Hammerbarn

English Etymology From Hammerbarn, a fictional hardware retail store that appears in the Australian children's TV series Bluey (2018 TV series) Bluey, first introduced in the second episode of the second season which first aired in Australia on 18 March 2020. Itself from en hammer barn, likely to evoke the idea of a large warehouse in which tools and hardware supplies are sold. Noun en slang chiefly _ Australia neologism A store selling goods for home improvement and DIY, and household hardware. en 13 December 2020 StefanEJones 1338233965635768321 I'm replacing my living room carpet with tile. I think I might be able to replace the shabby bathroom linoleum too.Off to Hammerbarn to look at bathroom tile. https://web.archive.org/web/20201213212705/https://twitter.com/StefanEJones/status/1338233965635768321 13 December 2020 en 31 October 2021 onlyapaprmoon 1454765921768071168 One of these on special at Hammerbarn. I do have to keep on top of it, mowing once a week at the moment or I run out of charge about ⅔ of the way through. Same deal when I moved the height down a notch, ran out of battery before finished https://web.archive.org/web/20211031110338/https://twitter.com/onlyapaprmoon/status/1454765921768071168 31 October 2021 en 28 July 2022 oberonsghost 1552527856324182016 I have just been patronised terribly by a blokey bloke attendant at the Hammerbarn. My crime, I’m a girl who wanted to fix her own dunny seat, and didn't want the cheap nasty one. I complained. https://web.archive.org/web/20220728053533/https://twitter.com/oberonsghost/status/1552527856324182016 28 July 2022 en 15 April 2023 76Wilbury 1647135590742212612 [discussing Star Wars-themed garden statues] Everytime I walk passed those at the local Hammerbarn, the Boba [Fett] and Mando [the Mandalorian] ones get me thinking of Jango [Fett] and that is maybe not that great an association to be conjuring... en 20 May 2024 DLoweryAU 1792406287373975624 Today has been very bloody draining. Psych for child, GP for me and the bloody emotional cofferdam was broken, then off to Hammerbarn for something no-one could find, then fucking idiot drivers, now 15 minutes to sit on my arse before school pickup. Usage notes In Australia, Hammerbarn typically refers specifically to Bunnings, an Australian chain of household hardware and garden centre retail stores upon which the Hammerbarn store in the TV series was likely based. en terms derived from fiction