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sly-grog

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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, p. 71:
      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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