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单词 sly-groggery
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Definition of sly-groggery in English:

sly-groggery

noun
Australian, NZ informal
  • 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.
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