carbie
/ˈkɑːbi/noun Australian /NZ informal
A carburettor: it’s had new rear springs and a new carbie...
- Yeah, if the car has electronic fuel injection (hell, 99% do now, carbie and points, what's that?)
- It's had a new carbie kit and tune.
- I hear carbies scream wide open.
Origin
1930s: abbreviation.
- as you do
- asystole
- asystolic
- (as) —— as all get out
- (as) —— as anything
- (as) —— as hell
- (as) —— as pie
- (as) —— as sin
- as —— as the next man
- as —— as they come
- as —— as you please
- as —— go
- at
- at-
- ATA
- Atabrine
- Atacama Desert
- at a clip
- atactic
- at a disadvantage
- at a discount
- at after
- at a glance
- at a gulp
- Atalanta