sly-grog
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sly-grog
First recorded in 1835–45
Example Sentences
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She was a hard-looking woman—just the sort that might have kept a third-rate pub or a sly-grog shop.
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She talked of puttin' the police onter us, jest as if we was a sly-grog shop.
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The source of pauperism will be settled in Victoria by any quill-driver, who has the pluck to write the history of public-houses in the towns, and sly-grog sellers on the gold-fields.
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Hence the troopers were despatched like bloodhounds, in all directions, to beat the bush; and the traps who had a more confined scent, creeped and crawled among the holes, and sneaked into the sly-grog tents round about, in search of the swarming unlicensed game.
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Secondly: I hereby assert that the breed of spies in this colony prospered by this sly-grog selling.
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