butcher

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

South Australian slang for a longdrink of beer, so-called (it is said) because the men of acertain butchery in Adelaide used this refreshment regularly;cf. «porter» in England, after the drink of the old Londonporters.

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