Pivot City, The

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

a nickname for Geelong.


1860. W. Kelly, `Life in Victoria,' vol. i. p. 160[Footnote]:

«The Pivot City is a sobriquet invented by the citizens tosymbolize it as the point on which the fortunes of the colonywould culminate and revolve. They also invented several otheroriginal terms – – a phraseology christened by the Melbourne pressas the Geelongese dialect.»

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