What does 'Mate' mean in Australia?
Australian slang 'Mate' meaning?
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term of friendship
buddy, friend
Friend/Buddy
Word describing a friend, recognisably Australian though also used in Britain and New Zealand. In Australia, the term is most commonly used between men, when they cannot remember each other’s names.
Slang word most often used by Britain, New Zealand and Australia. American teenagers use it because they just follow other countries, thinking it makes them Indie or something. Nubs.
1) Australian slang greeting between friends that is actually used quite often, although stereotype rejecting Australians claim we don’t 2) A person you are very close to, whom they trust above all others. A person may only have one mate
An Australian slang of greeting friends is used through a stereotype from rejecting the claim also telling each other what happened or what people said to them.
It was always a Naval term to me.
Ship Mates Ya know.