Tennant Creek noun a Greek person AUSTRALIA Rhyming slang, from the name of a goldmining town in the Northern Territory.
— Jim Ramsay, CopItSweet!, p. 89, 1977
There’s a Tennant Creek behind the wheel of most Australian taxi-cabs and they’ve got a licence to print money. — Barry Humphries, The Traveller’sTool, p. 38, 1985