wobble, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

wobble n.

1. (Irish) shaving lather [the stirring of the lather before its use].

1997

2. (US drugs, also wobble-weed) phencyclidine [its effects].

1984		Abel Dict. Drug Abuse Terms.
2001		ONDCP Street Terms 22: Wobble weed — PCP.

wobble-shop (n.) [the effects of the liquor one buys there]

an unlicensed liquor store.

1857		‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue.
1866		Letters by an Odd Boy 162: Why, if I keep an unlicensed beer-house [which I don’t], must I describe it as a ‘wobble-shop?’.
1873		Sl. Dict.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 96: Wobble Shop, a shop where beer is sold without license.
1900		Eve. Tel. (Dundee) 1 Sept. 3/6: The language of the London East-end pub [...] A ‘wobble shop’ — A house without a license.

wobbly boots (v.) (also wobble boots)

(Aus.) an image of drunkenness, in phr such as have one’s wobble boots on and have the wobbly boots complex.

1909		Star (Sydney) 22 May 5/4: ‘It’s mv boots; I cannot control them, and they hurt me,’ wailed [a] sandwich man when a constable took him into custody. The wearer of tbe wobbly boots was lined [...] for being drunk.
1922		Mudgee Guardian (NSW) 8 May 6/3: The local cleaner and presser and the man with the wobbling boots were keen spectators.
1948		Mudgee Guardian (NSW) 8 Jan. 7/3: When the beer shortage became so terribly depressing in Mudgee, quite a lot of the hop addicts started mopping up the bottled hard stuff [...] Anyhow, the boys quickly acquired the wobbly boots complex, with, of course, the inevitable hang-over.
1985		R.G. Barrett You Wouldn’t Be Dead for Quids (1989) 103: Stavros well and truly has his wobble boots on.
2012		redhotpie.com.au 13 June 🌐 Make sure you have your wobble boots on, as in so much booze that you have to stagger to the car.