How to use sly-grog in a sentence
It was past nine o'clock in the evening when Richard, who had been drinking at some of the sly grog-shanties, came to the tent.
Grif | B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) FarjeonWhen the police found a sly grog tent they made short work of it, I will say.
Robbery Under Arms | Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf BoldrewoodThere were no licenses issued for the various houses of entertainment, vulgarly called "sly grog shops."
The Book of the Bush | George DunderdaleIn certain spots there is sly grog-selling with its concomitants of expense, stealthy drinking, and perjury.
The Long White Cloud | William Pember ReevesShe was a hard-looking woman—just the sort that might have kept a third-rate pub or a sly-grog shop.
Children of the Bush | Henry Lawson
British Dictionary definitions for sly grog
Australian and NZ old-fashioned illicitly sold liquor
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