Aussie Slang

So I figured coming to an English speaking country would ensure that my ability to communicate would be perfectly fine. However, there is much more slang and different terms here than I figured! Here's a few popular ones: 

Aggro = someone who is aggravated

Arvo = Afternoon

Balls up = made a mistake (haha)

Barbie = Bbq

Barney = fight

Bluey = a redhead

Brekkie = breakfast

Cool bananas = it's all good

Crikey = unbelievable

Dunny = toilet

Goon = extremely cheap boxed wine

Jam = Jelly

Jelly = Jello (when I told my roommate I was making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich she was disgusted. It took us a while to distinguish between the two!)

Reginalds = underwear

Rock melon = cantaloupe

Sandgropers = people from Western Australia

Sangers = sandwiches

Sheila = single lady

Tomato sauce = ketchup

Tinny = can of beer

Aside from all the crazy slang they also abbreviate EVERYTHING. Australians will often tell you they are a very lazy group of people and the common abbreviations of simple words goes to show it. Basically, anything with more than 2 syllables is too long. So that really puts me in a tough position. Telling people my name is Caroline is like saying supercalifradgalisticexpialidocious. So, many people have told me that my nickname is now Caz. Maybe it will grow on me? 

But yes, many abbreviations. We were driving to the beach and I saw signs for "Strawbs at the Servo" (Strawberries for sale at the service exit). My goal is to bring some of this slang back to the US!