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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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| Jacko, Johnno, Johnny | Turkish soldier |
| Jam Tin | Improvised grenades made by ANZAC soldiers because of a lack of equipment suited to trench warfare. The inner can was made from the empty jam tins or bully beef tins filled with explosives. The outer can contained metal fragments or ball bearings. They were also used as booby traps. |
| Kangaroo Feathers | Emu plumes on a Light Horseman’s hat. Kangaroo feathers was a joke told by Aussies to English troops who wanted to know what they were. |
| Kiwi | New Zealander |
| Knock | Wound |
| Lance Corporal Bacon | Bacon with a lot of fat but only one streak of lean meat. Corporals only have one stripe on their uniform, hence the bacon slang |
| Linseed Lancers | Australian Field Ambulence men |
| Liz, Lizzie | Battleship Queen Elisabeth |
| Penninsh | Gallipoli Peninsula |
| Pill | Bullet |
| Red Caps | British military police |
| Rock-chewer | Dry biscuit often responsible for broken teeth when eaten. |
| Sick Parade | Men feeling unwell attended the parade to the medical officer’s tent |
| S.R.D. | Seldom Reaches Destination or Supply Reserve Depot |
| Stiffs’ Paddock | Graveyard |
| Stoush, Stouch | Fight, kill or use violence |
| Swing the Banjo | Shovel dirt. |
| Taube | German reconaissance airplane also capable of dropping bombs |
| Throw a Seven | To get killed |
| Typewriter | Machine-gun |
| Turkey Trot | Diarrhoea |
| Whizz-bang | German 77mm shell |
| Wind-up | Scared |
| Winze | Underground connection between two trenches |
| Woodbine | English soldier from a common English cigarette brand name |
| Would-to-Godder | Civilian who “would to God” he could go off to the war. |
