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schooner noun a 15-fluid-ounce glass of beer AUSTRALIA, 1892 In South Australia the same name is used for a 10-ounce glass of beer.- When we get inside order a couple of schooners while I shake hands with the wife’s best friend! — Barry Humphries, The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie, p. 28, 1968
- The price of a schooner in those days was eighteen pence. — Bill Wannan, Folklore of the Australian Pub, p. 56, 1972
- [W]e are going to take the first copy down to the Steyne at Manly (his current drinking hole) and challenge him to a schooner for every question he can’t answer. — Bazza and Curly, Betcha Wrong!, p. iii, 1990
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