Carn
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /kɑːn/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Carn is a noun meaning (Australia, informal) Come on.
Meaning
(Australia, informal) Come on.
More Meanings
- (Australia, informal) An exclamation of support or approval, usually for a sporting (football) team.
- Archaic form of cairn.
Example Sentences
Cries of "Carn the Bunnies" rang out, and the talk was of past glories, present disappointments and future hopes.
Slipper hooted. But in a moment another wedging peak was upon us. "Carn, kid. No guts, no glory." "I don't think so," I said. "It's the only way home now."
The Druid Carns are generally fenced round the bottom, by a circle of stones: these Carns had always on their summits, a large flat stone, on which the Druid fires were lighted […]
Surely there is someone in ABC Television management who has read Bruce Dawe's evocative poem Life Cycle: "When children are born in Victoria/they are wrapped in the club-colours, laid in beribboned cots/having already begun a lifetime's barracking/Carn, they cry, carn … feebly at first."
Word Forms
- carns
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include caren, karen, karn, carns, carnap, carse.
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