deepsinker

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

n.


1) The largest sized tumbler;

2) the long drink served in it. The idea is taken fromdeep-sinking in a mining shaft.

1897. `The Argus,' Jan. 15, p. 6, Col 5:

«As athletes the cocoons can run rings round the beans; theycan jump out of a tumbler – – whether medium, small, or deepsinkeris not recorded.»