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southerly busters

southerly busters is the plural of southerly buster.

Meaning of southerly buster

Noun

southerly buster (plural southerly busters)

  1. (Australia, New-South-Wales, Western) A summer cold front which works its way up the coast, bringing strong cool southerly winds that replaces and relieves hot conditions.
    • It is almost a corollary, that the evening of a hot-wind day brings up a ‘southerly buster’, as we have heard the vulgar call it, very chill indeed ... as this wind comes from the southerly region of the Australian Alps.1850, B. C. Peck, Recollections of Sydney, quoted in 1978, G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, →ISBN

Questions about southerly busters

What is southerly busters the plural of?
Southerly busters is the plural of southerly buster.

Words near southerly busters in the dictionary

  1. Southerlands
  2. southerlies
  3. southerliness
  4. southerly
  5. southerly buster
  6. southerly busters
  7. southermost
  8. southern
  9. Southern Africa
  10. Southern African
  11. southern African frilled shark

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