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Pitt Street farmer


noun one who owns a country property, often for tax loss purposes, but who lives and works in Sydney. Compare Collins Street cocky, Queen Street bushie. [name of a street in central Sydney]

Contributor's comments: I described my father as a Pitt Street farmer since at least 1975. He bought a small farm 100 km from Sydney and went there every weekend from the southern suburbs of Sydney.