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Definition of Big Stoush in English: Big Stoushnoun the Big StoushAustralian informal The First World War. I was one of those individuals deemed unfit for active service during the Big Stoush Example sentencesExamples - I cut timber down there for a couple of years, after the Big Stoush.
- It is pretty miserable having to go home without hearing a shot fired when I tried so hard to get into the Big Stoush.
- It had gone into the Big Stoush as the 'little boy' amongst the nations and had come out with a bit of a swagger.
- The Australian diggers knew the Great War of 1914–1918 as the Big Stoush.
- He used to sit in that corner, write a bit of poetry, then stagger up to the Bulletin and sell it for five bob—just after the Big Stoush, that was.
- The Big Stoush was the war, and a stunt was a battle—these were the verbal ways of avoiding a grim reality.
- When I was a young man, we sent men to South Africa, and when the Big Stoush came on in 1914, we went right into it.
- His old man, like so many others, had not long been back from five years in the Big Stoush and had his own demons to fight.
- She was born into a society marked by returned soldiers back in civvies, trying to reconstruct the lives they had before the Big Stoush.
- His mate joins the army to fight in the Big Stoush and dies at Gallipoli.
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