Kiwi adj.
pertaining to New Zealand or New Zealand culture.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | ‘Thanks For The Memory’ in Kiss Me Goodnight, Sgt.-Major (1973) 72: In the Kiwi bar we’ve wetted. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Good Keen Man 58: I suspect she was a real Kiwi mum, with a soft spot for her little Harry. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Any Old Dollars, Mister? 33: Yairsuh, I’ze a silly ol’ Kee-wee kid. | |
| Half-gallon Quarter-acre Pavlova Paradise 109: The party is the great Kiwi contribution to social betterment. | |
| (con. 1930s) Loner 35: Was real proud to be a Kiwi soldier in the war I was. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Complete Barry McKenzie ix: He invited me to meet a Kiwi artist called Nicholas Garland. | |
| Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] [H]e saw Les slip the kiwi waitress a rock lobster. | |
| Reach 37: I picked up a Kiwi undergraduate named Ally in the John’s bar. | |
| Guardian Travel 5 Feb. 3: What a corker – maturing of the Kiwi grape. | |
| N.Z. Herald 31 Jan. 🌐 A Kiwi spin on a Chinese staple. |
In compounds
a name for the excl. ‘2, 4, 6, 8, bog in, don’t wait!’; i.e. an allusion to the New Zealander’s enthusiasm/greediness for food.
| Kiwi-Yankee Dict. |
(N.Z. drugs) locally grown marijuana.
 | on NORML.org 3 Apr. 🌐 Three articles in this week’s influential National Business Review confirm that things are really heating up on the cannabis front. Kiwi green becomes big business. | |
| Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. |
(N.Z.) a ‘short-back-and-sides’ haircut.
| ‘Down the Hall on a Saturday Night’ 🎵 I got me a new brown sports-coat, / I got me a new pair of grey strides, / I got me a real Kiwi haircut, / A bit off the top, an’ short back and sides. | |
| 33 n.p.: He’s wearing his ‘kiwi’ haircut, jeans, the wool poncho of a Chilean huazo, and rubber boots covered in mud. |