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Definition of sly-grog shop in English: sly-grog shopnoun Australian, NZ informal An unlicensed property from which alcoholic drinks are sold. sly-grog shops by the dozen were doing a roaring trade Example sentencesExamples - Some exceedingly discreditable scenes have been witnessed at various times owing to the large number of sly grog shops.
- Housed in a 150-year-old former sly grog shop on one of Melbourne's most interesting streets, this small bookstore is the only retail shop in Australia specializing in cookbooks.
- Those who really wanted liquor found it at sly-grog shops or across the city boundary.
- The area deteriorated into a slum, filled with overcrowded tenement flats, sly-grog shops, and brothels.
- Years before the US Prohibition, criminals and crooked coppers ran the sly-grog shops and gambling dens that proliferated in Melbourne in the early 1900s.
- The series is set in Melbourne between 1915 and 1927, when gangsters ran a proliferating number of sly grog shops and gambling dens.
- You grew up with hamburgers and gambling and sly grog shops in inner Melbourne, and I think that's the setting for the first two poems in this book.
- Her sly-grog shops expanded services to include gambling and selling stolen goods.
- Dad got him a job before school cleaning out the empties from the sly grog shops.
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