Usually means: Australian stereotype, often unsophisticated, rowdy.
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  1. bogan: Merriam-Webster
  2. bogan, bogan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bogan: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Bogan, bogan: Wordnik
  5. Bogan, bogan: Wiktionary
  6. bogan: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Bogan: Dictionary.com
  8. Bogan (disambiguation), Bogan (film), Bogan (surname), Bogan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Bogan: Rhymezone
  10. bogan: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  11. Bogan: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bogan (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. bogan: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory stereotype) An unsophisticated person from a working class background.
noun:  (New Zealand, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Anglo-Celtic member of a lower socioeconomic group, stereotypically classified as wearing black jumpers or black concert T-shirts.
noun:  (New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A petrolhead.
verb:  (rare, derogatory) To act like a bogan.
noun:  (Canada, Maine) Any narrow water or creek, particularly a tranquil backwater.
noun:  (Canada, North Western Ontario, slang, derogatory, offensive) An indigenous person.
noun:  A river of central to northern New South Wales, Australia, a tributary to the Darling.
noun:  A surname from Irish.

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