Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus.) an Aborigine woman who is a man’s girlfriend or mistress.

1892		Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 6 Aug. 5/2: [poem title] The Storekeeper’s Fancy Gin. A Darling River Romance.
1906		Sun Kalgoorlie) 11 Mar. 6/5: ‘Bandy Bill’ (Leonora). - Your letter is decidedly ‘blue,’ and though we do not pretend to be religious at any time, still we cannot print your stuff. [...] Your poem on ‘My Bush Bride,’ commencing - ‘Satin-skinned, bright-eyed and supple / Is my fancy gin.’ Is only fit for circulation among sexual maniacs.
1910		Truth (Perth) 8 Oct. 5/1: A Murchison squatter affords provision of another instance of many such that might be mentioned. He made a journey of about a hundred miles to capture a fancy gin from another station.

(Aus.) a white man who enjoys sexual relations with Aborigine women.

1912

Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Feb. 14/1: The word ‘combo’ – means a ‘gin banger’, which. in turn, means a white man who descends to domestic association with the female aboriginal.

(Aus.) a white man who enjoys sexual relations with Aborigine women.

1892

Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 6 Aug. 5/2: But gin-boy didn’t see the fun, / And wouldn’t take the bait; / His hen-pecked features wore a grin, / He said, ‘I’m fly, you bet, / I keep a shovel for the gin, / And pay for what I get!’.

(Aus.) a white man who enjoys sexual relations with Aborigine women; thus gin-burglary n., having sex with a ‘gin’.

1947		W.E. Harney North of 23° 77: We had the eternal clash of ‘gin burglar’ versus ‘gin shepherd’.
1958		W.E. Harney Content to Lie in the Sun 46: ‘The downtrodden’s day will come soon, then you “gin-burglars” will have to respect the rights of the weak.’ [...] ‘Yes, and that day, both you and I, my friend, will have to pay more for the “girls”.’.
1963		Bulletin (Sydney) 23 Mar. 15/1: The Daly River [...] for 80 years has been a refuge for happy-go-lucky hermits with a taste for OP rum and what Territorians call ‘gin burglary’.
1971		K. Willey Boss Drover 46: The manager would refer to ‘combos’ and ‘gin burglars’ as though they were social outcasts. But let his wife go away for a while ... and he would be down to the blacks’ camp in no time.
2001		Personal Glassware Gazette ‘Letters from Oz’ 🌐 I may even bring back Wayne – my personal ‘bodyguard’ – even though he is fond of a drink. In fact his passport describes him as a gin burglar.

(Aus.) a white man who enjoys sexual relations with Aborigine women.

1954		T. Ronan Vision Splendid 217: That Blandings at Baritana is the greatest gin-cuddler I’ve ever seen in my life.
1956		T. Ronan Moleskin Midas 225: Why would blokes like Frank Heritage, who’d been a pretty good gin-cuddler in his day, turn round and get married.
1977		D. Stuart Drought Foal 188: You’re a thoroughgoin’ gindozzler, an’ in a year or two you’ll be a red-hot combo [AND].

(Aus.) a white man who enjoys sexual relations with Aborigine women.

1955		D. Niland Shiralee 121: He hated the ignominy of capitulating to a harlot, and a black one at that. Macauley, the gin-jockey, they could say.
1963		R. Stow Tourmaline 84: Ah, he’s a gin-jockey too, is he? Young bastard.
1975		K. Willey Ghosts of the Big Country 32: Those who transgressed were denigrated as ‘combos’ and ‘gin jockeys’.
1981		A. Weller Day of the Dog 34: You her boyfriend, you skinny little gin-jockey shit?
2005		M.B. ‘Chopper’ Read Chopper 4 180: Abos, spooks, coons, slopes, chows, dagos, spags, spics, greasers and wogs – and whatever other third world gin jockey or porch monkey that came along.

(Aus.) a white man who enjoys sexual relations with Aborigine women.

1963

A.E. Farrell Vengeance 84: You yeller gutted bastard of a gin man, Albanez!

(Aus.) a white man who enjoys sexual relations with Aborigine women.

1902

Bulletin (Sydney) 27 Dec. 15/1: Camp-robberies, also, were almost always due to nigs. being encouraged around camps by ‘gin-mashers.’.

1. (also gin-shepherder) a white man who enjoys sexual relations with Aborigine women; thus gin-shepherding n., searching for Aborigine women for sexual purposes.

1926		K.S. Prichard Working Bullocks 46: [of a wild horse] Combo, I call him, gin shepherder ... was bred out of an imported mare of Graeme’s went bush years ago, I reckon. Dead spit of her [...] I give him his pick of the brumby gins when they come in. Not that he sticks to one like he might for his name.
1929		K.S. Prichard Coonardoo 54: Sam Geary had been known as a ‘gin-shepherder’ for some time and a family of half-castes swarmed about his verandas.
1945		Baker Aus. Lang. 197: Gin-shepherding [...] taking to the bush in search of an aboriginal woman.
1958		W.E. Harney Content to Lie in the Sun 35: ’Twas here, on one cold night I witnessed my mate going for his life down a lignum ‘pad’, with an irate ‘gin shepherd’ (a white man who lives with a native woman) on his heels.
1975		K. Willey Ghosts of the Big Country 208: Bulwaddy was renowned as a ‘gin shepherd’, which meant he reserved the camp girls for himself.
2002		JoyZine ‘Australian Dict.’ 🌐 gin shepherd – a white man who cohabits with an Aboriginal woman.

2. a white person who attempts to prevent miscegenation between his peers and Aborigine women; thus gin-shepherding n.

1954		T. Ronan Vision Splendid 111: The reason why most of them left was that ‘the Missus was too much of a gin shepherd’.
1958		W.E. Harney Content to Lie in the Sun 54: I returned to camp in time to hear a discussion about great ‘gin-shepherds’ — a bush term for those people who guard their flock of ‘girls’ and so keep them away from their rivals, the ‘gin burglars’.
1971		K. Willey Boss Drover 46: The practice of separating the women from the combos was known as ‘gin-shepherding’. [...] Most gin shepherds had an impossible task.

(Aus.) any form of weak drink, also attrib.

1962		Hogbotel & ffuckes Snatches & Lays 58: ‘May you take a swig of gin’s piss, mistaking it for beer’.
1969		C. Bray Blossom like a Rose 49: ‘Weak as gin’s piss,’ he said. The men laughed.
1972		J. O’Grady It’s Your Shout, Mate! 43: ‘Yeah, but you come from England. That’s gin’s piss country’.
1973		Tharunka (Sydney) 8 Nov. 27/1: ‘You truds [sic], what the fuck’s the gin’s piss?’ .
1982		J.J. Coe Desperate Praise 25: ‘Nope, it'll be stand to soon mate,’ replied Morrison, ‘anyway, that Black Label’s like gin’s piss’ .

(Aus.) a white man who enjoys sexual relations with Aborigine women.

1902

Bulletin (Sydney) 6 Aug. 24/1: The news was brought to the gin-stealer by a boy.

(Aus.) a white man who enjoys sexual relations with Aborigine women.

1914

Sport (Adelaide) 26 June 4/2: Old Jim R., the veteran black gin tamer, was seen making goo-goo eyes at Salby G .

(Aus.) a white man who enjoys sexual relations with Aborigine women.

1891

Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 18 Apr. 3/3: The coolness of the Prodigal saved the evening papers from a sensational par, and spared [...] the life of one of the most assiduous gin-wrestlers in the country.

(Aus.) to waste time.

1979		S. Weller Old Bastards I Have Met 36: For instance, if some old bomb shack is in the road of progress, stick the dozer in. But if anyone starts ginning around with that little church just off King George Square in Brisbane, I’ll fight.
1982		N. Keesing Lily on the Dustbin 149: To someone ‘flapping around’ or over-reacting [she said]: ‘Stop ginning around! You’re like a gin in bloomers!’.

(Aus.) on one’s best behaviour, esp. when slightly nervous, socially uncomfortable.

1959		G. Hamilton Summer Glare 91: Don’t bloody well spar round with it like a gin at a christening.
1982		N. Keesing Lily on the Dustbin 149: You’re carrying on like a gin at a christenng.
2005		posting at qldgeminis.proboards38.com 7 Sept. 🌐 Amazing, how many people just don’t rate Muller. He’s like a gin at a christening in a V8 Supercar IMHO.