Aussie rules
noun, plural in form but singular in construction
variants or Aussie Rules
: australian rules football
Aussie rules players don't wear any equipment, so putting on a helmet was foreign.
Dave Sell, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 1995
Dave Sell, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 1995… Aussie Rules is a full-contact sport in which a clothesline tackle is a perfectly acceptable method of knocking a player down. Scott Sexton, Winston-Salem (North Carolina) Journal, 18 Sept. 2008
Scott Sexton, Winston-Salem (North Carolina) Journal, 18 Sept. 2008
Word History
First Known Use
1918, in the meaning defined above