Aussie rules
Aussie Rules
Definition of 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
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First Known Use of aussie rules
1918
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