six o'clock swill
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Noun
six o'clock swill (uncountable)
- (Australia, New Zealand, historical) The last-minute rush to buy alcohol at a bar before it closed at 6pm.
- 2007, D. Kirkby, T. Luckins, Dining On Turtles: Food Feasts and Drinking in History, Springer, →ISBN, page 93:
- The six o'clock swill was the male ritual of consuming as many beers as possible in the hour before hotels and pubs closed at six o'clock. Early closing was introduced during World War One, when wartime patriotism and austerity and a general temperance mood impelled its introduction.
Further reading
six o'clock swill on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Eric Partridge (1984) Paul Beale, editor, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English , 8th edition, New York: Macmillan, page 1075
