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six bob a day tourist en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio

Etymology

A reference to the soldiers′ pay of six shillings a day.

Meanings

1. (Australia, historical, slang) An Australian soldier serving in World War I, especially a volunteer.
   • He professed no sense of right, no statement of belief: he was a ‘six bob a day tourist’, and even in that age of conviction he was not alone. 1990, Bill Gammage, The Broken Years: Australian soldiers in the Great War, page 11:
   • On brief leaves, as a “six-bob-a-day tourist” during World War I, one had learned to love London,[…]. 1956, F. Eric Hitchins, Tangled Skeins: A Historic Survey of Australian Wool Marketing, page 81:

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tourist