Definition of Darwin stubby in English:
Darwin stubby
nounPlural Darwin stubbies
Australian A very large bottle of beer, typically 2.25 litres.
he walked in carrying a Darwin stubby, which he would sink before dinner
Example sentencesExamples
- Along with its explanation of dishlickers and Darwin stubbies, it devotes nearly 90 pages to Aboriginal languages.
- These are people who herd cattle with helicopters and drink two-litre bottles of beer called Darwin stubbies.
- The Darwin stubby, the largest bottle of beer in Australia—and perhaps the world—was first introduced in Darwin in 1958.
- Crowds of Darwin stubby swillers kept the ponies racing until the last.
- How big is the Northern Territory's famous Darwin stubby?
- Be wary of the 1.25-liter Darwin stubby, though it's really only bought as a novelty souvenir these days.
- The Darwin thirst is summed up by the famed Darwin stubby—a beer bottle that looks just like any other stubby, except that it contains 2 litres instead of 375 millilitres.
- The record for downing a Darwin stubby is one minute, two seconds.
- Up here, unless you can down a couple Darwin stubbies before recess you are suspected of being a wuss.
- I could sure use a Darwin stubby.
Origin
1980s: a humorous allusion to the alleged prodigious thirst of people from the tropical Northern Territory, with reference to the small size of beer bottle known in Australia as a stubby.