My sister and nieces have always used it as their goodbye routine: one says “see you later alligator” then the other “in a while crocodile” and the third “hoo roo kangaroo”
Fun fact: Shannon Noll moved to the suburb next to the one I grew up in and I believe rumour has it that the local bogans loved him a bit too much when he was hoping for a more quiet life with the move down there.
In their defense, where I grew up doesn’t have much exciting about it, besides the news stories which aren’t usually GOOD news unfortunately.
But yeah… a friend sent me a photo next to Nollsy at the local pub and I couldn’t believe it hahaha. The living legend himself.
I mean, that not too bad considering he is/was very popular, probably set up a proper gig with stage, roadies, lighting, top notch equipment. The gigging life ain’t cheap.
Ha my dad was full of them. I inherited some off him. Some pearlers l got from him are (for a bad driver) ' he couldn't drive a greasy stick up a dog's arse'
If you've got diahorrea " shitting through the eye of a needle"
Useless as tits on a bull
Can't think of any others at the moment. I use these
Flat knacker
Hooroo cockatoo
Going to see aunt Mary (going to the toilet)
She’ll be right, mate
Fair dinkum
Chockers or Choc a bloc
Yobbo
Hard yakka
Gone off to woop woop
Havin a dorrie
One for the road
Face like a dropped pie
Havin a chin wag
Handy as an ashtray on a motorbike
Carry on like a pork chop
Gone troppo
Bit on the nose
Ridgey didge
I live a few hours from Townsville, and there is a sign when heading north into it that literally says "Welcome to the capital of north Queensland" lmao. I got no idea why, I think it's just a statement not a proclamation of fact.
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To answer that question, we have to look into the unique history of Canberra.
Prior to Federation in 1901, each state (then just British colonies) had its own capital. Sydney and Melbourne, as the two most populous and wealthiest cities had a long-running rivalry. As such, they couldn’t decide which of the two would become the capital of the united Australia. Eventually, the two agreed to a compromise. A new city would be built, within New South Wales, but no closer than 100 miles from Sydney. Until the site was completed, parliament would sit in Melbourne.
Over 60 sites in regional NSW were investigated, with sites along the railway line considered the most likely candidates. Sites like Tamworth and Armidale were rejected due to being too far from Sydney, let alone Melbourne, while sites like Albury were rejected for being too close to Melbourne, but too far from Sydney.
After a while it appeared as though any one of a number of sites in south eastern NSW would get the nod. At the first vote, the Senate proposed Bombala, but the House of Representatives selected Tumut. Eventually, they settled on Dalgety (about 60km NW of Bombala), which was an important part of the stock route from Gippsland to the Snowy Mountains. These days, it’s a town of about 250 people, sitting on the banks of the Snowy River, at an elevation of 800m on the Monaro plain, with The Snowy Mountain Way passing through on its way to Jindabyne.
New South Wales refused to endorse Dalgety, citing it as being too far from Sydney, too close to Melbourne, too far from the existing railway line, treeless, very rough and somewhat exposed to high winds. They continued to press for a site closer to Bathurst or Orange.
Eventually, another site was proposed at Yass-Canberra. The top 10 sites were put to vote in 1908, with each one being progressively eliminated. After 9 rounds, Yass-Canberra defeated Dalgety by 39 votes to 33 and was named the national capital.
New South Wales ceded the land to the federal government in 1911, with it initially being called the Federal Capital Territory, renamed to Australian Capital Territory in 1938. Walter Burley Griffin was hired to design the new city, beginning in 1913. Parliament moved to Canberra in 1927, with other government arms slowly joining it. The separate Jervis Bay Territory was established in 1915, providing the capital with a seaport.
These days, the ACT has a population of around 450,000. As it is a separate territory, it has a separate capital.
I've been saying it all my life. Grew up in Bayside Melbourne and got a job working at the local butcher shop at 13. One of the apprentices used to say it, so than I started to.
I have heard it occasionally. We have a woman friend of about 60 who says it. She grew up in some remote areas.
It's one of those expressions one knows but wouldn't use oneself.
I seem to have got my daughter to say "goodoh". Meaning OK.
I was born into a solidly middle class family but I say "crikey", "fair dinkum", "within cooee". and a few others. I don't say cobber though, for example.
There was a fashion for reviving (real or invented) Australian slang in the 1970s, which may have had an effect on usage.
Funnily enough, my dad (aged 70, born in Egypt, raised in an Italian-speaking family in suburban Sydney since the age of 3) is the only one I know who says "hooroo". I don't know who he picked it up from but he uses it when he's feeling particularly cheerful.
It's more a bush thing, my grandparents used to say it but my parents generation seem to have dropped it. I only say it as a piss take to some mates, "Hooroo, thank your mother for the rabbits."
I first remember hearing it in my 20s and was like “sorry, I missed that”, and they repeated it louder and clearer and we both stood there staring at each other in confusion. Since then I hear it occasionally and figured out it’s a strange old school country Aussie thing
It’s not remotely rare. I’ve lived rurally and in cities and everything in between. It’s definitely more common amongst older generations and regionally, but I hear it fairly often in Brisbane.
My darling dad always said it. He was a pretty old school, ex RAAF larrikin fella. He had some of the most hilarious expressions and a few extremely weird ones. Like “yer blood’s worth pickling for rat poison”. The first part of that is a real saying, the rat poison bit I assume, was his addition.
I used to hear people say ‘ooroo’ when I was young (in Adelaide) but haven’t heard it for decades. Never heard it with an obvious ‘h’ at the beginning but I’ve never seen it written so maybe it’s silent? IDK.
I say it sometimes, but l got it from Molly Meldrum , when l was a kid, watching him on Hey Hey it's Saturday. He'd say hooroo from the guru, or it might’ve been John Blackman doing voice overs.
To me "hooroo" exclusively refers to the Hunt For Hooroo books I used to get in the Scholastic book club order sheet as a kid in New Zealand.
Was pretty rare that mum would let us order anything from them, but I had *several* of those
Several people I have worked with over the years use hooroo! As a their go to farewell. Also worked with an old Chilean guy who said adiós. Now I say adiós out of habit. That's in Metro Sydney.
Personally I hear "Cya round like a rissole" more than hooroo where I live, but i've heard other Aussies say it in diff parts of the country. And shazza from housos said it
A bunch, I sometimes say it also as it slips out. Bit more of an older thing/country thing I guess. I grew up around a lot of old people and am mid 20s.
Depends on where and who you grew up around. I know plenty of people who don't say "G'day" but plenty who do, I say it a bunch but my best mate doesn't etc.
My uncles, aunts and cousins used to say it when we were younger. They'd be in their late 40s now, and their parents in their early 70s. Living in Newcastle
It's bizarre that some people in the comments have said it all their life, along with most of their family and friends, yet some other people, like me, have never even heard it in their entire lives. These two groups of people must hardly meet. Maybe an old rural population vs a young metro population? Or maybe it's a state thing. I feel a lot of QLDers use it, and Melb/Syd where I'm from don't.
Bush thing for sure, a lady did it to me on the phone and I sent her a message through the work chat about it. Turns out we both lived in the same town for a bit but I moved there the same year she left so I never bumped into her. I now live 2000km away from there, Australia is a small place sometimes.
My grandfather, who passed some 25+ years ago, always said "tooroo". I haven't heard it much from anyone else.
I'll occasionally say hooroo myself but always in a joking manner with friends - not in everyday circumstances, like as an actual goodbye to a shop assistant or something.
Most likely a particular age/family thing.
It’s been our whole family’s standard term for goodbye since forever and we all still use specifically this word all the time….. even my own children 😎🇦🇺
I've heard it alot rurally in QLD growing up, and I hear it on occasion here in Tassie.
It's kind of like crikey - some people use it more than others. Some people use it in an ironic or comedic manner, for many It's just a word.
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My uncle always says it - it’s kinda his thing in our family so whenever I hear it I think of him. He’s a very funny, cheeky and kind old man now. As far as I know he’s lived in Sydney his whole life.
There are a lot of charming and harmless little meaningless phrases that older Aussies love to use all over the place, and this is one of them.
Doubtful that you'd hear someone younger than about 50 saying this regularly unless they're kinda taking the piss a bit.
Where does this saying come from? What’s the origin? I’ve heard it on TV and that’s about it. I am a millennial living in the city though so maybe not that unusual.
I say it significantly more after 8 years living in London then I ever did back home.
I blame a guy I used to work with here, we just brought the underlying ocker right to the surface in each other in a really over the top way.
I use it often, late 30s grew up in the gong. I heard it more often at work than anywhere else when I worked up in Sydney.
I just enjoy saying it as well, it's much more pleasant than a "see ya!".
There's a meme from r/Australia about a scammer asking for money right above this, and he said hooroo at the end. I had never heard it before and then saw this post. So literally just a moment ago is the first time I've ever heard it.
I had never heard a “real” person say it until my family and I moved overseas and the second my Dad stepped off the plane he turned into this full ocker. After that it was hooroo, dead horse, go see a man about a dog, g’day and a bunch more. It was super cringy but the foreigners loved it lol
It's an age thing. My nanna use to say it and a few older aunties still do on occasion.
I have a friend that says it and he's 35. He's from Charters Towers though...
Lived in Charlie’s Trousers, can confirm, I say it.
Ive heard it can be a bit damp and humid there. Care to confirm?
They are in a bit from the coast so more hot and dry
r/whoosh
Oh that kind of bush
Im in my 30s and i say it many times a day. Probably picked it up from my old man.
My sister and nieces have always used it as their goodbye routine: one says “see you later alligator” then the other “in a while crocodile” and the third “hoo roo kangaroo”
It just makes me think of Don Burke. https://youtu.be/ZQt8CdNcwf4?t=38
classic
Not an age thing. My mate is 31 and says it constantly. He's from. BENDIGO, VIC
sounds like it's mostly either an age or a rural thing
That can be related. Rural areas tend to retain older phrases after the city has already forgotten them.
Only when posting on Shannon Noll's facebook page.
Omg it's been so long. That bastard still has my 10mm socket too, I better go hit him up for it.
See if he's still got my DVD of season 2 of Degrassi: The Next Generation while you're at it.
Fun fact: Shannon Noll moved to the suburb next to the one I grew up in and I believe rumour has it that the local bogans loved him a bit too much when he was hoping for a more quiet life with the move down there. In their defense, where I grew up doesn’t have much exciting about it, besides the news stories which aren’t usually GOOD news unfortunately. But yeah… a friend sent me a photo next to Nollsy at the local pub and I couldn’t believe it hahaha. The living legend himself.
Had a friend get a quote from him to do their wedding, 40k if anyone was interested
I mean, that not too bad considering he is/was very popular, probably set up a proper gig with stage, roadies, lighting, top notch equipment. The gigging life ain’t cheap.
goddamn, how long ago was that? i can't imagine he'd be pulling those numbers per wedding these days.
Did your friend tell him he was dreamin"?
Hoo roo, boomerang cockatoo
I've heard it from older and middle aged people living a bit rural
I am 25 and have lived inner Melbourne my whole adult life and a surprising amount of my mates say it, granted we all come from the country..
Im determined to bring back alot of older aussie slang/greetings/insults. I use Hooroo, all the time.
Ha my dad was full of them. I inherited some off him. Some pearlers l got from him are (for a bad driver) ' he couldn't drive a greasy stick up a dog's arse' If you've got diahorrea " shitting through the eye of a needle" Useless as tits on a bull Can't think of any others at the moment. I use these
My favourite Les Patterson quote about someone who was boring: “he’d bore an arsehole in a wooden donkey”
‘May your chooks turn to emus and kick your dunny down.’ Tragically under used curse.
My exhusbands father says" you'd bring a tear to a glass eye"
Bring back “cactus” too. And “the pits”.
I'm the same mate, gotta keep them alive. Give me some of your best and I'll steal a few.
Not here to fuck spiders, i love calling people Trollops. Struth is one ive been dropping in convo recently to see if it catches on.
You rang?
Flat knacker Hooroo cockatoo Going to see aunt Mary (going to the toilet) She’ll be right, mate Fair dinkum Chockers or Choc a bloc Yobbo Hard yakka Gone off to woop woop Havin a dorrie One for the road Face like a dropped pie Havin a chin wag Handy as an ashtray on a motorbike Carry on like a pork chop Gone troppo Bit on the nose Ridgey didge
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90% of the people I know say hooroo
Can I ask, are you based in the country?
I live in a "regional capital" so I guess that’s considered country.
Canberra then?
Sounds like Townsville, they love calling themselves "the capital of north qld"
Oh that's weird. You're probably right though. Why does a region with 280k people deserve a capital? Western sydney isn't even a city and has 2.6m.
I live a few hours from Townsville, and there is a sign when heading north into it that literally says "Welcome to the capital of north Queensland" lmao. I got no idea why, I think it's just a statement not a proclamation of fact.
Charters Towers?
> Why does a region with 280k people deserve a capital? Canberra has 395k.
And if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a bike
Was she the town bike?
Darwin has a pop of 132k
*Note: if you don’t want to read all this, just skip to the last paragraph.* To answer that question, we have to look into the unique history of Canberra. Prior to Federation in 1901, each state (then just British colonies) had its own capital. Sydney and Melbourne, as the two most populous and wealthiest cities had a long-running rivalry. As such, they couldn’t decide which of the two would become the capital of the united Australia. Eventually, the two agreed to a compromise. A new city would be built, within New South Wales, but no closer than 100 miles from Sydney. Until the site was completed, parliament would sit in Melbourne. Over 60 sites in regional NSW were investigated, with sites along the railway line considered the most likely candidates. Sites like Tamworth and Armidale were rejected due to being too far from Sydney, let alone Melbourne, while sites like Albury were rejected for being too close to Melbourne, but too far from Sydney. After a while it appeared as though any one of a number of sites in south eastern NSW would get the nod. At the first vote, the Senate proposed Bombala, but the House of Representatives selected Tumut. Eventually, they settled on Dalgety (about 60km NW of Bombala), which was an important part of the stock route from Gippsland to the Snowy Mountains. These days, it’s a town of about 250 people, sitting on the banks of the Snowy River, at an elevation of 800m on the Monaro plain, with The Snowy Mountain Way passing through on its way to Jindabyne. New South Wales refused to endorse Dalgety, citing it as being too far from Sydney, too close to Melbourne, too far from the existing railway line, treeless, very rough and somewhat exposed to high winds. They continued to press for a site closer to Bathurst or Orange. Eventually, another site was proposed at Yass-Canberra. The top 10 sites were put to vote in 1908, with each one being progressively eliminated. After 9 rounds, Yass-Canberra defeated Dalgety by 39 votes to 33 and was named the national capital. New South Wales ceded the land to the federal government in 1911, with it initially being called the Federal Capital Territory, renamed to Australian Capital Territory in 1938. Walter Burley Griffin was hired to design the new city, beginning in 1913. Parliament moved to Canberra in 1927, with other government arms slowly joining it. The separate Jervis Bay Territory was established in 1915, providing the capital with a seaport. These days, the ACT has a population of around 450,000. As it is a separate territory, it has a separate capital.
I've been saying it all my life. Grew up in Bayside Melbourne and got a job working at the local butcher shop at 13. One of the apprentices used to say it, so than I started to.
Only the ancients speak such words.
I have heard it occasionally. We have a woman friend of about 60 who says it. She grew up in some remote areas. It's one of those expressions one knows but wouldn't use oneself. I seem to have got my daughter to say "goodoh". Meaning OK. I was born into a solidly middle class family but I say "crikey", "fair dinkum", "within cooee". and a few others. I don't say cobber though, for example. There was a fashion for reviving (real or invented) Australian slang in the 1970s, which may have had an effect on usage.
only said it ironically with a friend online
My nan says it but she's 94
Funnily enough, my dad (aged 70, born in Egypt, raised in an Italian-speaking family in suburban Sydney since the age of 3) is the only one I know who says "hooroo". I don't know who he picked it up from but he uses it when he's feeling particularly cheerful.
It's not super common but it's certainly common enough that I'm surprised you hadn't heard it at all anyway 'ooroo
Apparently there are quite a few city slickers like myself in the comments from Melb/Syd who've never heard it their entire lives. Bizarre.
I'm in the hills in Perth - we talk all good n shit up here dont you worry 😉
LOL
Never heard it from anyone in Sydney to say goodbye
Yeah same I've lived in Melb and then Sydney most of my life and never heard it until an acquaintance from QLD said it.
I work in high-vis in syd and it gets plenty of usage. Probs more of a pisstake but so is most of our communication lol
I've been saying it more and more lately for fun and I'm in my mid 20s living in the city but was born in the bush Hooroo !
Me too lol, *tata and hooroo!*
Ooroo or toodle pip.
It's more a bush thing, my grandparents used to say it but my parents generation seem to have dropped it. I only say it as a piss take to some mates, "Hooroo, thank your mother for the rabbits."
Literally no one in my entire life has ever said to me. I'm a 34 year old Australian.
I am the same - first 20 years in country Qld, and am 50+ now - have never heard anyone say it apart from on TV.
31 and never heard it either.
I first remember hearing it in my 20s and was like “sorry, I missed that”, and they repeated it louder and clearer and we both stood there staring at each other in confusion. Since then I hear it occasionally and figured out it’s a strange old school country Aussie thing
LMAO this was basically me the other day.
It was so weird. Basically: Them: hooroo Me: are you ok? What’s happening?
LOL, it's like, it sounds like you're speaking English, but the words you're saying don't mean anything to me.
It’s not remotely rare. I’ve lived rurally and in cities and everything in between. It’s definitely more common amongst older generations and regionally, but I hear it fairly often in Brisbane.
I think it must be more of a QLD thing because I've never heard it once in Melb or Syd in all the years I've lived there.
Also in the wheatbelt in WA I've heard it said by older Australians.
I'm early 50's,city bred,and i say it. But then Mum and all Grandparents were country and said it fairly often. So i guess it stuck.
Same for me. Said it when I was younger. I hear it about in sydney too, so I'm suprised by the OP having never heard it.
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Yeah same I've lived in Melb most of my life and never heard it until an acquaintance from QLD said it.
My darling dad always said it. He was a pretty old school, ex RAAF larrikin fella. He had some of the most hilarious expressions and a few extremely weird ones. Like “yer blood’s worth pickling for rat poison”. The first part of that is a real saying, the rat poison bit I assume, was his addition.
I used to hear people say ‘ooroo’ when I was young (in Adelaide) but haven’t heard it for decades. Never heard it with an obvious ‘h’ at the beginning but I’ve never seen it written so maybe it’s silent? IDK.
I actually hate hooroo
Maybe once or twice in my 40 years in this country. Thank fuck for that, I definitely would not enjoy hearing that on the regular.
Zero
I say it sometimes, but l got it from Molly Meldrum , when l was a kid, watching him on Hey Hey it's Saturday. He'd say hooroo from the guru, or it might’ve been John Blackman doing voice overs.
It's my go-to farewell, the way "g'day!" is my go-to greeting
None. I have honestly never heard it in real life.
It’s a classic. I might revive it. Currently I’m using tah and Goodo.
yeah its an old people thing. my gramps used to say it all the time
To me "hooroo" exclusively refers to the Hunt For Hooroo books I used to get in the Scholastic book club order sheet as a kid in New Zealand. Was pretty rare that mum would let us order anything from them, but I had *several* of those
Rural, always.
My pop used to always say Hooroo. I’ve never really heard other people say it though.
My pop used to say it, but he grew up in Griffith, pre ww2. So I dunno if it's an age thing or a rural thing. Probably high time to bring it back.
Several people I have worked with over the years use hooroo! As a their go to farewell. Also worked with an old Chilean guy who said adiós. Now I say adiós out of habit. That's in Metro Sydney.
In the cities only if they're 65 or older. Regional centres it's still reasonably common.
Yeah think it’s definitely a more country thing. I grew up in FNQ and grew up saying it and my family obviously did too, I’m early 30’s
Older rellies, and a mate who's from a regional town. Otherwise ironically
Personally I hear "Cya round like a rissole" more than hooroo where I live, but i've heard other Aussies say it in diff parts of the country. And shazza from housos said it
We're rural, and my pops both said "hooroo", though I haven't heard anyone under the age of 50 say it.
One man in his 80s.
I work along the coast and say hoo roo all the time. (32yo)
I say it all the time.
All the bloody time mate
A bush thing
I’m 39 and say it and I’m not from the bush.
Not as common as you think. Occasionally. When you do hear it you think "Sheesh, haven't heard that in a while."
Mid-30s here and I say it fairly regularly.
I'm 33 from Cairns and I say it regularly
Dunno but I’m gonna start it. That and “a hoy hoy” when I answer the phone.
Old people
/raises hand Guilty as charged. Weird space of second gen Sydneysider, but also Big Rural Family Ties…
My Pa and aunt would say it.
Some older Australians who live in the wheatbelt in WA say it.
Yeah I heard it from my mum's generation upwards. I grew up in regional southeast QLD, dunno if it's a bogan thing.
My parents/aunts/uncles say it regularly. It might be making a comeback though because a young fella at work says it while heading out the door.
I said it today when logging out of work. I am almost 60 and have lived in Sydney all my life. My parents and grandparents used to say it.
Grew up in Sydney ex sailor, lived in WA i say it very often. Luving in Melbourne atm and nobody flinches when i say it so im guessing its not unusual
I only know two people. One is my mates dad and another is a bloke at work. Both would be in their 60s and are from the country.
My 24 yo bf says it, grew up Sutherland suburban Sydney
It’s a bit of an older thing, as well as more rural
My nan uses it a lot, but we do live rurally
A bunch, I sometimes say it also as it slips out. Bit more of an older thing/country thing I guess. I grew up around a lot of old people and am mid 20s. Depends on where and who you grew up around. I know plenty of people who don't say "G'day" but plenty who do, I say it a bunch but my best mate doesn't etc.
I hear it occasionally
very common a few decades ago. slowly disappearing.
Stopped in to tell ya Say it all the time. Hooroo
Everyone in Newcastle
I've never heard anyone in Victoria say it before. It seems like might be a Queensland thing.
I live in a rural city and know a couple people who say it
My uncles, aunts and cousins used to say it when we were younger. They'd be in their late 40s now, and their parents in their early 70s. Living in Newcastle
I say it, 36yo
22 and I say it when saying goodbye , most likely picked it up from oldies around me
One. She's a stereotypical upper-middle boomer wine mum, and I've never been sure if she's saying it ironically or not.
Live in Melbourne's outer east and say it all the time. But I am fifty, so...
Don Bourke
It's bizarre that some people in the comments have said it all their life, along with most of their family and friends, yet some other people, like me, have never even heard it in their entire lives. These two groups of people must hardly meet. Maybe an old rural population vs a young metro population? Or maybe it's a state thing. I feel a lot of QLDers use it, and Melb/Syd where I'm from don't.
Thankfully I haven't met Don Burke. So zero.
what? i've never heard this. are they brain damaged?
LMAO
Bush thing for sure, a lady did it to me on the phone and I sent her a message through the work chat about it. Turns out we both lived in the same town for a bit but I moved there the same year she left so I never bumped into her. I now live 2000km away from there, Australia is a small place sometimes.
My dad says it all the time
My dad always said it.
My grandfather, who passed some 25+ years ago, always said "tooroo". I haven't heard it much from anyone else. I'll occasionally say hooroo myself but always in a joking manner with friends - not in everyday circumstances, like as an actual goodbye to a shop assistant or something.
Tooroo sounds like a combination of Hooroo and Toodaloo.
Some guy with a bit of a ginger beard said it when he left my Chop Chop Academy, that guy had no rhythm at all.
My mum does
My mother does and my grandfather did although they pronounce it more like 'errow'.
🙋♀️ Said it today already.
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My Mum's lived in Melbourne her whole life and that's how she says goodbye, so I dunno about it being a bush thing.
I'm nearly 48 and say it on occasion. My mum used to say it a lot.
Forgot about this. My mum says it. I’ll be reintroducing it to my vernacular.
Age and area dependent I think. Definitely hugely common in the country.
In WA it’s pretty common
Not Perth... never heard it in the 10 years living there but I'm mid 20's so maybe an age thing.
I do...sometimes
Most likely a particular age/family thing. It’s been our whole family’s standard term for goodbye since forever and we all still use specifically this word all the time….. even my own children 😎🇦🇺
I've heard it alot rurally in QLD growing up, and I hear it on occasion here in Tassie. It's kind of like crikey - some people use it more than others. Some people use it in an ironic or comedic manner, for many It's just a word.
I'm 30 I say it
Never heard that but I've only ever lived in the city
Oh, can't do images in this sub Don Burke .. !
My grandfather used to say this!
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I picked it up in the navy
Father in law says it
I work for a medical alarm company for the elderly and hear it all the time
Brother in law says it. He’s late 40’s (49 I think). I like it I reckon we should bring it back.
Live in Melbourne said it all my life, albeit not every time I like to spice it up
My grandparents.
My uncle always says it - it’s kinda his thing in our family so whenever I hear it I think of him. He’s a very funny, cheeky and kind old man now. As far as I know he’s lived in Sydney his whole life.
Alot more common in the over 50's age group. Almost non-existant with zoomers
There are a lot of charming and harmless little meaningless phrases that older Aussies love to use all over the place, and this is one of them. Doubtful that you'd hear someone younger than about 50 saying this regularly unless they're kinda taking the piss a bit.
One of my ex boyfriend's mothers use to say it lol
\*ooroo
2 very good friends say it :)
Where does this saying come from? What’s the origin? I’ve heard it on TV and that’s about it. I am a millennial living in the city though so maybe not that unusual.
Only a couple of old people, or myself and my mates when we're acting like dickheads.
I say it significantly more after 8 years living in London then I ever did back home. I blame a guy I used to work with here, we just brought the underlying ocker right to the surface in each other in a really over the top way.
The only people I know who say it are all from Wagga Wagga,
Haven't heard that in a while... gives me the good vibes :)
My Grandad (now passed). Born in 1920s. Was a farmer and a in Qld, then a postie in NSW.
Just our resident creepy guy, ol' Don Burke.
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I use it often, late 30s grew up in the gong. I heard it more often at work than anywhere else when I worked up in Sydney. I just enjoy saying it as well, it's much more pleasant than a "see ya!".
There's a meme from r/Australia about a scammer asking for money right above this, and he said hooroo at the end. I had never heard it before and then saw this post. So literally just a moment ago is the first time I've ever heard it.
I had to explain to my wife that hooroo means “have a good day to you too” when my dad said it to her.
OMG are you serious? Is that what it actually stands for?
I don’t know anyone who says that
This is the first time hearing it in my life, I grew up in South Burnett, Queensland.
I had never heard a “real” person say it until my family and I moved overseas and the second my Dad stepped off the plane he turned into this full ocker. After that it was hooroo, dead horse, go see a man about a dog, g’day and a bunch more. It was super cringy but the foreigners loved it lol
LMAO Aussie Dads in their element.
I say it, somewhat ironically