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carn - What does it mean?

Definition of 'carn'

English

Interjection

(en-interj)
  • (Australia|informal) Come on.
  • (Australia|informal) An exclamation of support or approval, usually for a sporting (especially football) team.
  • * 1956' September 10, "'''Carn the Magpies!", '' The Argus
  • * 2001 March 26, "Rabbitohs win hearts and minds of the disaffected", The Sydney Morning Herald
  • Cries of "Carn the Bunnies" rang out, and the talk was of past glories, present disappointments and future hopes.
  • * 2004 February 12, "Keeping sport local on our ABC", The Age
  • Surely there is someone in ABC Television management who has read Bruce Dawe's evocative poem Life Cycle: "When children are born in Victoria/they are wrapped in the club-colours, laid in beribboned cots/having already begun a lifetime's barracking/Carn', they cry, ' carn … feebly at first."
  • * 2011' October 11, "'''Carn the Four'n Twenty, says Preston", '' Herald Sun
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    Similar to 'carn'

    crown, churn, corn, caron, croon, cairn, cran, crin, croyn, chron, cerin