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▪ I. rort, n. Austral. slang.|rɔːt|
[Back-formation f. rorty a.]
1. A trick, a ‘dodge’; a fraud or dishonest practice. Now freq. with qualifying word.
1936J. Devanny Sugar Heaven 20 The cockies are supposed to pay this retention money into the bank..but normally they don't pay it in... It's the greatest rort ever. 1958Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 24 Aug. 4/4 ‘If they don't it will be a rort.’ ‘But why should it be a rort?’ asks the man. 1973Nation Rev. (Melbourne) 31 Aug. 1441/3 Items such as the health scheme have yet to be introduced and others—such as the removal of many of the more outrageous tax rorts—could still be frustrated were there to be an early election. 1979Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 7 Jan. 20/3 Many professional people..previously were denied access to the typical expense account rort.
2. A crowd; a wild party.
1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 61 Rort,..a crowd. 1952T. A. G. Hungerford Ridge & River 81 Out we go on another bloody rort, so what's the use of saving a day? 1969G. Johnston Clean Straw for Nothing 78, I am not, strictly, a true devotee of the wild Australian ‘rort’ and always remorseful in my hangovers. 1972Sydney Morning Herald 26 Aug. 20/3 One of her annual St Teresa's Day parties—a decorous..underworld rort in honour of St Teresa.
▪ II. rort, v. slang.|rɔːt|
[Back-formation from rorty a.]
1. intr. To shout, complain loudly; to shout abuse. Also, to call the odds at a race-meeting. Also with at.
1931T. H. Dey Leaves from Bookmaker's Book ii. 35 How he could ‘rort’, and keep his customers on the racecourse in a perpetual roar of laughter with his witty remarks. 1935M. Harrison Spring in Tartarus iii. 327 It isn't you..that I'm rorting at. 1962Granville Dict. Sailor's Slang 97/2 Rort, to shout in argument or act truculently when charged with indiscipline... In Cockney Slang to rort is to ‘shout the odds’.
2. (See quots.) Austral. slang.
1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 61 Rorting, shrewd practices, confidence trickery. 1980Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 15 June 6 (heading) Overseas tax havens and ‘rorting’ claimed. $3000m a year in tax dodges. |