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(Australia, obsolete, slang) To live off the earnings of a prostitute. / (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To not earn one's keep, to live off someone else or off welfare when one could be working.

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Source Word

bludge

Verb

Australia obsolete slang New-Zealand

(Australia, obsolete, slang) To live off the earnings of a prostitute. / (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To not earn one's keep, to live off someone else or off welfare when one could be working.

Japanese Meaning

売春婦の稼ぎで生活すること、もしくは本来働くべきにもかかわらず、他人や福祉に依存して生活すること

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He used to bludge by living off his partner's earnings from prostitution.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼はかつて、売春をするパートナーの稼ぎで生活していた。

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(Australia, obsolete, slang) To live off the earnings of a prostitute.

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Sense（3）

The second last Thursday in first term of Year Nine, Jason and I bludged school for the first time together. It wasn't Jason's first time. He bludged school regularly, but I never used to miss days unless I was really sick.

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Sense（4）

(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To do nothing, to be idle, especially when there is work to be done.

We had the member for Piako saying as recently as last year, when dealing with social security benefits and increases, “I feel myself that when we have able-bodied men and women who would bludge and draw the pension, there is something wrong.”

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