Definition of "galah" [galah]

• An Australian cockatoo (Cacatua roseicapilla) having pale blue-gray plumage and a pink breast. (noun)
• Australian A fool; an idiot. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "You people who listened to the previous government and fixed your interest rates due to the fact that some 'galah' stated that interest rates would rise under a Labor Government, well thats your own fault and no-one elses."
• "And Jay Rose is madder than a drongo in a dingo's hem de hem: "It's" galah ", not" galaha "."
• "The galah turned into a narrow, low-ceilinged corridor."