Australians seem to have very colourful flair when it comes to choosing nicknames for people and objects.
Tinnies for canned beer and Bottle-o for what we would call off-licenses. Tradies is rather nice gender-neutral slang for tradesmen.
My personal favourite is Bin Chickens. These are the beautiful white Ibis which have an unfortunate habit of grubbing around in garbage containers in urban Oz and so causing the ire of locals.
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