Parkie
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Parkie is a noun meaning (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) An Aboriginal who sleeps rough in parks.
Meaning
(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) An Aboriginal who sleeps rough in parks.
More Meanings
- (UK, Ireland, slang) A parking or traffic warden.
- (slang) A parkkeeper; an employee of a public park.
- (slang) A person with Parkinson's disease.
Example Sentences
Some people with Parkinson’s embrace being called a ‘Parkie’, while others hate the term.
Walking into the inner-city Brisbane suburb of West End one morning, I witnessed a group of Aboriginal “parkies” being moved on from a corner of the main road.
The health service was a sanctuary for Aboriginal people, especially the “parkies” – a young Roach among them – who were living on the nearby streets, many having gravitated to inner-city Melbourne to try to trace their families after years spent on reserves and missions.
Word Forms
- parkies
- parky
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include parky, paker, pike, nosy parker, parisher, peer.
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