biffo

English

Etymology

From biff +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɪfəʊ/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

Noun

biffo (uncountable)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Violence, fighting; a fight.

   There was too much biffo going on at that club, so I left.

   • 2006, Christine Matzke, Susanne Muehleisen, Postcolonial Postmortems: Crime Fiction from a Transcultural Perspective, page 236:

     Barrett's working class man is simply one who enjoys his beer, his rock music (like Norton, he's a man in his early thirties), and a bit of biffo.

   • 2005, William McInnes, A Man's Got to Have a Hobby, unnumbered page:

     We all liked a bit of biffo and gunplay, so when the telecast was broken for a newsflash, everyone groaned.

   • 2010, Matt Warshaw, The History of Surfing‎^[1], page 207:

     Things peaked a year later with a Sunday afternoon biffo pitting a good-sized detachment of rockers against a combined force of surfies and clubbies.