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silvertail noun- a member of the privileged class AUSTRALIA, 1891
Derogatory. - We know you want Picnic Races because that’ll bring here a lot of fly-by-night, jumped-up, fifth-rate silver-tails from all over the country to fill your new hotel. — Dymphna Cusack, Picnic Races, p. 33, 1962
- The silvertails always say the unemployed don’t want work[.] — Frank Hardy, The Yarns of Billy Borker, p. 13, 1965
- a prisoner who enjoys privileges AUSTRALIA, 1950
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