boong

noun

1. (Australia, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur)An Australian Aboriginal person.

   “I heard Bruce tell one of the drinkers he'd bought a place in Queensland where you could ‘still call a Boong a Boong’.”

   “‘[…]I quit the feds because I didn't want to be a showpiece boong cop.’”

   ““Yeah,” he said, “them boongs are a useless lot. The sooner they all die off, the better.” “And why is that?” Bill asked. “The Abos are nothing but a pack of boozers. All they wanna' do is get pissed.” The man glared at his beer. “Useless, they are.””

2. (Australia, dated, slang)A native of New Guinea or Malaysia.

   “A couple of boongs came down and carried me up to the hut where our R.A.P. corporal was.”

   “During the War the soldiers generally referred to Papua New Guineans as “Boongs,” a name also given to black Americans. It is not a nice word, but is fair to say that the Aussies held the boongs in quite some affection during the War.”

   “[Department of Information cameraman Damien] Parer's views on mateship encompassed both the Papuans and the soldiers: at one point he wrote ‘“no boongs, no battle”, implying that natives and diggers were equal partners in their fight against the Japanese.’⁷¹”