Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. trademark, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa A breakfast cereal sold in Australia and New Zealand, consisting of biscuits of compressed wholegrain flakes.
Etymologies
- Deliberate alteration of wheat + biscuit. A trademark owned by Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing Company; Australian from 1920s. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A day after declaring the tax would force up the price of Weet-Bix, Mr Abbott said higher transport and energy costs would take fish off the table for many families.”
“Visiting Weet-Bix producer Sanitarium on NSW's Central Coast, Mr Abbott said the "price of everything", including breakfast cereal, would go up under the government's carbon tax.”
“Tony Abbott a cereal offender for claiming Weet-Bix will rise in price under carbon tax: PM JULIA Gillard has accused Tony Abbott of taking his campaign against the carbon tax to ridiculous extremes as she depicted him as out-of-step with international conservatives on the need to price carbon.”
“He's there trying to pretend to Australians that pricing carbon means an end to Weet-Bix.”
“Hon Annette King: What is his understanding of the current price of 2 litres of standard milk, a 1 kilogram packet of Weet-Bix, and a loaf of white toast bread, and how much cold hard cash will struggling families have to pay after these basic items are increased in price after a rise in GST on 1 October?”
“Books, magazines, comics, newspapers, model aeroplane instructions, the back of the Weet-Bix packet ... whatever, it doesn't matter.”
“Once combined, add in Weet-Bix and continue to beat until they are broken.”
“Venues will include ovals at Drummoyne, Kogarah, Bankstown, Blacktown, North Sydney and Manly and franchises will be offered to major companies like Sanitarium Weet-Bix, Pepsi, the Commonwealth Bank, McDonald's, KFC and Coca-Cola.”
“Nathan Hauritz will miss the first one-day game of the series to allow him to be available for selection for the Weet-Bix Sheffield Shield match at the Gabba starting on the 31st”
“After a successful New Plymouth event attended by over 1,400 local kids, the 2009 Weet-Bix Tryathlon series has successfully broken the record for being the largest children's sporting event in the world, as verified by the International Triathlon ...”
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