Bogan

Bogan (pronounced BOE-gun) is a derogatory New Zealand and Australian slang term for somebody who is perceived as being an unfashionable "lower-class" person, typically of British Isles ancestry and living in deprived urban areas. Equivalent terms are:

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• ' in Hobart.
• (sometimes interchangeable with) Booner in Canberra.
• Westie in Sydney, Australia and Waitakere (Auckland), New Zealand referring to Western Suburbs.
• Boy-racers in the lower North Island of New Zealand
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Lower-class: redirect working class...