rort

rort
A fraudulent or dishonest act or practice (a tax rort). Also used as a verb (to rort the system). Rort comes from standard English rorty meaning 'boisterous, jolly', and, in the late nineteenth century, 'coarse, of dubious propriety'. The second sense of rorty disappeared, but has been retained in the Australian rort. First recorded 1919.

Australian idioms. 2014.

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