sly-grog (pluralsly-grogs)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, now chiefly historical) A place illegally sellingalcohol without a license, or outside of licensed hours.[from 19th c.]
   • 2001,Richard Flanagan,Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published2016, page88:

     ‘The only taproom in Hobart without a Gould on the wall,’ remarked thesly-grog shop owner Mr Capois Death[…], ‘is the one with Gould in the gutter.’

   • 2020, Amanda Laugensen,Rooted, NewSouth Publishing, page71:

     For want of anything else to do, diggers frequented thesly-grog shops, got drunk, and were then prone to use bad language and become either victims or perpetrators of crime and violence.

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