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Balt noun an immigrant of Eastern European extraction; any European immigrant to Australia during the immediate post-World War 2 period AUSTRALIA, 1963 Derogatory; common in the 1940–50s when it was often applied indiscriminately to any European migrant.- [T]here’s quite a few wogs, dagos, yids, refugees, spades, Balts, boongs, Huns, Abos and other foreigners amongst the lily white, Anglo-Saxon dinkum Australians who have foregathered for the only ritual practised in Foolgarah[.] — Frank Hardy, The Outcasts of Foolgarah, p. 46, 1971
- The Australian mentality of superiority that caused all displaced persons to be labelled “bloody Balts” and produced euphemisms such as “new Australians”, is hopefully now anachronistic. — Bruce Ford, The Elderly Australian, p. 67, 1984
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