Bishop Barker

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(Australia, slang, obsolete) A very tall glass of beer.

1898, Price Warung, Dictionary Ned, in Half-Crown Bob and Tales of the Riverine, quoted in 1970, Bill Wannan, Australian Folklore,

Origin: After Frederic Barker, who became the second Anglican bishop of Sydney, Australia, in 1855 and was noted for his height and for being a teetotaller. The expression became obsolete in the 1870s. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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