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carn!
come on! AUSTRALIA, 1965
A call of encouragement especially common amongst sports spectators. Eye-dialect rendering of typical Australian pronunciation. Commonly preceding the name of a team beginning with “the,” e.g. “carn the Blues” (come on the Blues).- “Carn the magpies,” one kid yelled. — Kerry Cue, Crooks, Chooks and Bloody Ratbags, p. 52, 1983
- Not that they were a bad team. They were just poor, that’s all. They just couldn’t seem to be able to afford to win. Anyway, Carn the mighty Roys! — Barry Dickins, What the Dickins, p. 99, 1985
- — Ivor Limb, Footy’s No Joke!, p. 15, 1986
- Carn! he’s yelling, Carn, let’s go! — Tim Winton, Cloudstreet, p. 107, 1991
- — David McGill, David McGill’s Complete Kiwi Slang Dictionary, p. 25, 1998
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