | mate, friend |
| Cock and bull | a lie (cock and bull story) |
| Cockie; Cocky |  cockatoo; cockroach; farmer; cheeky; full of him/herself |
| Cock jocks | men's swimmers or bathers |
| Cockroach | someone who lives in NSW, Australia |
| Cock up | something didn't go right |
| Cods | male testicles |
| Coddswallop | a lot nonsense or a lie |
| Coffin Nail | cigarette |
| Coin | money |
| Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey | freezing cold |
| Colder than a polar bear's behind | extremely cold |
| Coldie | cold can of beer |
| Collywobbles | feeling of apprehension |
| Come a cropper | fall heavily; have a setback |
| Come in spinner | called in the Aussie two-up coin tossing game (played on Anzac day each year) |
| Comic Cuts | stomach or guts (rhyming slang) |
| Compo | compensation (worker's compensation) |
| Conk | to hit someone |
| Cooee | call for greeting someone at a distance in the bush |
| Cook the books | falsify records |
| Coot | fellow (derogatory) |
| Cop; Copper | policeman |
| Cop it sweet | to take what's coming to you without trying to get back at them |
| Corroboree | aboriginal festival dance |
| Cossie | swimming costume |
| Cot case | bed-ridden person; nut case; crazy person |
| Couch potato | person who watches too much tv |
| Couldn't organise arseholes in a shit factory | Very disorganised submitted by Dottle |
| Couldn't get a kick in a stampede | said of poorly performing football player |
| Couldn't knock the skin off a rice pudding | physically weak; ineffectual |
| Couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery | incompetent; stupid |
| Couldn't run a chook raffle in a country pub | incompetent; stupid |
| Couldn't tell his ass from a hole in the ground | stupid; confused |
| Cow-tow | bow and scrape to someone |
| Cozzie | swimming costume |
| Crack a fat | to get an erection submitted by freezie and sinfi |
| Crack a tinnie | open a cold can of beer |
| Crack onto | to make a pass at; chat up |
| Cranky | bad- or short-tempered |
| Crap | bullshit eg. thats a load of crap |
| Crapper | toilet |
| Crash hot | first-rate |
| Crawler | sycophant |
| Creamed | won by a long way eg. we creamed the other team; or to cum eg. he creamed himself |
| Crikey! | surprised at something |
| Cripes! | exclamation |
| Croak | to die |
| Crockery | teeth; dinner set |
| Crook | ill; criminal |
| things are Crook in Muswellbrook | things are going badly |
| Croweater | someone who lives in South Australia |
| Cruddy | something of low quality |
| Crumpet | gorgeous female |
| Cunning as a shithouse rat | as sly as a fox - very cunning |
| Cuppa | cup of tea or coffee |
| Curly | nickname for a bald person |
| give someone a bit of Curry | to give them a hard time on an issue |
| Cushy | to have it easy eg. cushy job |
| mad as a Cut snake | extremely angry |
| Cut lunch and a six pack | sandwiches and six beers |
| need to take a six pack and Cut lunch | long trip |
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