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trev

nounnounattested in dialogue

  • Australia

A farm assistant or other rural worker; an ordinary country bloke.

noun

  1. 1

    slangA farm assistant or other rural worker; an ordinary country bloke.

  2. 2

    slangAn urban lower-class youth.

Etymology

New Zealand slang sense: from characters named Trev in a television comedy of the 1970s. See Fred Dagg.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of trefAlternative form of tref (“ancient hamlet”)

    This fixes for us the number of homesteads or tyddyns in the trev.

Forms

plural
trevs
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).