grouter n.
1. a piece of good luck, an unfair advantage; esp. as come in on the grouter
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bulletin (Sydney) 12 Oct. 36/2: ‘Come on; heads a fiver. Now, then, Bill, get it on the grouter.’ / ‘Not me,’ says Bill; ‘I couldn’t win a blessed argument.’. | |
| Digger Dialects 27: grouter — An unfair advantage. | |
| (con. WWI) Gloss. of Sl. [...] in the A.I.F. 1921–1924 (rev. t/s) n.p.: grouter. The acquisition of something for nothing, or on extremely favorable terms. | |
| Holy Smoke 51: He decides he’ll run a grouter on the Lord, and hook his bait. | |
| Ridgey-Didge Oz Jack Lang 29: Grouter Person Takes advantage by coming into a venture at the end of a game. | |
| Macquarie Dict. 🌐 grouternoun 1. an unfair advantage. |
2. as excl.
| Aussie (France) IX Dec. 4/1: gibbo: Vous tray pretty cherrie. / [Kisses Mlle.] / diggers: Grouter! |
In phrases
(Aus.) to have an instance of bad luck.
| Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 6 July 4/4: The Snail was the pea for the next, and, for fear of a grouter, I came one. and home it rolled, leaving me 15s crook. |
(Aus.) to get hold of something through luck rather than judgement, to take unfair advantage of a situation.
| Digger Dialects 27: ‘Come on the grouter’ — gain an unfair advantage. | |
| Western Argus (Kalgoorlie, WA) 15 June 1/4: ‘You come in on the grouter.’ I heard the phrase at a game of two-up. | |
| We Were the Rats 6: Ya never know. I might come in on the grouter. | |
| (con. 1941) Gunner 296: By coming in on the grouter he had augmented the remaining pound of the two Whiteside had given him. | |
| Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 Grouter. 2. As in ‘come in on the grouter’ – join a venture when it is near a successful conclusion. | |
| Macquarie Dict. 🌐 come in on the grouter, a. to take an unfair advantage of a situation. |
(Aus. prison) to grope a woman.
| Aus. Prison Sl. Gloss. 🌐 ‘Go the grouter’, i.e. reach for a woman’s crotch. |