Definitions

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  • proper noun trademark, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa A breakfast cereal sold in Australia and New Zealand, consisting of biscuits of compressed wholegrain flakes.

Etymologies

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Deliberate alteration of wheat + biscuit. A trademark owned by Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing Company; Australian from 1920s.

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Examples

  • Visiting Weet-Bix producer Sanitarium on NSW's Central Coast, Mr Abbott said the "price of everything", including breakfast cereal, would go up under the government's carbon tax.

    The Australian | News | 2011

  • He's there trying to pretend to Australians that pricing carbon means an end to Weet-Bix.

    The Australian | News | 2011

  • A day after declaring the tax would force up the price of Weet-Bix, Mr Abbott said higher transport and energy costs would take fish off the table for many families.

    The Australian | News | 2011

  • Tony Abbott a cereal offender for claiming Weet-Bix will rise in price under carbon tax: PM JULIA Gillard has accused Tony Abbott of taking his campaign against the carbon tax to ridiculous extremes as she depicted him as out-of-step with international conservatives on the need to price carbon.

    The Australian | News | 2011

  • Once combined, add in Weet-Bix and continue to beat until they are broken.

    Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010

  • Venues will include ovals at Drummoyne, Kogarah, Bankstown, Blacktown, North Sydney and Manly and franchises will be offered to major companies like Sanitarium Weet-Bix, Pepsi, the Commonwealth Bank, McDonald's, KFC and Coca-Cola.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • Hon Annette King: What is his understanding of the current price of 2 litres of standard milk, a 1 kilogram packet of Weet-Bix, and a loaf of white toast bread, and how much cold hard cash will struggling families have to pay after these basic items are increased in price after a rise in GST on 1 October?

    NZ On Screen 2010

  • Nathan Hauritz will miss the first one-day game of the series to allow him to be available for selection for the Weet-Bix Sheffield Shield match at the Gabba starting on the 31st

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • Books, magazines, comics, newspapers, model aeroplane instructions, the back of the Weet-Bix packet ... whatever, it doesn't matter.

    Stuff.co.nz - Stuff By NATHAN BEAUMONT 2010

  • Once combined, add in Weet-Bix and continue to beat until they are broken.

    Stuff.co.nz - Stuff 2010

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