Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (Aus.) a man who obtains money illegally or dishonourably, esp. as a tipster at a racecourse; thus urging n.

1919		V.J. Marshall World of Living Dead (1969) 129: The race course urger (tip slinger), the magsman [...] never hesitate to express their contempt for the more roughly inclined of the profession.
1922		Smith’s Wkly (Sydney) 2 Dec. 18/1: Brum, as a tale-teller and urger, stands in a class on his own.
1926		J. Doone Timely Tips For New Australians 23: URGER. — A slang word for a tipster.
1930		L. Lower Here’s Luck 54: Tip-slingers, urgers and whisperers slunk like jackals through the crowd.
1949		L. Glassop Lucky Palmer 239: He did not have the smart clothes of the usual racecourse urger.
1954		Sun-Herald 14 Feb. 52/6: ‘Salesmen’ [...] are referred to frequently as ‘urgers,’ an Australian slang term derived from racecourse hangers-on. in London they would undoubtedly qualify for the label of ‘spiv’.
1965		F.J. Hardy Yarns of Billy Borker 82: Did a bit of urging at the races.
1966		J. Holledge Great Aust. Gamble 55: [A]n urger pulled him up at Flemington and blandly asked him for a ‘brick’.
1970		R. Fabian Anatomy of Crime 194: Urger: Con man’s associate.
1985		B. Robinson Aussie Bull 29: Bull really flies from the ‘urgers’ - ‘I’m givin’ yer the good oil, the real drum, it’s a cert, it’s got to fall over to lose’, etc., etc.
1996		J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 90: ‘If you hear of someone being called an ‘urger’ that simply means that this bloke is usually trying to talk you into something, like what to back in the next’.

2. a sponger or idler.

1944		L. Glassop We Were the Rats 31: If he thought I was going to play cricket with a lot of hotel loungers and urgers he had another think coming.
1953		T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 63: But hell, not for me! Not after half the urgers in the A.C.T.
1967		F.J. Hardy in Great Aus. Lover Stories 140: The world’s worst urger, was there, that’s what.
1968		(con. 1928) S. Gore Holy Smoke 93: Just keep your eyes skinned for these urgers that only shout a beer to get yer guts.
2012		(con. 1943) G.S. Manson Irish Fandango [ebook] ‘Half these urgers in ’ere’d shoot their mother for sixpence’.