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.