rortn.
/rɔːt/, U.S. /rɔrt/, Australian English /rɔːt/ Australian slang.
1. A fraudulent or dishonest practice; a trick, a dodge. Frequently with modifying word.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun] > instance of
braida1000
fraudc1374
mock1523
brogue1537
flim-flamc1538
imposture1548
lie1560
cozening1576
smoke-hole1580
gullery1598
gull1600
cog1602
coggery1602
fraudulency1630
imposition1632
cheat1649
fourbery1650
prestige1656
sham1677
crimp1684
bite1711
humbug1750
swindle1778
hookum-snivey1781
shim-sham1797
gag1805
intake1808
racket1819
wooden nutmeg1822
sell1838
caper1851
skin game1879
Kaffir bargain1899
swizzle1913
swizz1915
put-on1919
ready-up1924
rort1926
jack-up1945
1926 ‘Dryblower’ Verses 50 A bank-roll unto him is ‘Oscar Asche’, A swindle is to him a ‘joke’, a ‘wrought’.
1936 J. Devanny Sugar Heaven 20 The cockies are supposed to pay this retention money into the bank..but normally they don't pay it in... It's the greatest rort ever.
1958 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 24 Aug. 4/4 ‘If they don't it will be a rort.’ ‘But why should it be a rort?’ asks the man.
1973 Nation Rev. (Melbourne) 31 Aug. 1441/3 The removal of many of the more outrageous tax rorts.
1979 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 7 Jan. 20/3 Many professional people..previously were denied access to the typical expense account rort.
2001 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 5 July 1/4 Mr Cherry confessed to the vote rort inquiry earlier this year that he had agreed to take part in a Labor Party branch-stacking scam in South Brisbane in 1986.
2. A wild party; an escapade.
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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > noisy or rowdy
bender1846
hooley1877
corroboree1885
wild party1925
whoopee1928
rort1941
wingding1949
blast1953
smash1963
roister1964
rave-in1967
rager1988
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > of people or animals > regarded as a whole or a body of people gathered > large or numerous
weredc725
herec855
heap971
trumec1380
multitudea1382
herda1400
swarm1423
confluence1447
puissance?a1475
army?1518
multitudine1547
bike1554
conflux1702
snarl1775
rallya1794
populace1823
hive1834
skreeda1838
skit1913
rort1941
1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 61 Rort,..a crowd.
1952 T. A. G. Hungerford Ridge & River 81 Out we go on another bloody rort, so what's the use of saving a day?
1969 G. Johnston Clean Straw for Nothing 78 I am not, strictly, a true devotee of the wild Australian ‘rort’ and always remorseful in my hangovers.
1972 Sydney Morning Herald 26 Aug. 20/3 One of her annual St Teresa's Day parties—a decorous..underworld rort in honour of St Teresa.
2002 Timaru Herald (Nexis) 8 Aug. 2 Other parents who have been to rorts said how someone didn't get killed they didn't know. There were drunken teenagers all over the road with their mates running out to pull them back.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
rortv.
/rɔːt/, U.S. /rɔrt/, Australian English /rɔːt/ 1. intransitive. British slang. To shout, complain loudly; to shout abuse. Also: to call the odds at a race meeting. Also with at. Now rare.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (intransitive)]
chirmOE
talec1275
rounda1325
cryc1384
shoutc1385
hallowc1420
roupa1425
glaster1513
hollo1542
yawl1542
to set up (also out) one's throat1548
vociferate1548
bawl1570
gape1579
hollo out?1602
holloa1666
to cry up1684
holler1699
halloo1709
belvea1794
parliament1893
foghorn1918
rort1931
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > utter invective or abuse [verb (intransitive)]
railc1475
envy1477
inveigh1529
blaspheme1584
invect1614
invectivate1624
to cast, throw, or fling dirt1642
ran-tan1660
philippicize1799
to fire a broadside1827
tirade1871
diatribe1893
rort1931
foul-mouth1960
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > bet [verb (intransitive)] > call odds
to shout the odds1894
rort1931
1931 T. H. Dey Leaves from Bookmaker's Bk. ii. 35 How he could ‘rort’, and keep his customers on the racecourse in a perpetual roar of laughter with his witty remarks.
1935 M. Harrison Spring in Tartarus iii. 327 It isn't you..that I'm rorting at.
1962 W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 97/2 Rort, to shout in argument or act truculently when charged with indiscipline... In Cockney Slang to rort is to ‘shout the odds’.
2. transitive. Originally and chiefly Australian Politics. To engage in fraudulent or dishonest manipulation of (a system, records, an election, etc.). Also occasionally intransitive.
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1982 Parl. Deb. (Austral. Senate) 23 Sept. 1272/2 One would get the impression that..[he] was rorting and racketeering, instead of being a very honest, upright citizen.
1985 Bull. (Sydney) 19 Nov. 47/2 A plan to rort the roll could involve isolating the names of members who are listed under out-of-date addresses and substituting..‘letterbox’.
1990 J. Blackman Aussie Slang Dict. 82 People receiving social welfare benefits under false pretences are ‘rorting’ the system.
1999 R. Tiffen Scandals vi. 176 The coincidence of two independent examples of MPs rorting their travel allowances suddenly gave the theme greater political currency.
2006 Nelson Mail (N.Z.) (Nexis) 16 Oct. 2 [He] issued a statement outlining five ways in which National had tried to ‘rort the 2005 elections’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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