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sly-grog

[ slahy-grog ]

noun

, Australian Slang.
  1. bootleg liquor.


sly grog

noun

  1. old-fashioned.
    illicitly sold liquor
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sly-grog1

First recorded in 1835–45
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Example Sentences

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.

When the police found a sly grog tent they made short work of it, I will say.

There were no licenses issued for the various houses of entertainment, vulgarly called "sly grog shops."

In certain spots there is sly grog-selling with its concomitants of expense, stealthy drinking, and perjury.

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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