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sly-grog

noun

Definitions

  1. A place illegally selling alcohol without a license, or outside of licensed hours.

    • ‘The only taproom in Hobart without a Gould on the wall,’ remarked the sly-grog shop owner Mr Capois Death […], ‘is the one with Gould in the gutter.’
    • For want of anything else to do, diggers frequented the sly-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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