shypoon.
/ˈʃʌɪpuː/, /ʃʌɪˈpuː/, U.S. /ˈʃaɪˌpu/, /ˌʃaɪˈpu/, Australian English /ʃɑeˈpuː/ Australian slang.
Inferior liquor; a public house that sells this. Also attributive.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > types or qualities of intoxicating liquor > [noun] > inferior
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > types or qualities of intoxicating liquor > [adjective] > inferior
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shypoo1901
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > low drinking-house
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1901 Bulletin Reciter 30 We drank the shypoo deeply, till the lateness of the night.
1908 E. G. Murphy Jarrahland Jingles 108 The swell exclusive club, Have swept the shypoo shanty from its lair amid the scrub.
1917 Harefield Park Boomerang 16 Mar. 3 Send us a barrel of Aussy's shypoo.
1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 22 Aug. 20/1 That bubbling drink and spuming We used to call shypoo?
1936 H. Drake-Brockman Sheba Lane 237 How about managing that shipoo for me?
1962 T. Ronan Deep of Sky 218 A hostelry…restricted to the sale of beer and wine. Locally this was known as the ‘Shypoo Shop’. I'm not sure of the derivation of ‘Shypoo’. I think it is bastard Chinese for soft drink. To the sturdy second wave of pioneers of West Kimberley, beer and wine were soft drinks.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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