A fork of Rural Dictionary
Good ol' aussie slang!
Usually when an Aussie is angry or is drunk they bang shoulders and scream "WHAT YA BLOODY DOIN' M8?"
Greg: What you bloody doing mate?
Craig: you wanna go mate?
Greg: yeah mate take you on mate!
Homosexual activity disguised as "male bonding".
"Did you hear that Chad and Nathan got drunk and beat each other off?"
"I didn't know they're gay!"
"They're not gay....Thats just mates helping mates, you know?"
1) Australian slang greeting between friends that is actually used quite often, although stereotype rejecting Australians claim we don't
2) A person you are very close to, whom they trust above all others. A person may only have one mate
1) G'day Mate
2) Person A: Mate did I tell you what that Sheila said to me yesterday?
Person B: Nah mate, here sit down and tell me over a beer
In Ghana, West Africa, this would be the conductor of a Tro-Tro. The mate collects bus fares, makes change, signals stops, arranges passengers and advertizes the tro-tro route, simultaneously.
Passenger: "Mate, Bus-stop, Atomic Junction"
Translation: Mate, could you please stop the van at Atomic Junction (name of a bus stop).
Mate: Pounds on door (and driver stops)
Passenger: Meedaase.
Translation: Thank-you
Originating from a certain public school which might be somewhere in the south of England perhaps, this is usually shouted at someone who has none. When yelled, it means "aha, you have no friends."
After a bad joke: "Oh, mates Jim."
OR, when talking about someone, "oh yeah, Jim has mates."
Except we come from good backgrounds therefore know nobody by the name of Jim.
Have no friends, and being beaten up because your a loner.
Look at Allen he is a No Mates.