Meaning of shypoo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Second-rate liquor; beer.
   Australia, New-Zealand
2. A place that sells beer or cheap liquor.
   Australia

Examples

“... He circulated freely ' mong the diggers on the U. Paddy Grady's " Hessian Palace " was a scene of wild delight, And we drank the shypoo deeply, till the lateness of the night suggested a ...”

“It was difficult to brew in the heat, without proper equipment or materials, and for most of the nineteenth century beer was known by a variety of colourful nicknames such as squirt, sheep wash, stringy-bark, shypoo and shearer's joy- ...”

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