If something is "cactus", it is broken, doesn't work any more, or another great Australian idiom - "buggered".
Practical application = "Bugger! The motor threw a rod. It's cactus."
If someone says in Australian slang; " you are cactus mate...." the reference is that you are in a load of trouble, or that your immediate future looks grim. One could say that this is a very lateral thought but the slang concept is based on the fact that Cactus live in the desert, get no water and have a pretty tough existence.
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The term yobbo is Australian slang for an uncultivated person.
The Australian slang term for girls or women is sheila.
"G'day" IS Australian slang - it's short for "Good Day."
"Aussie" is short for "Australian" "Bird" is Australian slang for a girl Thus, an Aussie bird is slang for an Australian girl
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In Australian slang, women are referred to as "sheilas". The term is not usually applied to girls, but to grown women.
G'dayThere is no specific Australian slang word for 'welcome'. G'day is a greeting, but does not mean 'welcome'.
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''Dill'' means ''idiot'' as australian slang.
Prickly Pear Cactus (native South American), was brought to Australia in 1788 on the First Fleet. It became a pest, quickly overrunning many thousand acres of farmland. To combat it, the caterpillar/moth Cactoblastis (also South American native), was introduced in the 1920s. Wildly successful, it practically eliminated the spiny exotic in a few years. defeated. Hence, CACTUS, in Australian slang, means: beaten, finished, ruined, kaput etc. e.g. Jim threw just two punches, and Jack was cactus.