Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US gay) one who licks or is licked by a sexual partner.

1989–2003

R.O. Scott Gay Sl. Dict. 🌐 Australian active: likes to be the partner who licks in Australian sex. Australian passive: likes to be the partner who is licked in Australian sex.

a shirt tail, protruding between the trousers and waistcoat.

1889-90		D. Sladen in Barrère & Leland Sl., Jargon and Cant I 53/1: Australian flag, the [...] the bottom of a shirt. The Australian who lives up the country generally wears a belt instead of braces, the result being that when he exerts himself, there is usually a great fold of shirt protruding between his small clothes and his waistcoat, which Englishmen have called in scorn the Australian flag.
1892		W.S. Walsh Handy-book of Literary Curiosities 71: Australian flag. This is humorously said to be a shirt-tail, — an allusion to the fact that Australian farmers and ranchers usually wear belts instead of braces, with the inevitable result that a great fold of shirt protrudes.
1898		E.E. Morris Austral Eng. 11/2: Australian flag, n. Hot climate and country work have brought in a fashion among bushmen of wearing a belt or leather strap round the top of trousers instead of braces. This often causes a fold in the shirt protruding all round from under the waistcoat, which is playfully known as ‘the Australian Flag.’.
1900–10		Stephens & O’Brien Materials for a Dict. of Aus. Sl. [unpub. ms.] 4: AUSTRALIAN FLAG: slang Not only bushmen, as asserted by Morris, wear belts and show the Australian flag. Belt wearing is customary with most outdoor manual labourers in Australia in town and country both, and the bunt of shirt is worked out by stooping.
1948		R. Raven-Hart Canoe in Aus. 187: ‘Australian flag’ is a shirt-tail sticking out.
1994		H. Jonsen Hippocrene Lang. 221: An unkempt little digger may add an Australian flag to his uniform. Some say it's the official dresswear of Oz. It means the little guy’s shirttail is hanging out the back of his pants and waving about like a flag!

a firm handshake.

1889-90		D. Sladen in Barrère & Leland Sl., Jargon and Cant I 53/2: Australian grip (up country Australian), a hearty shake of the hand [...] The bushman [...] is sarcastic about the ‘limp shakes’ and ‘one-finger shakes’ of people ‘newly out from home’.
1894		Nat. Advocate (Bathurst) 19 Jan. 2/6: Anyone who knew what a Yorkshire grip [...] e was, would not forget it; but he knew that when [...] he returned to these shores, the Australian grip [...] would be quite as hearty.
1913		Dly Herald (Adelaide) 17 Sept. 4/2: [W]ith [a] hearty Australian grip of the hand bid welcome to the distinguished representatives from the mother of British Parliaments.
1918		Teleg. (Brisbane) 25 May 8/5: [The] ‘Australian grip’ [...] stands for the best of greetings, the honest, hearty handshake.

(N.Z.) a blatant attempt to avoid paying one’s way, by ostentatiously patting the pockets and claiming to have lost one’s wallet.

2003

McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 13: Australian haka A transparent attempt to avoid paying your way, developed in a television ad in which a group of drinkers inform one another that it’s his turn to shout. he pats his pockets vigorously and then whines, ‘Where’s me flamin’ wallet?’ 1990s.

(Aus.) brushing away flies from one’s face, a characteristic Aus. gesture.

1954		E. Abbey Slumgullion Stew 180: Outbackers joke about the Australian salute: the right hand brushed repeatedly across the face. [...] These outback flies are persistent.
1967		Parlty Debates (Aus.) 55 1602/2: Anybody who watches on television the arrival at Canberra Airport in summer months of an important personage from overseas will see him or her giving the great Australian salute — waving the flies away from the face.
1972		I. Moffitt U-Jack Society 65: I flopped a hand at the flies (the Australian salute).
1976		Australian 9 Mar. 3: A sexually-mutated blowfly developed by CSIRO scientists in Canberra could lead to the demise of the great Australian salute [GAW4].
1986		B. Djurdjevic ‘An Australian Travel Diary’ Dec. 🌐 ‘Haven’t you heard? That’s “the great Australian salute”,’ he said, repeating the motion as if swatting flies off of his face.
1991		Torres News (Thursday Is., Qld) 18 Jan. 1/2: The Great Australian Salute. This amusing film deals with the great Aussie battler’s most annoying pest, the fly.
1999		Seattle Post-Intelligencer 21 Oct. n.p.: On the platform we brush away flies with a steady waving gesture that locals call ‘the Australian salute.’.
2000–02		Macquarie Dict. 🌐 Australian salute noun the movement of the hand and arm to brush away flies from one’s face. Also, Barcoo salute.
2002		AusImports 🌐 Flies are ubiquitous to Australia, especially in the country, so much so that a swish with your right hand across the face to ward off the little buzzards is often referred to as ‘the great Australian Salute.’.

(Aus.) either of individual or object, quintessentially (stereotyped) Australian.

1972		Sun. Australian cited in Skandera Phraseology & Culture (2008) 236: A few Australian examples are variations on North American themes, most obviously as Australian as a meat pie (Sunday Australian, April 1972) which provided a counterpoint to as American as apple pie.
1981		Chron. Hist. Aus. Lit. 420: Prosaic colloquial words and more obviously poetic and elevated words jostle each other in a single poem, and if in some poems he uses a dramatic voice which is as Australian as a meat pie.
1996		J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 283: [M]y benefactor-mentor was as dinkum Oz as a Sargents pie with rich red Fountain sauce.