'BrisVegas' meaning

5 definitions

1. Tommo

   Brisbane, state capital of Queensland
2. Shaz

   Nickname for Brisbane, Queensland
3. Sharon

   In the early 90s, Brisbane was just starting to wake up from being a sleepy big country town. The alternative scene of musos and general party animals still saw the town as the aforementioned sleepy big country town where restaurants shut early and pubs closed at midnight. To take the mickey they started to nickname their town ‘BrisVegas’ because it was nothing like the 24 hour American party city. The nickname stuck, and as Brisbane emerged as a modern city sometimes the origins of this nickname as mistaken and taken to mean that Brisbane was likened to Las Vegas – when it was the opposite.

   • Example: Regurgitator, that quaintly strange BrisVegas band, took the nation by storm with their mix of electronica and rock.
4. Em

   a term used to describe brisbane by other countries. however, no person who lives in brisbane (aka ‘brisbanite’) actually calls it that, nor do they know that it is even called ‘brisvegas’.

   • Example: American: aww man, can't wait to go to BRISVEGAS!!!!11!!1 Brisbanite: wtf is 'brisvegas', that the most stupid thing I've ever heard. Go f*** yourself, stupid idiot. *walks away*
5. blerghblergh

   BrisVegas: refers the the sticky floors, the ‘seen better days’ decor, the overweight ‘bottle-blondes’ the overly tanned white folks with big gold jewelry, the wanna-be’s mingling with the nouveau-riche, the tacky architecture. The previous definitions are completely wrong. A perfect well-to-do BrisVegan example is Kerry-Anne Kennerly. Big, bold-as-brass, fun, but not sophisticated.

   • Example: I was thinking about visiting there, but isn't it a bit too BrisVegas?