whack the illy

English

Etymology

Presumed (but not proven) to be a back-formation from illywhacker. [1]

Pronunciation
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Verb

whack the illy (third-person singular simple present whacks the illy, present participle whacking the illy, simple past and past participle whacked the illy)

  1. (Australia, colloquial, obsolete) To carry on small-time confidence tricks, ie. the activity of an illywhacker.

References
  1. 2001, Susan Butler, The Dinkum Dictionary: The Origins of Australian Words, Text Publishing, →ISBN.
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