'southerly buster' definitions:

Definition of 'southerly buster'

From: GCIDE
  • Brickfielder \Brick"field`er\, n. [Australia]
  • 1. Orig., at Sydney, a cold and violent south or southwest wind, rising suddenly, and regularly preceded by a hot wind from the north; -- now usually called {southerly buster}. It blew across the Brickfields, formerly so called, a district of Sydney, and carried clouds of dust into the city. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • 2. By confusion, a midsummer hot wind from the north. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]