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A type of person. While many people believe that being a Bogan is a geographical affliction, it’s more a state of mind or a lifestyle. It is an attitude, a fashion, but above all it is an aura. Bogans do, however, tend to be concentrated in certain areas. The term can be used in jest amongst good friends¹, but generally is not complimentary.
Common Bogan Traits
A bogan is often lazy with their speech and will often enunciate ‘f’ instead of ‘th’.
It is not uncommon for bogans to have doorbells that play their footy team’s song when it is ‘buzzed’ (though this is also a trait familiar to fish wives).
Drinking beer on the front lawn at 10 in the morning is considered the height of bogan behaviour. As is having a couch on the front lawn.
Common Bogan Fashions
Female bogans often accessorise with one or more children who are dragged along behind them and regularly scremed and cursed at in an earpiercing whining high pitched manner. The screaming and cursing is carried out while the bogan fags in a shazza like manner.
Male bogans commonly sport black t-shirts (sometimes teamed with black jeans). The t-shirt will generally be adorned with a lewd unsubtle message or the name of the Bogan’s favourite car manufacturer or heavy metal band. A pack of fags (cigarettes) is commonly placed under one of the sleeves of the t-shirt. Often, a flanny (druggie shirt/flannelette shirt) will be worn over the top of the t-shirt with all the buttons open in a jacket like fashion. Their hair is often styled in a mullet-esque manner.
NOTE: A bogan male dressed in a tuxedo can still be easily identified as a bogan, proving Bogan is more than just fashion statement.
Similar Terms
A number of interchangeable terms are used to describe this type of person. Some terms are unique to a particular region while other terms are more or less global.
Southern Hemisphere
‘bethe, Booner, Westy, etc
Related Links and Resources
Urban Dictionary: Bogan
¹Using the term bogan on someone just because they live in a bogan-geographic location is highly likely to cause extreme offence.
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