sly-grog

English

Noun

sly-grog (plural sly-grogs)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A place illegally selling alcohol without a license, or outside of licensed hours. [from 19th c.]
    • 2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 88:
      ‘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.’
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