English
Etymology
gin#Etymology 3|Gin in the (mainly derogatory) sense of an Australian aboriginal woman.
Noun
en-noun|sg=gin burglar
- AU slang A white man who sexually exploits aboriginal women.
#: 1971: Now and then you would meet fellows who ... would go from station to station, scrounging feeds and hanging about the blacks' camp looking for girls. They were known as combos, murlongers, or gin burglars. — K. Willey, Boss Drover, quoted in w:R. M. W. Dixon|R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Aboriginal Words, Oxford University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-19-553099-3, page 167
Category:People
ru:gin burglar
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