Definitions

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  • noun Australia A cold bottle or can of beer.

Etymologies

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From cold +‎ -ie (“diminutive suffix”), for "cold one". Compare tinnie.

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Examples

  • I would, however, hardly advise any human "coldie" to try such heroic treatment offhand, for the pungency and painfulness of formalin vapor is something ferocious, though the

    Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896

  • So sit back, pop a cold-coldie or a Caucasion, or whatever your beverage of preference may be, and prepare to have your mind blown in the most elegant and only occasionally sexual of ways ...

    [title under construction] 2008

  • So sit back, pop a cold-coldie or a Caucasion, or whatever your beverage of preference may be, and prepare to have your mind blown in the most elegant and only occasionally sexual of ways ...

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • Buy a couple of kilos, invite a few mates around, crack open a robust red or simply a coldie and it's an instant party.

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

  • Buy a couple of kilos, invite a few mates around, crack open a robust red or simply a coldie and it's an instant party.

    At My Table 2008

  • If anyone's going to the kitchen, I could use another coldie.

    The stupid factory. CC 2008

  • An actor fetched a coldie from the esky and tossed it toward Steve.

    Steve and Me Terri Irwin 2007

  • They want a bloke to toss a coldie to another bloke, but a croc comes out of the water and snatches at it.

    Steve and Me Terri Irwin 2007

  • An actor fetched a coldie from the esky and tossed it toward Steve.

    Steve and Me Terri Irwin 2007

  • They want a bloke to toss a coldie to another bloke, but a croc comes out of the water and snatches at it.

    Steve and Me Terri Irwin 2007

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