red ned
noun [mass noun] Australian /NZ informal
Red wine of inferior quality: he was huddled in a corner, a lone bottle of red ned for company...
- In rejoicing at his freedom, he had quaffed half a bottle of red ned.
- I could get us up a bottle of Red Ned, a drop of Muscat?
- During a break he opened his capacious picnic hamper and produced a bottle of Red Ned.
Origin
Early 20th century: rhyming reduplication, possibly influenced by red biddy.
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- flip one's lid (or one's wig)
- flippancy
- flippant
- flippantly
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- flip phone
- flipping
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- flippy-floppy
- flip side
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- flip the script
- flip through
- flip-top
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- flirtation
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