bevan, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

bevan n.

[‘I attended St Joseph’s College, Gregory Terrace in Brisbane, and I suspect I was around during the Birth of the expression ‘Bevan.’ At the time (late 70’s) there was rumoured to be a Brisbane Boys Grammer individual named Bevan who, on weekends prefered to wear ‘The Flanno’ and Ug Boots, drive around in a Holden Sandman, and listen to Heavy Metal, while your average upper middle class youth, prefered wearing Penguin shirts and Amco tabs the trendy attire of the era. It’s a great story and who knows? It may just be true’ Aus. Word Map 2003]

(20) Queensland-specific equvalent of bogan n. (1); also adj.

1988		Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 6 July 21/3: Bevans and bogans. This group is characterised by their common dress [...] tight T-shirts relating to the brand of car they drive or detest, old blue jeans, ugh [sic] boots (replaced by thongs in the summer) and the obligatory pack of cigarettes shoved up one T-shirt sleaeeve. Females also wear tight jeans, high-heeled shoes and skimpy caamisole tops.
1993		Google Groups: soc.culture.australian 16 July 🌐 Up in Ballarat, Central Vic, we also call people who hoon around in old cars Bogans (plus they wear fluffy slippers). I do know that in some parts of QLD they call them Bevans.
2004		J. Lambert Macquarie Dict. Sl. 15/1: bevan, the Queensland term for a flannie-clad, mullet,sporting, unrefined, ill-educated yobbo. […] Apparently from the name Bevan, seen as typical of this type, though of course women can be bevans too.
2017		T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 20: Our eyes meet. I give him the thumbs-up: bevan Bonnie to criminal Clyde. (‘Bevan’ is the Queensland version of ‘bogan’.

In compounds

bevan chick (n.) (also bev chick)

(Aus.) the female equivalent of sense 1.

2003		Aus. Word Map 🌐 bev-chick The girlfriend or a young woman who hangs out with a bevan: She is such a bev-chick.
2017		T. Spicer Good Girl Stripped Bare 37: I want to be a slight, dark-haired woman of Eastern European ancestry, because it’s so much more sophisticated than being the bevan chick from Redcliffe.