"possie" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1990, Matthew Kentridge, An unofficial war: inside the conflict in Pietermaritzburg",
          "text": "I'm just sitting in my possie, my place, waiting for something to happen.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Matthew Wright, Western front: the New Zealand Division in the first World War, 1916-18",
          "text": "'There is a beautiful odour in the possie where we are,' HG Clark wrote to his family...",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Wesley Olson, Gallipoli: the Western Australian story",
          "text": "Away from the firing line, these possies and dugouts could be made larger...",
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        "A firing position."
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        "(Australia, New Zealand, military slang, Digger slang) A firing position."
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          "text": "1984, Garrie Hutchinson, A Practice Game at the Old Home Ground, from From the Outer, reprinted 2001, David Headon (editor), The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: A 200 Year Collection, page 289,\nThe fans seem happy to be back, finding their formerly favourite possies in the stands, or around the strangely sunken perimeter fence."
        },
        {
          "text": "1998, Business Review Weekly, Volume 20, Issues 47-49, page 102,\nOf course, it helps if you are very rich and regularly pay more than $40,000 for a couture outfit to be guaranteed of a near-front-row possie at the bi-annual parades (winter and summer collections)."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Andrew Bain, Ethan Gelber, Cycling Australia, Lonely Planet, page 346",
          "text": "It′s in a good people-watching possie and if you have an early dinner between 3pm and 7pm you get a 40% discount.",
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        "A position or place, especially one that is advantageous."
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          "place"
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          "advantageous",
          "advantageous"
        ]
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        "(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A position or place, especially one that is advantageous."
      ],
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "pozzy"
    }
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        },
        {
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          "text": "'There is a beautiful odour in the possie where we are,' HG Clark wrote to his family...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Wesley Olson, Gallipoli: the Western Australian story",
          "text": "Away from the firing line, these possies and dugouts could be made larger...",
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        "A firing position."
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        "(Australia, New Zealand, military slang, Digger slang) A firing position."
      ],
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        },
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          "text": "1998, Business Review Weekly, Volume 20, Issues 47-49, page 102,\nOf course, it helps if you are very rich and regularly pay more than $40,000 for a couture outfit to be guaranteed of a near-front-row possie at the bi-annual parades (winter and summer collections)."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Andrew Bain, Ethan Gelber, Cycling Australia, Lonely Planet, page 346",
          "text": "It′s in a good people-watching possie and if you have an early dinner between 3pm and 7pm you get a 40% discount.",
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        }
      ],
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        "A position or place, especially one that is advantageous."
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        "(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A position or place, especially one that is advantageous."
      ],
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    {
      "word": "pozzy"
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