Definition of "wharfies" [wharfies]

• Plural form of wharfie. (noun)

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• "The Yanks were like wharfies, they were the bosses, very tough, but they were good to work for, said Father Tapim, chuckling at the memory."
• "Across the country, seamen, wharfies and other MUA members took part in a one minute stoppage on 7 April to commemorate the Patrick dispute, during which security guards with dogs stormed every dock in Australia run by Patrick Stevedores and sacked 2000 unionised workers and forcibly removed those on the job."
• "Antony's poems appeared in the radical press of the 1920s and 30s and his poem 'The Hungry Mile' entered the oral culture of wharfies often without any attribution to the author."