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mate: Where's your cobber?; He is my best cobber.

Contributor's comments: It is still frequently and predominantly used in Tasmania. I hear it almost every week I am in Hobart and I am usually there about 3-5 weeks a year. I now live in Melbourne. Is your database unduly skewed towards Sydney, NSW?? I find it astonishing that cobber is not listed under Tasmania!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Editor's comments: Are there other areas around the country where this is used "frequently". In Sydney, I myself remember hearing it just once in the last 6 years. And then it was by a truckie standing on the path beside his truck - so I guess he could've come from anywhere.

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a small hard toffee cube covered in chocolate: 5 cents will get ya 10 cobber's (in 1970 at the lolly counter of the local shop).

Contributor's comments: Common in Sydney when I was a kid (1970s). I think you can still get them.

Contributor's comments: Cobber was used when I grew up in the central wheatbelt region of WA to describe this fantail like lollie.

Contributor's comments: This was a phrase used by my grandfather, Northern NSW in the 60's & 70's - I understood it to be an old war term for 'mate', G'day Cobber.

Contributor's comments: Cobber, not the lollie, is used in the same vein that the word "mate" is used. As in "have a good weekend, cobber?"