neddy

1. (UK, Australia, slang) A horse, especially a racehorse.Examples: "Riding overland from Sydney to Brisbane, along the beautiful North Coast district of New South Wales, I tied my neddy up on the roadside and investigated a bark-shanty some little distance off in the Bush."; "1932, Ion Idriess, The Desert Column, extracted in 2006, Rex Sadler, Tom Hayllar, In the Line of Fire: Real Stories of Australians at War, from Gallipoli to Vietnam, page 61, Some of the boys whipped off their hats and laughingly smacked their neddies′ rumps, for we hated using spurs on the poor thirsty beggars."; "From my uninformed reading of cycliterature (and other stuff), if you are a mainly short-twitch muscle type - a sprinter - then your natural cadence will be higher that^([sic]) if you are a mainly long-twitch muscle type - a hill-climber, or in neddy-racing terms, a "stayer" (I think)."AustraliaUKslang

2. (Australia, slang, in the plural, with "the") The horse races.Examples: "He′d usually be there at the same place most Saturdays and we ended up sharing a beer talking about the neddies. It just grew from there. I′d nod at him; ask him how he was going. We′d talk racing, have a dig at each other for backing losers."Australiain-pluralslangwith-definite-article

3. (Australia, colloquial, slang, usually in the plural) Horsepower.Examples: "Weird as it sounds, it was because you weren't going fast enough :-) I've found that if you wick it up too much exiting a curve you tend to do one of those feet off the pegs numbers. Fun, huh? Otoh, if you carry more corner speed the back is more likely to let go gradually, because the tyre is already closer to the edge, so it doesn't require a fist full of neddies to break it loose. I still wouldn't recommmend it for the road..."; "No chance in hell, even if it was a Gurney Eagle engine. The only way you can get those sort of neddies out of a 302 Windsor would be boost."Australiacolloquialplural-normallyslang