lamington drive

plural lamington drives

1. AustraliaA club or school fundraising event where volunteers make lamingtons for sale.

   They did their best to protect their precious victories, found ways to qualify for a little federal funding, or went back to raffles and lamington drives.

   2003, Mark Peel, The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty, page 143

   2 more examples

   From a modest beginning, relying on ‘funds raised through lamington drives and the sale of home-made jams and cakes by a loyal and dedicated band of childless wives and would-be grandmothers’, Pivet Australia developed into a $5 million dollar complex with a team of scientists and technicians of international renown.

   1992, Robyn Rowland, Living Laboratories: Women and Reproductive Technologies, page 220

   Jan and Fergus are recommending activities like raffles and lamington drives and car washes - which are all well and good but will raise the entrants hardly any money.

   2003, Rebecca Sparrow, The Girl Most Likely, University of Queensland Press, page 70