sly-grog
noun
bootleg liquor.
sly-grog
American
[slahy-grog]
/ ˈslaɪˌgrɒg /
noun
Australian Slang.
sly grog
British
noun
Etymology
Origin of sly-grog
First recorded in 1835–45
Example Sentences
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Secondly: I hereby assert that the breed of spies in this colony prospered by this sly-grog selling.
From The Eureka Stockade by Raffaello Carboni
There was on the platform a sly-grog seller, who plied with the black-bottle all the folks there, and the day was very hot, the sun was almost burning.
From The Eureka Stockade by Raffaello Carboni
She was a hard-looking woman—just the sort that might have kept a third-rate pub or a sly-grog shop.
From Children of the Bush by Henry Lawson
She talked of puttin' the police onter us, jest as if we was a sly-grog shop.
From Children of the Bush by Henry Lawson
If I had half the fifty pounds fine inflicted on sly-grog sellers, and five pounds fine on unlicensed diggers, raised on Ballaarat at this time, I think my fellow-colonists would bow their heads before me.
From The Eureka Stockade by Raffaello Carboni
There were no licenses issued for the various houses of entertainment, vulgarly called "sly grog shops."
From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by J. Macfarlane
When the police found a sly grog tent they made short work of it, I will say.
From Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields by Rolf Boldrewood
Nor were the goldfields free from "sly grog selling," as it is called.
From Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria by William Westgarth
One day, when rambling in the woods near Santo Domingo, I came across one of these "sly grog" manufactories.
From The Naturalist in Nicaragua by Thomas Belt
The reader may doubt that a "sly grog shop" could openly carry on business on a main Government road along which mounted troopers were continually passing.
From On the Track by Henry Lawson
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