An unlicensed property from which alcoholic drinks are sold.
ex-miners inflamed by drinking rot-gut at Old Harry's sly-groggery
Example sentencesExamples
- One of Chuck's early jobs with him was to trap a woman conducting a sly-groggery.
- He knew the locations of the sly groggeries, brothels, bookie outlets, and gambling and booze dens.
- The affluence of its patrons gave it a de facto respectability that eluded less opulent sly-groggeries.
- Your manner was as sharp as if I had actually proposed to you to start a sly-groggery.
- A policeman at the present time may know a sly-groggery is proceeding in a certain quarter.