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…falcon.

I knew what they meant.
If you’re thinking car or bird, you’re wrong.
If you know, you probably grew up in Queensland or New South Wales or spent lots of time there.
Since I don’t know if the page is a permanent link or not, here’s the detail.

falcon:
in Rugby League, originally being hit in the face with the ball, but now, any accidental headbutt. So called in honour of a famous incident involving the face of Mario Fenech, nicknamed `the Maltese Falcon’, or simply, `the Falcon’, because of his Maltese background.

Bibliography: Macquarie Best Aussie Slang. © 2008. James Lambert, editor. Macquarie Dictionary Publishers Pty Ltd (online edition 2010).