wharfie

1. (Australia, New Zealand, informal, colloquial) A wharf worker: synonym of dockworker.Examples: "“It’s a twenty-four-hour stoppage,” he said. “The wharfies went to the Arbitration Court for another pound a week for something or other, and they didn’t get it, so they’ve stopped work for a day to show their displeasure […]”"; "One night, soon after the battle of the Coral Sea, the US transport ship Shenandoah steamed up the Brisbane River to the wharves at Hamilton. She tied up just before eleven o′clock and at midnight a fresh shift of wharfies began unloading her cavernous holds."; "But a group of wharfies rushed the ballot box, opened it, and ripped up some voting slips and threw others over a fence."AustraliaNew-Zealandcolloquialinformal