niki-niki

noun

Chewing tobacco.

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Meanings

nounniki-niki (uncountable)
  1. AustraliauncountableChewing tobacco.

    The usual handout was a sugar bag of salt beef and some niki niki tobacco.

    2008, Sheryl McCorry, Diamonds and Dust
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    Mark […] went up to the native camp, chuckling and distributing sticks of niki-niki, or trade tobacco, to a score of black snatching hands.

    1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter II, in Capricornia, page 21

    There were no problems when she ran the nearby Barrow Creek pub and paid her Aboriginal girls $30 a week, with meals and a bit of niki niki (chewing tobacco).

    1985, The Age, Wednesday, May 29, 1985, p. 11
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