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"A boorish or uncultivated Australian."
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"(slang, Australia) A boorish or uncultivated Australian."
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"etymology_text": "From Ocker, pet form of the name Oscar; popularised in a series of television sketches where the word was used as a general nickname.",
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{
"ref": "1973, Leslie Rees, A History of Australian Drama: Australian drama in the 1970s, Sydney: Angus & Robertson:",
"text": "page 44: What a contrast was Jack Hibberd's next exercise—from highbrow obscurantism to a show that was to spray the audiences of a score of theatres with the ockerest of ocker humour and set them going off to tell their friends. It was a play destined to set Jack Hibberd on the road to legendary popularity and financial wealth (in playwright terms, anyway).",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1984, Sandra Jobson, Blokes, page 11:",
"text": "I sidled up to a particularly Ocker character on the edge of a group and nervously explained my mission.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1992Will Self, Cock and Bull, (Please provide the book title or journal name):",
"text": "‘Non-erotic male bonding, that’s the thing isn’t it; what our ocker cousins call “mateyness”.’",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, page 182:",
"text": "Dave comes across like an ocker Australian.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Phillip William Hughes, Opening Doors to the Future: Stories of Prominent Australians and the Influence of Teachers, page 133:",
"text": "In addition to these specialist skills he showed his individuality at school where he preferred karate to rugby and when his more ocker classmates went to celebrate in pubs he went with a friend to Chinese restaurants.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Robert Crawford, But Wait, There's More!: A History of Australian Advertising, 1900-2000, page 179:",
"text": "Singo′s subsequent campaigns became more creative, developing a louder, brasher, and decidedly more ocker image in the process.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2008, David P. Reiter, Primary Instinct, page 93:",
"text": "His name is Bob Snapes, and you don′t get any more ocker than him.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011 January 25, Emily Portell, Herald Sun, Melbourne:",
"text": "Melbourne surf shop Mordy Surf triggered outrage after posting the YouTube clip, in which an ocker man says he is \"gonna get a glass and smash it on some poof\", on its website.",
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"Uncultivated; boorish."
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