The term’s origins are unknown but it is believed to have emerged in Melbourne in the 1980s and referred to suburban heavy metal fans who favoured mullet hairstyles, black jeans and flannel shirts.
The website Things Bogans Like says bogans favour personalised number plates, commercial radio, fad diets, paintball and Shane Warne.
An online columnist, Tory Shepherd, said bogans are now celebrated in Australia and have gone from “trash to flash”.
“While the OED is to be congratulated for trying to keep up with the times, it’s clearly far behind them,” she wrote on The Punch website.
“Bogans can be found not just on red carpets and setting trends in glossy magazines, but in Parliament and on television. They are Gods on the sporting fields, royalty on Twitter. Today, we celebrate bogans.”
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