subs. (Australian).—See quot.
1884. G. A. SALA, ‘Echoes of the Week,’ in Illustrated London News, 4 April. ‘From the Australian Club, Cambridge, yet another correspondent writes: ‘LARRIKINISM is a purposeless, destructive rowdyism, which finds expression, from my own experience, in knocking off the heads of statues in a mason’s yard, and knocking out the eyes of Chinamen with a shanghai (anglicé, catapult).’
