larrikinism

[Australian larrikin (q. v.): -ism.) (For def., see extract.) "From the Australian Club, Cambridge, yet another correspondent writes: 'Larrikinism is a purposele , destructive rowdyism, which finds expre ion, 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)'".-G. A. Sala : Echoes . sin, aş; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f larrup