Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Normanton cocktail n.

[pun on gin n.1 (1)/SE gin; further racist stereotyping in ref. to Normanton, Queensland, a small cattle town with a population of 50% native Australians]

(Aus.) an Aboriginal woman and two blankets.

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J. Cantwell No Stranger to the Flame 38: ‘Give us a Normanton cocktail, darl — a gin and two blankets,’ one of the cutters said [GAW1].