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Definition of sly grog in English: sly grognoun mass nounAustralian, NZ informal Alcohol sold illicitly. Example sentencesExamples - With sly grog sellers, cattle rustlers and other dishonest elements and the occasional friction between Aborigenes and station people it was decided that a police camp would be established in the area.
- In your community alcoholism is a problem and so is joined to that, sly grog.
- In March 1873 Whitbread left far away Mount Freeling Station for the smelters at Bolla Bollana, to investigate a report of sly grog selling.
- Between the wharves and the interstate railway station, built in the 1880s, were streets of sly grog and loose women, dance halls and theatres, a place where local mixed with foreign.
- We've never been really close buddies, but we've shared some mischief, and I've written thousands of words on the man and, yes, I've documented his lifestyle - the potted sex and drugs and sly grog history - as much as anyone.
- Those who really wanted liquor found it at sly grog shops or across the city boundary.
- During the Christmas holiday break it was reported that, ‘Some exceedingly discreditable scenes have been witnessed at various times owing to the large number of sly grog shops.
- In 1883 a riot erupted at the Mackay racecourse when a sly grog dealer refused to serve the Islanders, who responded by throwing bottles.
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