Definitions
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- noun Australia, New Zealand A
small beer bottle with a distinctive squat shape; astubby .
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Examples
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For those how don't know what a'stubbie 'is, it is simply a small bottle of something.
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For those how don't know what a'stubbie 'is, it is simply a small bottle of something.
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Me on the grog... sipping a cold VB stubbie (or two), enjoying a kebab and a sinful timtam, and the newest issue of Australian Vogue (not Women's Weekly!)... basking under that bright Ozzie sun in the middle of the arvo, in me bathers.
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If men menstruated instead of floral dresses, volleyball and ponies there would just be some cranky old bloke, dressed in nothing but a blue singlet, stubbie shorts and thongs, and as a bead of hard earned sweat dribbled down his forehead he would stare down the barrel of the camera, spit and say: "G'day ya period, you can get it milkin 'a cow, matter of fact I got it now!"
sierrazen Diary Entry sierrazen 2005
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The scattered trees turned into forests, with clearings, first for grazing, and then for fields, though they were but turned stubbie in the winter drizzle.
The Death of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1995
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They mirrored the conventional blueprint for Australia Day events, which have long been sketches in fun and family in suburban parks and back yards, where kids squawk and flies buzz, where thongs are compulsory but the stubbie holder is optional.
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"There has been a bit of talk about people going to their local pub, buying a stubbie over the counter and having twenty cents more for it," Mr Clements said.
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I believe he's under doctors orders to rest with a schooner/stubbie or two - still watching the cricket of course - but never fear, he'll be back at the crease tomorrow.
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A TEENAGE music fan who responded to being stomped on while at the bottom of a Brisbane nightclub mosh pit by punching another dancer in the head while holding a glass stubbie has today been jailed for 18-months.
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A TEENAGE music fan who responded to being stomped on while at the bottom of a Brisbane nightclub mosh pit by punching another dancer in the head while holding a glass stubbie has today been jailed for 18-months.
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