gin burglar

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Definition of gin burglar in English English dictionary

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 R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Aboriginal Words, Oxford University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-19-553099-3, page 167.

Related Terms

gin burglars

plural form of gin burglar

Hyphenation

gin bur·glar

Turkish pronunciation

cîn bırglır

Synonyms

gin jockey

Pronunciation

/ˈʤən ˈbərglər/ /ˈʤɪn ˈbɜrɡlɜr/

Etymology

() Gin in the (mainly derogatory) sense of an Australian aboriginal woman.