cashed-up bogan

• cashed up bogan
• CUB, cub (abbreviation)

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cashed-up bogan (plural cashed-up bogans)

1. (Australia) A person who is unsophisticated or of a lower class background but achieving a high salary, who spends money on flashy or trashy items to fulfil their aspirations of higher social status. The stereotype includes having speech and mannerisms that are considered to denote poor education and uncultured upbringing, which is reflected in their bad taste possessions and lifestyles.
   • 2008, Christos Tsiolkas, “Aisha”, in The Slap, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 373:

     And the tourists all seem to be cashed-up bogans with plenty of money and no bloody taste or brains.

   • 2011, E. Chas McSween, Enron Hubbard, Flash Johnson, Hunter McKenzie-Smythe, Intravenus De Milo, Michael Jayfox, “Food and Drink”, in Boganomics: The Science of Things Bogans Like, Sydney, N.S.W.: Hachette Australia, →ISBN, page 281:

     Available for only $90 a bottle, the new ‘limited edition’, ‘luxury’ brand targets the cashed-up bogan who is eager to make a maxtreme statement about its exclusivity, uniqueness and wealth.

   • 2012, Nick Bryant, “Lie Back and Think of Australia”, in Confessions from Correspondentland: The Dangers & Delights of Life as a Foreign Correspondent, London: Oneworld Publications, published 2013, →ISBN, page 352:

     Then he skewered the ‘inner urban elite’, which had viewed Irwin as just a ‘fucking moron’ and, worse, a ‘cashed-up bogan’.

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