dole bludger
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.73 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An unemployed person who has no intention of seeking a job, and survives on government-funded unemployment benefits.
Australian usage; New Zealand usage; Derogatory; Slang
Example Sentences
- "As I said earlier, the Prime Minster and the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs have unmercifully labelled sections of the unemployed as dole bludgers."
- "People who do not support the common good, such as dole bludgers (social security cheats) fall outside the mateship fold."
- "1997, Noel Pearson, Shifting Ground Indeed, in 2011, Up from the Mission: Selected Writings, page 73, So from day one of the new government we saw a sustained orgy of divisiveness and meanness about immigration, Aborigines and dole bludgers."