# Aussie slang and Men at Work

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 18, 2011, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aussie-slang-and-men-at-work/585967 "2011-06-18T20:22:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aussie-slang-and-men-at-work/585967/7 "2011-06-18T23:42:03Z")

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[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:1, topic:585967”]

I assume we’re talking about smoking marijuana here. Is that what “zombie” is? And a “Kombi” is an old VW bus, right?

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On a hippie trailhead full of zombies.

Different than “on a hippie trail, head full of zombie”.

Whatever the intent, the sentence seems to simply mean that the writer is in a microbus as the terminus of a trail travelled by hippie burnouts.

[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:1, topic:585967”]

I always thought they were saying “blow,” but LyricWiki says “glow.” Are they speaking of sweating (as in “horses sweat, men perspire, women glow”) or something else?

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Plunderers steal what glows. Simple rhyming. No need to read any sweat-related metaphor into it.

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