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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(Australia, New Zealand, now chiefly historical) 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.’
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.
Use sly-grog when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sly-grog means (Australia, New Zealand, now chiefly historical) A place illegally selling alcohol without a license, or outside of licensed hours..
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‘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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