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Definition of Queen Street in English: Queen Streetnoun Australian derogatory, informal usually as modifier Used allusively to refer to a rich person from the city who dabbles in rural life for fun or profit. being a Queen Street farmer complete with a hobby orchard was not for me Example sentencesExamples - I dismissed the idea consoling myself with the thought that all farmers must start in a modest way, except possibly the Queen Street blokes.
- My colleague Doug is very well-known as a farmer, unlike others on that committee who are "Queen Street farmers".
- Local men describe themselves as a 'good honest bunch of real men, not plastic like your Queen Street fellas'.
- Sometimes I felt like a Queen Street cowboy, one of those blokes who comes out to the country from the city and gets all done up in cowboy gear when he hasn't even seen a horse, let alone ridden one.
- Very low employment to profit ratio and a high level of mechanization means massive profits for a handful of Queen Street cockies.
- The bodies of the Queen Street fellas are trim, lithe, and flexible.
- 'Rural kiwi blokehood' appears to be giving way to the 'plastic Queen Street fellas'.
- Harry wants to retire and become a Queen Street farmer.
- Is it in order for a member to refer to another member as a Queen Street farmer and expect the latter to remain silent?
- The possibility of converting income into tax-free capital gains was greater in fanning than elsewhere—the major attraction for Queen Street farmers.
Origin Late 19th century: from the name of a major street in the business district of Brisbane. |