Meaning

(Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory stereotype) An unsophisticated person from a working class background..

Definitions by Sense

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory stereotype) An unsophisticated person from a working class background.
2. (New Zealand, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Anglo-Celtic member of a lower socioeconomic group, stereotypically classified as wearing black jumpers or black concert T-shirts.
3. (New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A petrolhead.
4. (rare, derogatory) To act like a bogan.
5. (Canada, Maine) Any narrow water or creek, particularly a tranquil backwater.
6. (Canada, North Western Ontario, slang, derogatory, offensive) An indigenous person.

Example Sentences

Bogans were Lockie's least favorite kind of people.

The Reservoir I grew up in was populated by menacing, toothless Torana-driving bogans, crushed menthol-smoking pensioners and toddlers who swore.

If you're coming in to cause trouble, don't bother […] bogan it up at home.

All around the shores of the narrow bogan crowded the beasts, watching with wide, fascinated eyes the flight and fall of these disastrous missiles.

Negative Stereotypes: Indians, natives, bogans, nates, […]

Greg Quachegan, a teacher at Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School, was walking with his young daughters when someone yelled, “Bogans,” at them. He has no idea what it means, but it’s a slur aboriginal people hear often.

"There's young men, on the weekends, they will throw beer bottles at you and yell out 'bogan' or 'squaw' or 'whore,'" said Deanne Hupfield, who grew up in Thunder Bay.

Is that the same blue truck that is throwing rocks out the passenger window and screaming at natives calling them bogans walking on the street?

Word Forms

• bogans
• boganning
• boganned

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When Should You Use Bogan?

Use bogan when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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