sly-grog
sly-grog noun: a place illegally selling alcohol without a license, or outside of licensed hours.
Noun
sly-grog (plural sly-grogs)
- A place illegally selling alcohol without a license, or outside of licensed hours.
- ‘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.’2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 88
- For want of anything else to do, diggers frequented the sly-grog shops, got drunk, and were then prone to use bad language and become either victims or perpetrators of crime and violence.2020, Amanda Laugensen, Rooted, NewSouth Publishing, page 71
Forms of sly-grog
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Questions about sly-grog
- What does sly-grog mean?
- Sly-grog means a place illegally selling alcohol without a license, or outside of licensed hours.
- What part of speech is sly-grog?
- Sly-grog is a noun.
- What is the plural of sly-grog?
- The plural of sly-grog is sly-grogs.
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