A person who sells alcoholic drinks illicitly.
the police were keen to weed out sly groggers
Example sentencesExamples
- Scotch was so scarce it was not unusual for empty bottles to be refilled with fake stuff and sold off in dark alleyways by sly groggers.
- Not so very long ago, he was what you call a sly-grogger.
- The police officers believed that sly-groggers were on the job.
- I reckon the sly-groggers should join forces with the wowsers to burn down all the pubs.
- He became an enforcer for a sly-grogger.
- Some sly groggers didn't hide what they were doing.
- My mate knew a sly grogger, and by midnight we were well away.
- Once a sly grogger had been convicted and paid his fine, he was in grave jeopardy.