A group of people who have assembled to play the gambling game of two-up.
they all circle around like a two-up school, peering down
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In 1898 five coaches were held up at the mouth of the gorge as a two-up school proceeded in the middle of the road, much to the horror of a prominent West Coast justice of the peace.
It was known as a gold town in the 1860s but the huge numbers of miners was obviously not enough - they had to wait til the umpteen pubs, brothels and two-up schools disappeared.
The polo club and the orchestral ensemble, the dockside tavern and the two-up school, each had distinct adherents according to socio-economic status.
He was the Gentleman of the Sydney underworld, nightclub owner and the man behind the infamous Thommo's two-up school.
McCormack also offered Theodore an apprenticeship in running a two-up school.
The police never seemed to worry about the two-up school, for there was rarely a raid.
At one two-up school of the 1890s in Melbourne two boxers were kept gloved up so that, in the event of a raid, they could take over the ring and thwart the police.