Aussie rules

noun, plural in form but singular in construction

variants or Aussie Rules

: australian rules football

Aussie rules players don't wear any equipment, so putting on a helmet was foreign.

—Dave Sell, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 1995

… Aussie Rules is a full-contact sport in which a clothesline tackle is a perfectly acceptable method of knocking a player down.

—Scott Sexton, Winston-Salem (North Carolina) Journal, 18 Sept. 2008

Word History

First Known Use

1918, in the meaning defined above

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