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rort
noun- a confidence trick; an illicit scheme or dodge; a swindle AUSTRALIA, 1926
Also used of legitimate practices imputing that they are unfair or a rip-off. - I was surprised to learn that the first Gallup Polls on the ID Card rort showed about 73 per cent of Australians favoured it. — Frank Hardy, Hardy’s People, p. 119, 1986
- This explained his muscle bound “friends” dropping round at midnight to drink Fourex and swap tales of rorts and rampages. — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 178, 1987
- Their stoney faces had told the crowd that they had had no part in the rort. — Clive Galea, Slipper, p. 190, 1988
- a wild party; an unrestrained good time; a drunken orgy AUSTRALIA
- There’ll be plenty to drink, and plenty to eat later. Don’t any of youse put on a blue or make a rort out of my house. — Tilly Devine, Remember Smith’s Weekly?, p. 217, 1950
- “I hope there’s something left over,” Windy said anxiously. “I feel like a bit of a rort.” — J.E. MacDonnell, Don’t Gimme the Ships, p. 27, 1960
- Yeah, it sounds like a real rort. — Alexander Buzo, Norm and Ahmed, p. 14, 1969
- You belong here as much as anyone else and they’ve accepted you, invited you into a real rort. — Kevin Mackey, The Cure, p. 26, 1970
- in horse or greyhound racing, a large and unexpected bet AUSTRALIA
- — Ned Wallish, The Truth Dictionary of Racing Slang, p. 69, 1989
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