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Definition of saltie in English: saltienounˈsɔːlti Australian informal A saltwater crocodile. he was doing maintenance on the crocodile pen when the saltie tried to make a meal of him Example sentencesExamples - Last year a 3.5m saltie snatched a dog at a creek that runs into popular Kewarra Beach, just north of Cairns.
- After hearing tapping on the door to their room, a couple of weary travellers peered through the curtains to be greeted by a 2.5 metre female saltie staring back at them.
- I definitely wouldn't do river swimming in, say, northern Australia where the salties are truly evil.
- One of the "salties" was trapped on the west coast of the Cape York Peninsula and then flown by helicopter to the east coast.
- Its core, containing millions of invaluable photographs, survives and falls to earth over northern Australia, only to be ingested by a huge saltie.
- Male salties are such nice guys that they even eat their own young, so mother croc has much work to do in preserving her offspring.
- His wife Jane, who is also a police officer, was praised for her quick thinking after driving their boat between her husband and the big saltie and hauling him out of the water.
- We'd be getting up close and personal with salties.
- There won't be salties up here because of the shallows further down.
- They knew there might be the occasional saltie as well as the smaller and more benign freshwater crocodiles, but had ancient knowledge to deal with them.
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