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Anzac Slang is the colloquial language of Australians and New Zealanders, including words and phrases that are unique to their culture.
The Anzacs created many unique slang terms and expressions while living and fighting in the Gallipoli trenches. The following are just an examples of the more common ones.
We have excluded the more interesting and colourful of the military slang because we’re a family-friendly website visited by children all over the world. We hope you understand and enjoy the slang we do share with you here.
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| Abdul | Nickname for a Turkish soldier |
| An Auntie | Turkish broomstick bomb. Propelled by a mortar, the bomb was a 4-inch cartridge case filled with explosives, nails and other metal schrapnel. |
| Anzac Soup | Shell-hold polluted by a corpse |
| Anzac Stew | Container of hot water and one bacon rind |
| Axel Grease | Butter |
| Babbling Brook | Army cook |
| Bags Of | A lot, great amount, big number of something |
| Banjo | Trenching shovel. |
| Base Wallah | Person far behind the front line in a relatively safe job |
| Beachy Bill | Turkish guns that shelled the beach at Anzac |
| Beetle | Landing craft holding 200 soldiers |
| Bergoo | Porridge |
| Body-snatcher | Solder in a raiding party sent to capture Turkish prisoners |
| Brass Hats | Senior officer |
| Bully | Salted tinned beef |
| Camel Dung | Egyptian cigarettes |
| Chat-bags | Underwear |
| Clobber | Clothes |
| Clout | Wound |
| Cobber | Mate, friend |
| Cricket Ball | Turkish hand grenade the size of a cricket ball, but with a burning fuse. It was sometimes possible to catch and throw it back. |
| Curio, Souvy | Battlefield souvenir often taken from dead enemies. |
| Digger | Anzac soldiers |
| Fantass | Tank of water carried by mules or camels. |
| Gallipoli Gallop | Diarrhoea |
| Greybacks | Lice |
| Gutzer | Misfortune, piece of bad luck |
