bludge

noun

1. (Australia, New-Zealand, slang, uncountable)The act of bludging.

   “A friend offered him a job working as a handyman in his carpet factory – a Mr Fix-it. Effectively off the bludge and back on track.”

2. (Australia, New-Zealand, slang, uncountable)Easy work, especially a subject at school that requires little effort.

   “Oh, my name is Gecko and I just thought the whole unit was a bludge, sometimes it got really boring. But like I said I could just fall asleep and let my group members do all the work. And still almost pass.”

   “‘Seriously, you′ve got sheep at school?’ I said. ‘Yeah, heaps of kids here do Ag. Reckon it′s a big bludge, like drama.’”

verb

1. (Australia, obsolete, slang)To live off the earnings of a prostitute.
2. (Australia, New-Zealand, slang)To not earn one's keep, to live off someone else or off welfare when one could be working.
3. (Australia, New-Zealand, slang)To avoid one's responsibilities; to leave it to others to perform duties that one is expected to perform.

   “The second last Thursday in first term of Year Nine, Jason and I bludged school for the first time together. It wasn't Jason's first time. He bludged school regularly, but I never used to miss days unless I was really sick.”

   “One of the mess orderlies had consistently bludged on the rest of us all day.”

4. (Australia, New-Zealand, slang)To do nothing, to be idle, especially when there is work to be done.

   “We had the member for Piako saying as recently as last year, when dealing with social security benefits and increases, “I feel myself that when we have able-bodied men and women who would bludge and draw the pension, there is something wrong.””

   “Now, you get back out there and you bludge! I don't want to see anyone working, OK? I don't want to see any pick-axes, any hammers, or nothing.”

   “I mean, school′s like a job. If you work for it you get your grades; if you work your hours you get your money. But if you bludge, you don't get money; if you bludge you don't get any grades. That's something that I didn't realize when I was young.”

5. (Australia, New-Zealand, slang)To take some benefit and give nothing in return.

   “Can I bludge a cigarette off you?”

   “Gabriel was a classic bludger. He was a drop-out in the very modern sense of the word. The Rossettis were anything but well-heeled. Solid old brother William kept the show on the road. Gabriel bludged on the family. He bludged on his mates.”

   “Now an adult with his own family, this man has become conscious of different norms among his children's white friends, and that whites often see sharing as bludging.”