cattle-racket

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

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1852. `Settlers and Convicts; or Recollections of SixteenYears' Labour in the Australian Backwoods,' p. 294:

«A Cattle-racket. The term at the head of this chapter wasoriginally applied in New South Wales to the agitation ofsociety which took place when some wholesale system of plunderin cattle was brought to light. It is now commonly applied toany circumstance of this sort, whether greater or less, andwhether springing from a felonious intent or accidental.»

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