Definitions
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- noun Australia, humorous An inhabitant of
Western Australia . - noun Any species of the
family Cylindrachetidae ofsubterranean insects, found in Australia, New Guinea and Argentina.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Dr Yobbo, should have stayed with Triple M! over here in sandgroper land we had 96 ‘top aussie’ songs.
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Mr Jones is a sandgroper through and through, and has dedicated many years to getting WA's fair share of grants and pushing for galleries to procure WA works on a number of different boards.
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Mr Jones is a sandgroper through and through, and has dedicated many years to getting WA's fair share of grants and pushing for galleries to procure WA works on a number of different boards.
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It would be rather better if the savage sandgroper could say why he thought the idea itself wasn't a goer, rather than persecuting its promoter.
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By virty, November 20, 2009 @ 10:22 pm if your into surfin’ necronauts and drugged out hippies, tim wintons “breath” is a fair read even for a fkn sandgroper. he’s even discovered my top secret breaks outta margaret river and those killer lefts on the eyre peninsular. hasn’t done the rock/coral shelf rights and lefts off of the old albany whaling station salmon holes tho’.
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bilby commented on the word sandgroper
Australian slang - a person from Western Australia.
December 6, 2007
kewpid commented on the word sandgroper
Also refers to this interesting looking insect.
December 6, 2007
bilby commented on the word sandgroper
As I said ...
December 6, 2007