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- noun Australia An
insulated picniccooler , usingrefrigerated blocks to keep food cool.
Etymologies
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Examples
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A man sits on a park bench with an "esky", an Australian chilled picnic box.
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A man sits on a park bench with an "esky", an Australian chilled picnic box.
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A young couple pack the boot of their car from their third floor balcony, throwing everything from a ball and frisbee through to the iconic Australian 'esky' (plastic ice box).
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A young couple pack the boot of their car from their third floor balcony, throwing everything from a ball and frisbee through to the iconic Australian 'esky' (plastic ice box).
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By Havock, December 9, 2009 @ 7: 23 am oh Fuck!, we nearly screwed up big fkn time, each vehicle gets a fkn big arse esky as well!.
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- Try to ‘install’ everything below half the height of the esky.
Make A Beach Stereo Out Of A Cooler | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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I love my short bread straight from the fridge as petticoat triangles (and the bargain hunter in me loves buying it for half-price in the sales post Christmas) – I discovered this the year we camped over Christmas at the beach and my short bread ended up in the esky and made the perfect hang over food on Christmas Morning.
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Try to ‘install’ everything below half the height of the esky.
Make A Beach Stereo Out Of A Cooler | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Hotel worker Gabriel Winner - who requested the name of the hotel not be used - says the agitated guest brought the esky to reception early yesterday morning.
Boing Boing 2008
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She does have a UHF and DOES have a hands free car phone and ki and she does has a STATE of the art CD/MP3, cd cdr fkn fkn cd player radio thingamajig as well and she DOES have satellite navigations too…AND, its dual fkn fuel to keep try huggers happy, my wallet thicker so MORE piss can be bought and stashed in the esky in the back of the beast.
frindley commented on the word esky
An Aussie cooler box. Invented by Malley's and now made by Nylex, but, as with the bandaid, the name has been adopted for coolers generally.
There is a wiki page and Questacon includes it in a discussion of those other great Australian inventions: wine casks, stay-sharp knives, vegemite and lamingtons.
September 14, 2008
plethora commented on the word esky
What about the hills hoist?
September 14, 2008
bilby commented on the word esky
A blight on the planet, let alone Australia.
September 15, 2008
frindley commented on the word esky
The esky, bilby? Or the hills hoist?
December 5, 2008
bilby commented on the word esky
Noooo! Not the esky!
December 5, 2008
frindley commented on the word esky
So how do you dry your clothes? Personally, I love my hills hoist. And I didn't realise just how much until I lived in America for three years: not once was I able to hang my sheets out in the sunshine.
December 7, 2008
bilby commented on the word esky
Conversely, four years living in Europe imbued me with the joy of doing things incrementally in smaller spaces, and a sense of horror at the profound wastefulness and social isolation of suburban living. In the Australian context the hills hoist one of these horrible backyard memes. I don't deny they might be effective in airing sheets, but rather take issue with their environmental and social cost.
December 7, 2008