Salvo n.
(Aus.) a Salvation Army member; thus in pl., the Salvation Army; also attrib.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | North Eastern Ensign (Benalla, Vic.) 1 June 2/3: [A] paltry meaness and malevolent spirit, which does not speak much for their Christian feeling engendered since their conversion by the ‘salvos’. | |
 | North Eastern Ensign (Benalla, Vic.) 14 June 2/4: The animal — bless the gentle creature as the ‘salvos’ sometimes say — is then to be given into the custody of Policeman Hyland. | |
| Wkly Times (Melbourne) 1 Feb. 27/4: Feed is poor and scarce, being parched and dried up. As our friends the ‘Salvo’s’ say, ‘send along the rain’. | |
| Warwick Argus (Qld) 17 Feb. 2/5: The local corps of the Salvation Army intend holding their annual harvest festival, commencing tomorrow [...] and the Salvos are looking forward to a successful series of meetings. | |
| Sun. Times (Perth) 7 Oct. 4/7: This Salvo pair are merely filled [...] With spirit of ‘silent’ variety. | |
| Sun. Times (Perth) 13 Sept. 4/6: The wild and whirling sphere of Salvo oratory. | |
| Punch (Melbourne) 9 Jan. 2/4: Descending to our matter-of-fact Melbourne, we find the Salvos are mighty strong, but it is in business, not religion. | |
| Truth (Melbourne) 9 Jan. 2/4: This is Happy Eliza, / The Salvos all prize her. | |
| (con. WWI) Gloss. Sl. [...] in the A.I.F. 1921–1924 (rev. t/s) n.p.: salvoes. Salvation Army. | |
| Four-Legged Lottery 186: All right, you tub-thumping old bastard [...] You’re worse than the Salvos. | |
| Bunch of Ratbags 99: Listen to them Salvos playin’, will yuh; they’d drive a bloke up the wall with a head like I’ve got. | |
| (con. 1930s) ‘Keep Moving’ 63: We’ll have to try and organise relief [...] There’s the ‘salvos’ an’ the Country Women’s Association, the parsons, and the Union might be able to do something. | |
| You Wouldn’t Be Dead for Quids (1989) 47: He always had a bit of a soft spot for the Salvos because of what he’d seen them do around the Cross [...] The little Salvo’s knees buckled . | |
| Dinkum Aussie Dict. 44: Salvo: A member of the Salvation Army of either sex. | |
| Chopper From The Inside 33: The Jew obtained a Salvation Army uniform and hat and collection tin [...] However, an observant eye would have picked one flaw in the Jew’s cunning covert operation. The Salvos don’t collect money at two o’clock in the morning. | |
| Penguin Bk of More Aus. Jokes 258: [He] was listening to the Salvos in Fortitude Valley. For a while he stood there grinning and chiacking them. | |
| Broken Shore (2007) [ebook] Charles shells out to anyone who comes along. Schools, art gallery, the Salvos, the RSL, you name it. | |
| Headland [ebook] It was bright enough when he left the Salvos. |