bombo n.1
1. (Aus.) cheap wine, methylated spirits or a combination of the two.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | ‘The Removalists’ Here was Glory 63: I knew ’e liked th’ bombo – even then I got a shock, ’e / Not merely smelt uv plonk, ’e simply stunk! | |
| Courtship of Uncle Henry 25: Four of the pedos got drunk as owls one night bombo got it from the guards. | |
| Argus (Melbourne) 14 Oct. 5/4: ‘Plonk’ and ‘Bombo’ were deplorable names for Australian table wines. | |
| Bobbin Up (1961) 221: Old Plonko Charlie [...] went behind the bobbin boxes, where he kept his bottle of bombo. | |
| With Hooves of Brass 50: Grace caught an unmistakable whiff of Scotty’s bombo - a smell that seemed a concoction of boot-polish and methylated spirits. | |
| Old Familiar Juice (1973) 55: bulla: Purple Para...Tawny Port...sting, steam, bombo,...metho...plonk! | |
| (ref. to 1920s–30s) Boozing out in Melbourne Pubs 15: Those who followed the Bacchic way were variously known as plonk fiends [...] bombo bashers. [Ibid.] 16: The legendary drink of the twenties and thirties was the Fourpenny Dark. This was a stoup of nourishing bombo which, in the great days, was served in a mug with a handle on it. | |
| Lingo 133: The problems associated with over-proof and downright dangerous concoctions are also numerous in colloquial speech: [...] red ned; bombo; chateau cardboard (all terms for poor quality wine). |
2. see bumbo n.1
In compounds
(Aus.) a (usu. street-level) alcoholic.
| Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW) 23 Sept. 7/1: Many Sydney bombo-bashers are derelicts. |
(Aus.) a shanty or public house that sells cheap wine and/or methylated spirits.
| Sun. Times (Perth) 28 Sept. 1s/1: Down and out for years, he spent most of his time around pubs and bombo joints. |